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A recent period without the internet has allowed me to verify that I have lost little of the blazing speed with which I once impressed no one at the ancient and noble game of minesweeper.

I'm the fastest person I know, and no one cares.

Yesterday I spent a couple of hours and set high scores on all three levels of the game on my install of xp. I hadn't played in years, but it all came back.
And now there was no doubt that the trees were really moving - moving in and out through one another as if in a complicated country dance. ('And I suppose,' thought Lucy, 'when trees dance, it must be a very, very country dance indeed.')

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In my capacity as Internet-Sworn Minister,

I award you the Title "Admiral of the Minesweepers".

This is a Nominal title only and no pecuniary stipend is associated (sorry).

Well Done!
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I can eat in my sleep, even soup if you give me a straw.
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jim stone wrote:I can eat in my sleep, even soup if you give me a straw.
My wife's entire family can (and do) do that, and though it's never been mentioned, I believe that drinking (heavily) is part of the capability.
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I can break wind with great rolling thunder. :D
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Joseph E. Smith wrote:I can break wind with great rolling thunder. :D
Hold on, let me get set up first...
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Good ole minesweeper.

I once had a version that used hexagons instead of squares.
Here's a page with Exotic Minesweeper: http://www.itshareware.com/popularlist-w_hexagon.htm
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I had a computer repair teacher that could rip through minesweeper on expert in 30 seconds. We timed him.
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Joseph E. Smith wrote:I can break wind with great rolling thunder. :D
Oh yeah? I can wiggle one ear at a time. I can make one ear
go forward while the other goes backwards. I can wiggle them
in circles in different directions. So there!
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Jim Stone wrote:I can wiggle one ear at a time. I can make one ear go forward while the other goes backwards. I can wiggle them in circles in different directions.
But can you put them back on in the dark? :D

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I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan...

'Cause I'm a wo....nevermind.
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I don't know if it qualifies as a useless skill or not, but I can make maille armour.
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Cofaidh wrote:I don't know if it qualifies as a useless skill or not, but I can make maille armour.
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I'm a master of the Withering Glance.
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Post by I.D.10-t »

For those that are unfamiliar to the game here is the wikipedia entry Minesweeper

It even has the cheat codes.
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