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How do I pass this password in the correct form to MySQL? [more inside]
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How do you make hash browns so that they don't all stick together?
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Consider the following: As an American, you visit Amsterdam and partake of the (legal) local smokeable delicacies. You return to the States, apply for a job, and obviously fail the drug test. What happens? [more inside]
posted by Who_Am_I on Dec 4, 2004 - 27 answers