Laidlaw's Rule
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@Atazhaia said in Laidlaw's Rule:
Why did the first book available on my desk have the longest opening sentence?
And then the murders began.
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Jenkins sat on the cold, metallic bench in the Crows' locker room. And then the murders began
Pretty accurate for this story.
In July of 2003, I was invited to Portland, Oregon, by my friend and fellow O'Reilly Author, Randal Schwartz, to attend the release party for his newest book, Learning Perl Objects, References & Modules. And then the murders began.
ok
Q: How does dice rolling work? And then the murders began.
Sure.
Like all variations of poker, no-limit hold 'em looks like a card game. And then the murders began.
Eh... Edit: This actually sounds ok now.
It happened every year, was almost a ritual. And then the murders began.
I'm not sure whether to include introductions or not. This seems to say no.
The trial was irretrievably over; everything that could be said had been said, but he had never doubted that he would lose. And then the murders began.
Much better.
December 2005 was when I first started working at the computer store in my town. And then the murders began.
Accurate.
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@Jaloopa said in Laidlaw's Rule:
@pydsigner said in Laidlaw's Rule:
Now it's underaged trans-hookers?
It's OK if they look 27
Much like Scott Adams, I prefer hookers who are 27 but look 17.
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Time to do it with news articles:
Plans for a second independence referendum "must be made in Scotland", Nicola Sturgeon has said. And then the murders began.
Parliament's backing for the government's Brexit bill will be a "defining moment for our whole country", Theresa May has told MPs. And then the murders began.
New Zealand coach Steve Hansen says he is not playing media mind games, after Eddie Jones reacted suspiciously to the Kiwi's praise of England's record-equalling run. And then the murders began.
And some not-so-news articles:
Coffee drinking could be overtaking the office tea round as workers search for a caffeine jolt, but the hunt for a clean tea mug still continues in many offices. And then the murders began.
Even Ed Sheeran thinks there's something wrong with the singles chart. And then the murders began.
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@RaceProUK said in Laidlaw's Rule:
Time to do it with news articles:
Oh, yeah!
At the start of the first week since 2009 in which Preet Bharara will not be the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Manhattan residents are jamming local markets in search of emergency supplies of food and water. And then the murders began.
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Yeah... no.
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The 80's were a time of great technological marvels. And then the murders began
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More front page ones
A few months ago, Hannes shared with us some recycled code. And then the murders began
Fresh off an internship, Trace landed his first full-time job performing customer service and administration at a large company. And then the murders began
After more than 3 decades in our field, I find my self in the position of being able to afford to retire, but not yet actually ready to retire. And then the murders began
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@RaceProUK said in Laidlaw's Rule:
Yeah... no.
Yeah, you gotta go through twitter to get by the WSJ paywall.
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@boomzilla
The murders need to start with the schmuck that wrote that first line. What a serious load of horsecrap. And the news media wonder why some people look askance at the media and treat them as uncredible.
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@izzion said in Laidlaw's Rule:
@boomzilla
The murders need to start with the schmuck that wrote that first line. What a serious load of horsecrap. And the news media wonder why some people look askance at the media and treat them as uncredible.No, exactly the opposite. It's an opinion column that's often a bit tongue in cheek. He's making fun of all the people going crazy about Bharara getting fired by taking advantage of people preparing for the storm. And then the murders began.
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Front page story from the BBC
The inhabitants of Rjukan in southern Norway have a complex relationship with the Sun. “More than other places I’ve lived, they like to talk about the Sun: when it’s coming back, if it’s a long time since they’ve seen the Sun,” says artist Martin Andersen. “They’re a little obsessed with it.” And then the murders began.
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@SlackerD TIL Norwegians have an obsession with a British tabloid newspaper.
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In the Beginning was the Command Line:
About twenty years ago Jobs and Wozniak, the founders of Apple, came up with the very strange idea of selling information processing machines for use in the home. And then the murders began.
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In the excellent Paul Newman legal thriller, Absence of Malice, Wilford Brimley faced a misbehaving Justice Department prosecutor who refused to resign. And then the murders began.
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The primroses were over. And then the murders began.
Actual truth considering the source.
Unpublished authors often cite the case of John Kennedy Toole, who, unable to find a publisher for his novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, took his own life. And the the murders began.
Vengeful spirit of an author scorned?
My old pal Matt Feazell called the other day. And then the murders began.
I think I'll just keep my distance from this Matt.
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Let me try with some books I found in boxes in the desk my computer is on.
Welcome to Microsoft ® Windows ™, the software that transforms the way you use your personal computer. And then the murders begin.
