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> “Mr. Lawrence testified he built the home on Lot 114 instead of Lot 115 because he counted out the lots using the telephone poles,” the court order read. “But he built the home on the wrong side of the telephone pole.”

Had he been a programmer he would know to count from 0 :)




Or : measure twice, cut once for all us woodworkers.



Maybe he programmed in Octave/MATLAB


Yet another tragic victim of 1-indexing. But nothing tops Jesus, born in year 1.




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