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Re: Anyone old enough to remember this?

guy — Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:21 pm

Author: guy

Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:21 pm

Or, as Captain James T Kirk never quite said,
"Set phasers to pun!"

Re: Anyone old enough to remember this?

nelz — Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:41 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:41 am

A good pun is its own reword.

Re: Anyone old enough to remember this?

towy71 — Tue Sep 15, 2009 11:16 pm

Author: towy71

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 11:16 pm

No punishment is too great for you guys

Re: Anyone old enough to remember this?

catgate — Tue Sep 15, 2009 10:35 pm

Author: catgate

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 10:35 pm

Bazza wrote:

Hi catgate...

> That comes as no surprise. They say she was more than
> AMPle. She used to breed OHMing pigeons and was a
> medalist at pole VOLTing. WATT a girl!

She married someone called HENRY WEBER who was
INDUCTED for MAINSlaughter. His ADMITTANCE of this
felony resulted in a CHARGE and subsequent
DISPLACEMENT into a FARADAY SCREEN. She had POWER
over him and only had to FLUX those muscles of hers
from her pole VOLTing such that he would become all
PERMEABLE to her MAGNETIC advances...

Someone else take over... ;oD

You are TRANSFORMING this topic into something OVER LOADed with ridicule. It is with some RELUCTANCE that I think think we should get back to discussing CURRENT affairs. Something that I have the CAPACITY to understand.

Re: Anyone old enough to remember this?

Bazza — Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:55 pm

Author: Bazza

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:55 pm

Hi catgate...

> That comes as no surprise. They say she was more than
> AMPle. She used to breed OHMing pigeons and was a
> medalist at pole VOLTing. WATT a girl!

She married someone called HENRY WEBER who was
INDUCTED for MAINSlaughter. His ADMITTANCE of this
felony resulted in a CHARGE and subsequent
DISPLACEMENT into a FARADAY SCREEN. She had POWER
over him and only had to FLUX those muscles of hers
from her pole VOLTing such that he would become all
PERMEABLE to her MAGNETIC advances...

Someone else take over... ;oD

Re: Anyone old enough to remember this?

catgate — Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:25 pm

Author: catgate

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:25 pm

LoL wrote:

catgate wrote:

That comes as no surprise. They say she was more than AMPle. She used to breed OHMing pigeons and was a medalist at pole VOLTing. WATT a girl!

Was that before, or after, the sex-change?

I thought it was just the use of one of these eBay 350195771983.

Re: Anyone old enough to remember this?

LoL — Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:46 pm

Author: LoL

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:46 pm

catgate wrote:

That comes as no surprise. They say she was more than AMPle. She used to breed OHMing pigeons and was a medalist at pole VOLTing. WATT a girl!

Was that before, or after, the sex-change?

Re: Anyone old enough to remember this?

catgate — Tue Sep 15, 2009 4:51 pm

Author: catgate

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 4:51 pm

guy wrote:

LoL wrote:

catgate wrote:

How is he these days? Have you seen him down at the club recently? I did hear that he had started squeeking again, every time he coughs.

Apparently that started after the accident - I heard he got flattened or something

What, you mean the incident with his trans sister?

That comes as no surprise. They say she was more than AMPle. She used to breed OHMing pigeons and was a medalist at pole VOLTing. WATT a girl!

Re: Anyone old enough to remember this?

guy — Tue Sep 15, 2009 4:26 pm

Author: guy

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 4:26 pm

LoL wrote:

catgate wrote:

How is he these days? Have you seen him down at the club recently? I did hear that he had started squeeking again, every time he coughs.

Apparently that started after the accident - I heard he got flattened or something

What, you mean the incident with his trans sister?

Re: Anyone old enough to remember this?

LoL — Tue Sep 15, 2009 12:20 am

Author: LoL

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 12:20 am

catgate wrote:

How is he these days? Have you seen him down at the club recently? I did hear that he had started squeeking again, every time he coughs.

Apparently that started after the accident - I heard he got flattened or something

Re: Anyone old enough to remember this?

catgate — Mon Sep 14, 2009 10:43 pm

Author: catgate

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 10:43 pm

LoL wrote:

guy wrote:

I had to use bits of cathode ray.

I bet his parents were annoyed!

How is he these days? Have you seen him down at the club recently? I did hear that he had started squeeking again, every time he coughs.

Re: Anyone old enough to remember this?

LoL — Wed Sep 02, 2009 9:47 pm

Author: LoL

Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 9:47 pm

guy wrote:

I had to use bits of cathode ray.

I bet his parents were annoyed!

Re: Anyone old enough to remember this?

guy — Sun Aug 30, 2009 4:47 pm

Author: guy

Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 4:47 pm

Taking up the old carpet, I found a Dilbert cartoon from 1993:

"When I started programming, we didn't have any of these sissy 'icons' and 'windows'.
All we had were zeros and ones -- and sometimes we didn't even have ones.
I wrote an entire database program using only zeros."

"You had zeros? We had to use the letter 'O'."

How lucky they were - I had to use bits of cathode ray.

Re: Anyone old enough to remember this?

AndyBaxman — Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:00 am

Author: AndyBaxman

Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:00 am

First computer was a ZX80, in kit form. Could never get the cassette interface to work, so had to type everything in by hand on that horrible membrane keyboard.

Then moved onto an EACA Video Genie (EG3003), a TRS80 clone, followed by a Spectrum and Amstrad 6128 (coded a MIDI sequencer in Z80 Assembly language for that), then onto PCs. Been diddling with Linux since about '98.

I do remember ads for the SC/MP based Scrumpi in ETI. Seem to remember them having a sheep theme (Ewes my massive 1Kbyte of RAM) and features images of a yokel in a smock with an ear of wheat hanging out of his mouth.

Re: Anyone old enough to remember this?

nordle — Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:12 pm

Author: nordle

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:12 pm

guy wrote:

And now AMD 64-bit homebuilds and Debian. Born again, the eternal noob.

Amen brother! I wonder what is the collective term for a bunch of eternal noobs.