Alfred, Karen,

Did you get the point, perhaps more appropriately, the context of of today's "Off the Mark?"
https://www.gocomics.com/offthemark/2022/12/22

Yes , Alfred; it's painful.

I had two crushed vertebrae a couple of years ago, and I've really shrunk in body height.

Add to that, severe heart valve leakage - leaves me out of breath and fatigued.

As I'm 87 in 60 days, it's not surprising!

Merry Xmas!

Here's a fascinating thought for you, William, in respect of

and

I did a thought experiment of wondering if these thought experiments were actually analogue experiments.

(one) You presumably tabulated the results, and (two) your thoughts, or the entries, the data, in the table represented the real value of a flip, or whatever.

Discuss!!

Re: Wooden start!

My wife says a prominent retailer in our town used to display a wooden  bike as as decoration, yonks ago. Other wooden things too, but beyond detail memory.

Joe,   thanks for passing these on.  They absolutely appeal to my sense of punning.

Just go to profile settings and set the time to actual in your area. Change that when DST starts and ends.

Cheese in a restaurant is served as several bits and is on a board because normally a portion of a chosen block is cut for serving.  A wooden board will not blunt the knife, which for cheese, usually has to go right down to the surface. A ceramic plate will eventually spoil the knife, and its dish shape makes it difficult to cut right down to the surface.

I am not sure what is intrinsically humorous about bits of cheese sitting on the board. Whether they were replaced due to age spoiling before being used up by serving depends on the restauranteur.

The expectation of a cheese board depends partly on ones upbringing, I guess.  I have been abroad very many times on business, and while it is not so in all countries, in France the offer of cheese is common. BTW, they eat it after the main course, le plat, and before the dessert - to finish the wine taken with the starter, l'entrée.

I suspect that you, William, do not usually eat cheese with a main meal, and the idea of bits of differently coloured cheese sitting on a board  is somehow funny. Me, I find the idea mouthwatering. I especially like, as they are available round here, Brie, Munster, Camembert, Port Salut, which are white. I love blue cheeses, Stilton, and St Agur from the Auvergne. Good yellow well-matured English Cheddar, for me is for breakfast. The available English Cheddars don't taste the same as the New Zealand Cheddars.

An anecdote about cheese? Well, last evening, I had opened a rather well ripe Brie. I had cut the end off the wedge, and had to perch the wedge on the rim of a Munster cardboard disc pack. After a while, the very soft cheese wa s_l_o_w_l_y oozing out of its sleeve. It reminded me of the experiment, I believe is in Australia, where a funnel full of pitch is slowly dripping, a drop taking many decades. It seems the last time a drop fell, it during the night, and sadly no-one saw it happen.

This, otherwise interesting post, started as a request to confirm that GMT/DST switching is not automatic.
Please can anyone verify that?

Joe, the derivation of sak does not depend on order, as it is merely a part of an anagram involving another word.

Your clue, I thinks, digs a little too deep.
Using Kas, Turkey is calling up unusual geographic knowledge.

Compare another clue, in yesterday's Daily Telegraph (DT), in part: "In California."
The part answer was LA, which would be more in the nature of common knowledge.

However the whole word in the solution was Ladrone (I'll not explain the latter part), which is a word meaning a thief, not commonly used, nor found in all major dictionaries, which is  annoying. It means a thief or highwayman, the word coming from  the Spanish, apparently used only when referring to South America. While it is in the Chambers 20th Century dictionary (which many years ago was rated the best for DT crosswords), and is in the full Shorter Oxford (the two volume small print version) it is not in the large Collins.

EDIT>
Ladrone does appear in my 1967 Funk and Wagnalls dictionary which is to be expected as an American word. I believe the F & W dictionary is a major US source, or am I taking the wrong cue from the Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in  Show - Very Interesting.

BTW, I have an application "The Sage" which has dictionary lists, anagrams, wild card, etc, etc. Runs in W10.

Thanks, Geoff, but these instructions don't cater for accidental deletion of text.

What I need would be, in the nature of things, instructions relating to the post writing environment, the sort of thing you would find in the toolbar above the text insert writing panel.