Viscount Tenby, a teenager when Lloyd George died in 1945, remembered his grandfather as "fun" with a real interest in people matched by few politicians.
Oh, now that is fun: a real phone in a watch.
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Mixing with a long motorised fader and real transport controls is certainly more fun than clicking at an icon with a mouse (or pushing the space bar, which starts and stops most software sequencers).
Shazam incorporated it into its core technology, improving its accuracy, and added a layer of animation and visualization to create a fun and engaging way to see the lyrics in real-time with the song.
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Mersenne primes are most relevant to number theory, but most participants join Gimps for the fun of having a role in real research - and the chance of finding a new Mersenne prime.
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Sneaking along railings and leaping from perch to perch is fun, but the enemies rarely provide a real challenge if you fail at stealth.
Which just raises the question: Is this for real, or is this a Jesse Ventura moment, all fun and feathers and wild surprise but not the kind of earthquake that redraws the continents?
The club said QuickQuid has also made a commitment to invest in its community initiatives and "bring some real fun to matchdays".
Ms Russell, a local mother who started the Save St Helier Facebook group, said the fun day was a "great day out with a real purpose".
The real fun begins at 90, 000 rubles, when you don a spacesuit and experience a simulated launch, flight and landing in a Soyuz rocket, complete with Russian- language capsule controls.
Now what was once was a fun computer-science experiment in natural language processing is becoming a real business for IBM and Wellpoint, which is the exclusive reseller of the technology for now.
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It happened again very publicly just last week, when Chris Lee, a family values Republican congressman from upstate New York, discovered it wasn't such a great idea to respond to a woman's Craigslist personal ad by e-mailing her a photo of himself, shirtless, using his own real name but claiming he was a lobbyist (and "a very fit fun classy guy" too).
Yet he admits that while he takes his work seriously, in "real life" he likes nothing more than having fun and relaxing with a bottle of wine.
My other 40 minutes goes to Forbes.com, Real Clear Politics, The Drudge Report and, for personal fun, a few airplane websites, such Aero-News.
Broadway "is just a fun place to have your attention, " says Benerofe, a New York commercial real estate developer and an angel investor in shows.
But while quickly scrolling through a bunch of photos is fun, the same activity with lengthy and poorly edited amateur videos can get real old, real fast.
Some of it is fun to look at or experience, but much of it has real-world applications that only a handful are exploring.
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If you have a kid that is intrigued by puzzles and you want to teach him real-world skills in thinking logically while having fun at the same time, you might want to consider buying him or her one or more puzzle boxes as a gift.
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