Halloween

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  • Good Gift Steve

    HAPPY HALLOWEEN DAY 🙂

  • Personally I love Halloween and all its traditions and lineage etc etc .. Its up there with guy fawkes and bonfire night

    ~si

  • Nobody has even noticed that I wore my fat old man costume today...

  • Ha!! First one I've got right for quite a while :w00t:

  • Once upon a nightmare query, while I pondered, weak and weary,

    Over many a quaint and curious part of code,

    While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a hacking,

    Someone gently hacking, hacking at my network node.

    "'Tis some colleague", I muttered, "knocking at my network node -

    Only this," I did decode.

    Ah, DISTINCT I remember, was the key word in that code,

    And each separate statement in that fact, was the purpose of that hack,

    Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to follow,

    Another book I need to borrow - borrow for another data mining crack,

    For the rare and faintly used, as a developer not amused,

    And fear I couldn't keep on track.

    And then there came the hacking, hacking louder than before,

    "Sir", said I, "Or Madam, use the correct password I implore"

    But the fact is that I was napping, and so gently they came a hacking,

    That in my slumber, I was even dumber,

    That scarce was sure it true - I opened wide the door,

    And in stepped the hacker, where he remaineth evermore.

    But before I could stutter, with heart a little flutter,

    In there stepped the hacker, like Bill Gates in height and stature,

    "No!" said I, "That will erase my database!"

    Too late the command was entered, and my resignation would be tendered,

    And the hacker, the little slacker,

    Remaineth evermore.



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  • Ouch! a 13 point hit on my QOD average. that will teach me to to be tempted to answer questions on overblown american traditions.

    you hang stockings on your mantle for halloween? :unsure:

    I guess I got tricked rather than treated.

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  • One of our halloween traditions IS to play practical jokes on people, of the spooky variety. I got in trouble as a kid by playing jokes on my sister. Things like spiders in her cereal, bugs in her bed, etc.

  • I think the best activity for this Halloween would be to learn how to spell activity.

  • Hey, practical jokes on Halloween are acceptable. It is TRICK or treat, and sometimes we'd rather of the treat of playing a trick!

  • Yes! I got a question right!

    Funny how "Shooting off fireworks" is getting 3% at the moment. 🙂

    Sorry - need to update this post to say:

    Happy Halloween, everybody!

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    A SQL query walks into a bar and sees two tables. He walks up to them and asks, "Can I join you?"
    Ref.: http://tkyte.blogspot.com/2009/02/sql-joke.html

  • webrunner (10/31/2008)


    Yes! I got a question right!

    Funny how "Shooting off fireworks" is getting 3% at the moment. 🙂

    possibly as some of the UK based dbas' are speculating how the holiday is celebrated in the states .. I was torn with the fireworks with thinking about the mexican day of the dead etc etc (or even devils night arson in detroit) but went for the traditon we seem to have importerd the most.. e.g the dressing up

  • Fortunately, Devil's Night in Detroit is now a thing of the past.

  • Don Preston (10/31/2008)


    Fortunately, Devil's Night in Detroit is now a thing of the past.

    What was Devil's Night?

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    A SQL query walks into a bar and sees two tables. He walks up to them and asks, "Can I join you?"
    Ref.: http://tkyte.blogspot.com/2009/02/sql-joke.html

  • I've spent my entire life in Detroit and from the time I was a kid in the 1960s, the night before Halloween was called Devil's Night. On Devil's Night, every miscreant kid roamed the streets and apparently tried to burn the city down. I didn't learn until much later that the tradition was unique to Detroit. My parents wouldn't even consider letting me out to roam with my friends on Devil's Night so I can't attest to specifics but arsons were typically over 1000 that night. It's difficult to say what percentage were insurance scams also.

    As I said earlier though, about 10 years ago, the mayor at that time, Dennis Archer, organized community groups to put a stop to it and much of this generation of Detroit children have never heard of it....thankfully.

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