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So, one of my coworkers and I periodically attempt to converse in Spanish, via IM. I found this particular exchange rather amusing, when piped through babelfish.

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That would be a Michael Jackson doll with a My Little Pony head on it.
The ascot is key.
(it’s resting on a piece of sculpture from Ten Thousand Villages. Pony is from Meijer. Michael Jackson is from Ebay. (Just in case you want to build your own.))

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If you look closely, Abe has just a little rock in him, what with the mohawk and all.
It looks much more impressive in person. Not pictured: he’s throwing devil horns below the rim.

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Potentially.
Example:
SELECT t.* FROM table t WHERE t.id IN (SELECT DISTINCT f.id FROM table f, table e WHERE f.something = e.somethingelse AND f.someotherthing = e.somethingdifferent)

In Postgres and MySQL, IN seems to be fairly efficient and treats the subselect as a simple list. In SQL Server, it appears that IN does some kind of massive join, or […]

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I’m messing with a new theme, right now.
Not sure if I’ll keep it, cause if you use IE less than 6 it doesn’t work well. That’s 15% of my viewership out the window. I think it may look at least readable in its current incarnation… we’ll see.

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