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Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic tells us: "My dad's friend told us there's no such thing as gravity - it's just the weight of air holding us down". Tell us of times you've been floored by abject stupidity. "Whenever I read the Daily Express" is not a valid answer.

(, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 16:48)
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It's bigger
My former lodger was convinced that a way to reduce the size of a document file was to reduce the font size.

I used to think of him as rather bright but I could fill pages of this QOTW with his wisdom. More coming up.
(, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 17:38, 4 replies)
in the bad old days of word document formatting
You *could* make a file bigger by changing the font size a few times, as it sometimes logged the history of formatting changes.
(, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 17:42, closed)
But not the way he thought...
Make the font twice as big and the file was twice as big.
(, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 22:35, closed)
This
has happened to me.
(, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 0:26, closed)

And you can make code compile smaller by deleting all the remark statements, makes debugging a bit of a fiddle though.
(, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 16:49, closed)

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