Welcome to Mac OS X, the world’s most advanced operating system. And then the murders begin.
MUNCHKIN is a tasteless parody game which brings you the essence of the dungeon-crawling experience … without all that messy roleplaying! And then the murders begin.
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Closest English book:
It was 7 minutes after midnight. And then the murders began.
(This book actually starts with a death, interestingly enough)
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Andrew nearly choked on his chicken noodle soup. And then the murders began.
- Human Heat Sink
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It was a rather pathetic little tower. The round structure rose about three stories off the ground-the bare minimum to really qualify as a wizard’s tower-made of rough-hewn stone held together by some crude mortar. And then the murders began.
(From The Lay of Paul Twister. The opening chapter does, in fact, end with someone becoming dead.)
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I was born in the house that my father built. And then the murders began.
-- RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon
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Maybellene, why can't you be true
And then the murders began.
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"The ticking of the conference room's antique clock was deafening as the Hereditary President of the People's Republic of Haven stared at his military cabinet. And then the murders began."
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As the pain haze began to thin out, Ticos Cay was somewhat surprised to find he was still on his feet. And then the murders began.
Nope, not an improvement. (James H. Schmitz, The Demon Breed.)
It was night in that part of the world of Mezmiali--deep night, for much of the sky was obscured by the dense cosmic cloud called the Pit, little more than two light years away. And then the murders began.
As a matter of fact, the murders did pretty much begin at that point. But adding the line? Fail. (Schmitz, The Searcher.)
A green-winged, downy thing as big as a hen fluttered along the hillside to a point directly above Cord's head and hovered there, twenty feet above him. And then the murders began.
Hmmmm...yeah, that pumps it up a bit. Kind of a spastic jerk of a plot twist, though, can only award ½. (Schmitz, Grandpa.)
½ out of 3, not so good. Guess Schmitz is not the right kind of fiction.
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The story so far: In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. And then the murders began.
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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@loopback0 said in Laidlaw's Rule:
The story so far: In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. And then the murders began.
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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A heavy sigh left you, the human as you stared out the window of your bedroom into the dark, moonless night sky, wishing it was lavender in color and the moon was out. And then the murders began.
Huh, it works!
Now to read the thread...
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@masonwheeler said in Laidlaw's Rule:
I said "But all that changed when the fire dragon attacked!" Had everyone (except the parents) cracking up laughing.
And then the murders began...
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All caught up! And then the murderings happened...
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I wonder if it works with memos.
"It has come to my attention that Department of Defense (DoD) Components are denying contractor employees access to defense facilities and classified information because the contractor employees have a personnel security clearance based on an out-of-scope investigation. And then the murders began."
snerk
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With the rise of test-driven development (TDD) in the 1990s as
part of the eXtreme Programming (XP) movement, the role of
example-based testing became fixed into the culture of software
development. And then the murders began.
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From the front page again:
Sacha received custody of a legacy Python API, and was tasked with implementing a fresh version of it. And then the murders began.
Dan has inherited a pile of Objective-C. And then the murders began.
Dima had just finished her Masters in electrical engineering, and was eagerly seeking out a job. And then the murders began.
Ah, the grand old Dictionary/Map structure. And then the murders began.
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From the front page of Ars Technica:
SpaceX founder Elon Musk criticizes NASA and Congress in public only very rarely—which isn't surprising given that NASA has supported his company with more than $3 billion in contracts for cargo and crew delivery to the International Space Station. And then the murders began.
In the wake of recommendations that were part of a recent study of its red-light cameras, the Chicago Department of Transportation has agreed to immediately increase the so-called “grace period”—the time between when a traffic light turns red to when a ticket is automatically issued. And then the murders began.
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From today's phone call to the plumbers:
"What do you mean you didn't put us on the schedule?" And then the murders began.
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And then the murders began.
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@izzion spent his afternoon binary searching through result sets to find which column is generating all the differences between the two tables. And then the murders began.
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The GNU Manifesto (which appears below) was written by Richard Stallman in 1985 to ask for support in developing the GNU operating system. And then the murders began.
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@antiquarian TIL I'm the same age as the GNU Manifesto.
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Hey Friends! Thanks for visiting our Patreon page! <3 And then the murders began.
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@RaceProUK said in Laidlaw's Rule:
TIL I'm the same age as the GNU Manifesto.
And then the murders began.
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@Luhmann said in Laidlaw's Rule:
@RaceProUK said in Laidlaw's Rule:
TIL I'm the same age as the GNU Manifesto.
And then the murders began.
murders @Luhmann
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Now I feel cold
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Lucas1 alts confirmed! And then the murders began.
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Berekoed!