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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004356 More actions · Answer 1

TomThomson - Sunday, August 26, 2018 11:58 AM
I reckon Glayva would be better than Drambuie. (After all, "Very good" is surely better than "the satisfied drink", and those are the English translations of those two misspelt (for English use) Gaelic drink names ("GlÃ© mhath" and "An dram buidheach"). (I suspect that James Ross, who renamed the drink "Drambuie" in about 1885, thought that "buidheach" meant the same as "a sasaicheas" - "which satisfies" -, or perhaps "riaraichte" - which can mean "satisfactory", but it doesn't now and didn't during the 19th century).

I don't even know what "Glayva" is. I do know that I like Drambuie, though, regardless of the bastardizing of the real name. 😀

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jasona.work SSC Guru Points: 50117 More actions · Answer 2

Luis Cazares - Sunday, August 26, 2018 7:42 PM
Jason,
I'd love to invite you a beer while you're in Atlanta.We missed the date to get one day passes for DragonCon, but I'm still wondering if we would actually go to the whole event (my wife is not nearly as geek as I am). I'll send contact details on a private message.

Cool beans!
We're getting in Wednesday, although we've got a meet up with some folks at 8pm that day (From the "DragonCon over 40" group...)

SQLDCH SSChampion Points: 11630 More actions · Answer 3

We're looking for more players for our SSC fantasy football league, run thru Yahoo. If you're interested, post a reply to this thread:

https://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/1914846/Fantasy-Football-2018?PageIndex=5

First come, first served. You'll obviously need a Yahoo account, also.

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398886 More actions · Answer 4

Yahoo?

Is that still a thing?

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Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 5

SQLDCH - Tuesday, August 28, 2018 7:42 AM
We're looking for more players for our SSC fantasy football league, run thru Yahoo. If you're interested, post a reply to this thread:
https://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/1914846/Fantasy-Football-2018?PageIndex=5
First come, first served. You'll obviously need a Yahoo account, also.

I'm not even sure if my yahoo account is still valid.

Luis C.
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TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 6

Jeff Moden - Sunday, August 26, 2018 8:33 PM
TomThomson - Sunday, August 26, 2018 11:58 AM
I reckon Glayva would be better than Drambuie. (After all, "Very good" is surely better than "the satisfied drink", and those are the English translations of those two misspelt (for English use) Gaelic drink names ("GlÃ© mhath" and "An dram buidheach"). (I suspect that James Ross, who renamed the drink "Drambuie" in about 1885, thought that "buidheach" meant the same as "a sasaicheas" - "which satisfies" -, or perhaps "riaraichte" - which can mean "satisfactory", but it doesn't now and didn't during the 19th century).
I don't even know what "Glayva" is. I do know that I like Drambuie, though, regardless of the bastardizing of the real name. 😀

I drink and like both Glayva and Drambuie. They are very similar - the core of each is Scots malt whisky plus honey plus spices . Until I started spending a lot of my time in Spain I always had a bottle of each in the house, but with the ability to have a decent supply of good red wine for a fraction of the cost in England I tend to buy spirits and liqueurs much less often than before (except cheap whisky for making Gaelic coffee for my wife).

Glayva is spicier (more cinnamon than there is in Drambuie, more other spices too) and sweeter (more honey) plus some fruit - Seville oranges and mediterranear clementines are crushed into the blending vats for flavours to be picked up during maturation. Drambuie has verious herbs instead of fruits. The two have similar mixtures of Scottish malt whiskys. Glayva (35% alcohol) is a little less alcoholic than Drambuie (40% alcohol), so one can drink a little more of it without getting too drunk to drive - or too drunk to write sensible answers to the questions in the forums here. Glayva seems to me to work better appplied to deserts than Drambuie- it does well on ice-cream, profiteroles, and several other deserts .

Glayva (although it's only been around for about 70 years) has held the world record for number of Gold awards for liqueur in the International Wine and Spirits Competition for quite a while now (it was the first liqueur to have won more than 5, and it's stayed in front of the rest ever since).

Tom

TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 7

Luis Cazares - Tuesday, August 28, 2018 8:30 AM
I'm not even sure if my yahoo account is still valid.

Yahoo has become part of Oath now, and you have to accept a privacy policy that is effectively a "lack of privacy" policy if you want your account to continue to work.

Tom

Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287026 More actions · Answer 8

TomThomson - Tuesday, August 28, 2018 9:13 AM
Yahoo has become part of Oath now, and you have to accept a privacy policy that is effectively a "lack of privacy" policy if you want your account to continue to work.

Heh - whether your account still works or not, rest assured that it's been hacked several times.

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Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 9

Ed Wagner - Tuesday, August 28, 2018 10:51 AM
Heh - whether your account still works or not, rest assured that it's been hacked several times.

Then it's a good thing that all mail on it is gone now.

Luis C.
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TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 10

Luis Cazares - Tuesday, August 28, 2018 11:18 AM
Then it's a good thing that all mail on it is gone now.

If ony that were true.

Vast numbers of customers of British Telecom who use BT as their internet provider are stuck with an ancient BT-Yahoo deal so that to log in to their email accounts they have to log in to yahoo. Given how badly interaction between Yahoo's junk and BT's junk works it's often necesary to log in to Yahoo to fix some stupid problem.

A long time ago BT was going to introduce a new email service of its own, and move all those who used btinternet.com email addreses attached to Yahoo accounts onto it. I think it did introduce the new system, but it certainly didn't provide any way for existing customers to use it.

Tom

Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 11

TomThomson - Tuesday, August 28, 2018 1:24 PM
If ony that were true.
Vast numbers of customers of British Telecom who use BT as their internet provider are stuck with an ancient BT-Yahoo deal so that to log in to their email accounts they have to log in to yahoo. Given how badly interaction between Yahoo's junk and BT's junk works it's often necesary to log in to Yahoo to fix some stupid problem.

I was referring to my account. I know some people still use Yahoo for mail.

Luis C.
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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 12

Luis Cazares - Tuesday, August 28, 2018 1:34 PM
I was referring to my account. I know some people still use Yahoo for mail.

haha my mother in law still uses AOL....not even kidding. They haven't used them for internet access in forever but still pay a monthly fee to keep her email address. :laugh:

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004356 More actions · Answer 13

Ed Wagner - Tuesday, August 28, 2018 10:51 AM
TomThomson - Tuesday, August 28, 2018 9:13 AM
Yahoo has become part of Oath now, and you have to accept a privacy policy that is effectively a "lack of privacy" policy if you want your account to continue to work.
Heh - whether your account still works or not, rest assured that it's been hacked several times.

Yeah... like GMAIL and O365 have never been hacked. 😉

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004356 More actions · Answer 14

Sean Lange - Tuesday, August 28, 2018 1:42 PM
haha my mother in law still uses AOL....not even kidding. They haven't used them for internet access in forever but still pay a monthly fee to keep her email address. :laugh:

Email addresses have been transferrable for at least 10 years.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 15

TomThomson - Tuesday, August 28, 2018 9:13 AM
Yahoo has become part of Oath now, and you have to accept a privacy policy that is effectively a "lack of privacy" policy if you want your account to continue to work.

Considering all I use it for is the SSCFFL, not a big problem.