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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

@Warspite1: A classic example of an "INP" from one of our most prolific spambots.

England expects that every man will do his duty. Horatio Nelson October 1805

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ORIGINAL: sprior

Oh dear, don't Google "Boing" and then look at the images. Not sure if they're spring loaded or pneumatic.

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Has anyone heard (or seen) Nik lately? i am guessing he is moving from Fleattle to Houston (or its vicinity) but it has been 8 days since he's posted on the forum...

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Tech Support | Allentown, PA, USA

(I work engineering support late in the evening.)

Me: “Pennsylvania Support Center. How may I help you?”

Caller: “The cleaning crew just came through my office, and now my mouse doesn’t work. The cursor just jumps all over the screen randomly when I move it. They broke my mouse. I need a new one.”

Me: “You have a SPARCstation with an optical mouse, correct?”

Caller: “Yes, with the cool glass mouse-pad.”

(Old-school optical mice used to require special reflective mouse-pads with grids etched into their surfaces. To increase tracking resolution, the vertical and horizontal grids had slightly different spacing.)

Me: “Did the cleaning crew wipe down your desk?”

Caller: “Yes.”

Me: “Did they move your mouse-pad?”

Caller: “What does that have to do with anything?”

Me: “Did your mouse-pad get rotated? Is the long edge of the mouse-pad now parallel to the edge of your desk?”

Caller: “I really don’t see why that’s relevant. I just want a new mouse!”

Me: “The orientation of the mouse-pad matters. The–”

(The caller cuts me off and starts to yell. I realize that I can actually hear his voice coming from down the hall.)

Caller: “Listen! Just open a ticket and have someone bring me a new mouse. I don’t have time for this. I design chips, so I know what I’m talking about. I probably designed the chip in the phone you’re stuck answering all day!”

(I take off my headset, walk down the hall, and walk into his office up to his desk.)

Caller: “…so don’t try to bulls*** me with, oh. Hold on, someone is in my office.”

(I reach down, and rotate his mouse-pad 90 degrees. I move the mouse, and the cursor happily moves around the screen as expected. I walk out of his office, back down the hall, sit down at my desk, and put my headset back on.)

Caller: *silence*

Me: “Thank you for calling Pennsylvania Support Center. I trust I have resolved your case.”

Caller: *silence*

Me: “You will be receiving your ticket number via email. Thank you.”

Caller: *click*

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Tithe,

Sheesh, miss a couple of days and you have to back up 3 pages!  Wow!

To ne fair, you missed nothing but squabbling.

No he didn't!

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ORIGINAL: Grollub

All is well. Haven't found/seen the dental floss girl yet, though.

Mynok, thanks for the tip concerning Patrick Rothfuss. Took a chance and bought both books before I went here. Fantastic storytelling. Have finished the first book, halfway through the second.

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http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_internet.shtml

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ORIGINAL: Kwik E Mart

back from Aruba tithe!!!

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ORIGINAL: USS America

Looks fantastic, KEM!  We're in the early stages of planning a week in the Turks for August, after my wife's second job contract is over.  

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

Double Faber = Warspite

England expects that every man will do his duty. Horatio Nelson October 1805

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ORIGINAL: thegreatwent

Tithe

Been a bit busy lately, always nice to know some folks are having fun.

Closest I've gotten to a vacation lately is trying to cook foreign (to me) food. Had good luck recently with a Moroccan Chicken Tangine and a Scandinavian Salmon. The salmon dish was very tasty. Basically one toasts dill, coriander, fennel and cumin seeds. Roll the salmon filet in the seeds, put in the fridge for a couple hours. Bake and serve with sour cream seasoned with some aquavit, caraway seed and chervil. Very tasty.

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Has anyone heard (or seen) Nik lately? i am guessing he is moving from Fleattle to Houston (or its vicinity) but it has been 8 days since he's posted on the forum...

I have been talking to Nik on the phone every couple of days. He is in Texas. He is ok.

Thanks for the update, Bruce.

