>>>>Does that gobbledegook mean "That was my intended pun already"?
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>>>Without "already", yes.
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>>The "already" was in the hugely meaningful Judo-US usage, as in "hasn't that been amply illustrated?", "isn't that obvious?".
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>Still don't like it :).
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>>>>>>You seem to have been a bit inattentive for a wee moment there, eh?
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>>I'm coming at these threads only piecmeal now, not monitoring them all day, as of old. Thus I get the "over 400 messages" dialogue and have to selectively skim, on interest, pettiness, tennis-bat-back-and-forth-back-atchaz", meandering, etc. So, yeah, not exactly paying close attn. :-)
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>Hey, attention is cheap, but it's not free. Still got to pay it. As we say, if you pass on the bridge, you pay on the ćuprija (which is the same, just a Turkish word for a bridge). I usually translate this "you don't pay the bridge toll, but pay to cross the river",

Actually: The River Severn estruary separates Wales from southern England and there's a huge long bridge. You pay a toll of £7 entering Wales but none returning. The Welsh like to joke that you pay to enter their country but getting into England is free. (You could get in without paying but it would mean a detour of 100s of miles around the estuary).

>but I thought a more literal translation would be in order, to distract you from filling your spreadsheet (need the columns? I still have it somewhere) where you put the links to the places where you looked up for a good source of payable work, and what did you tell them. While you're at it, open a new worksheet in it, and put good answers to specific questions ("As for .ASP and ASP.NET, been doing that a bit in the kindergarten, then did other kids' ASP.NET homework throughout my way to PhD, when it became a bit of a bore eventually, having not found a decent challenge in the field, which I hope I may find here").

Thanks for the ideas :-)