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ORIGINAL: JWE

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...hmmm...those were quite large...is this any better?

Where is that Kwik E ?
Looks like some sweet place in Mexico, except for the Belgian beer menu.

hyatt regency, aruba...guilty on the belgian beer pic...it was a nice little sidewalk place across the street from the hotel...the Corsendonk was my favorite, and of course, it took two or three tries to make that decision...the plan was to have one of each from the menu, but alas, my constitution is not up to snuff for european alcohol content in beers......<hic>

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

I'm pretty sure GFU is a keeper.

Opened her gift today. A signed print of Geoff Hunt's HMS Temeraire.

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Between Chickens and Grapes:

The number of genes that humans have was estimated at 6.7 million in 1984... current estimate is around 22000... chickens have ~16736 protein encoding genes, and grapes 30,434...

Shoot... we are arguably less advanced than grapes...

I forget the number of genes, but IIRC plants like wheat (a grass) have at least 2 or 3 times the number of chromosomes as humans. Now, cows eat grass, so in relation to us...

So, are you trying to say that the FEWER genes a species has the more advanced it is? That would put chickens ahead of us... and make Chickenboy possibly the most advanced person here (evolutionarily speaking...)

And that would also imply E. coli and the influenza virus have us beat by a large margin (4,169 and 11 genes, respectively).

No! I'm saying that Gary Larson (The far Side) was right - cows are the dominant species!

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We may not have the short skirts or shapely legs

says who?

I stand corrected. At least one of us wears short skirts. Still no word on the shapely legs, however.

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Per, I'm trying to decide if I dislike you versus Kwik E Mart more these days...it's a very tough choice.

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

Duly recorded in my list of noteworthy quotations:

"Stinkin' time traveling cat stole my idea!! " - R. Trapasso

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

"What do you mean I have done nothing all day? - I completed a Faber"

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Hi all,

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But Leo is usually around at this time

Look what happens when I have to set up big hall at work for whole day seminar...


Leo "Apollo11"

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Oh right - like Rutt and Tuke in Disney's Brother Bear - they kept saying eh? after every other sentence.....*

No mine was more of a - never mind a (with a shrug of the shoulders).

Ah - French Canadian, then!

Warspite1

How dare you sir - I don't mind being called Canadian, but French!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO

(with apologies to Gladatt )

No apologies admitted
every offense of anything closely or not apparented to something english will be dealt by dual, in the field, early morning !
i choose weapons !

all my beloved ennemis (Martin or Simon for example) know that i am serious: you will have to deal with a rather poor french humor, prepare to defend with good words or bad jokes !!

( of course )

Mental image of Per in viking horned helmet holding giant battle axe....and Eric in beret holding fresh baguette.

you would be surprised what a baguette could do

(and my ancestors where close enemies to Per, sorry man, i have seeds on the other side of the Sund, wich mean...same side as Kristian .....ok, forget about it, i keep the ridiculous french ancestors )

Keep in mind, theyre probably still upset over that Bernadotte business.

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Mental image of Per in viking horned helmet

A bit like this:

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Hmmm ... only got myself updated on the first 5 pages I missed. Another 13 to go and I have to get away for dinner no. Ah, then I have something to do when I get back.

Later, friends.

Naw. It's like trying to drink orange juice in a thunderstorm. You stop drinking and it's just full again. By the time you come back from dinner, we'll have at least 5 pages more spam for your viewing pleasure. Even if I have to have a quad faber to get 'em there.

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Hmmm ... only got myself updated on the first 5 pages I missed. Another 13 to go and I have to get away for dinner no. Ah, then I have something to do when I get back.

Later, friends.

Naw. It's like trying to drink orange juice in a thunderstorm. You stop drinking and it's just full again. By the time you come back from dinner, we'll have at least 5 pages more spam for your viewing pleasure. Even if I have to have a quad faber to get 'em there.

So where are those five pages of drivel for me to sift, you lazy git?

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Double Faber = Warspite

Warspite1

Thank-you very much.