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From: Howard Brazee on 3 Mar 2006 14:35 On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 13:25:15 -0600, Peter Lacey <lacey(a)mts.net> wrote: >Your way of expressing yourself often sounds like you are. As you >advised somebody else, don't take it seriously. As you state just >above, you don't care anyway. Given that, I don't know why I bother >querying you or responding to what you say. > >BTW: what happened to Robert Wagner? LOL!
From: Alistair on 3 Mar 2006 17:06 Pete Dashwood wrote: > "LX-i" <lxi0007(a)netscape.net> wrote in message > news:25cf6$4407b441$45491d7a$21588(a)KNOLOGY.NET... > > Pete Dashwood wrote: > >> "LX-i" <lxi0007(a)netscape.net> wrote in message > >> news:7ecdf$440658c7$45491d7a$4125(a)KNOLOGY.NET... > >>> Pete Dashwood wrote: > Ask them what the term "chad" means to them. (Or set this as homework..) > > Those who have no idea get a demerit or 5 pressups on the spot. > > Those who say it is a country in Africa get a pass. If they can name the > capital (N'Djamena) they get a merit. > > Pete. I bet you had to look the capital up!
From: Peter Lacey on 3 Mar 2006 17:50 Alistair wrote: > > Pete Dashwood wrote: > > "LX-i" <lxi0007(a)netscape.net> wrote in message > > news:25cf6$4407b441$45491d7a$21588(a)KNOLOGY.NET... > > > Pete Dashwood wrote: > > >> "LX-i" <lxi0007(a)netscape.net> wrote in message > > >> news:7ecdf$440658c7$45491d7a$4125(a)KNOLOGY.NET... > > >>> Pete Dashwood wrote: > > Ask them what the term "chad" means to them. (Or set this as homework..) > > > > Those who have no idea get a demerit or 5 pressups on the spot. > > > > Those who say it is a country in Africa get a pass. If they can name the > > capital (N'Djamena) they get a merit. > > > > Pete. > > I bet you had to look the capital up! I thought it was Chad/Fort Lamy then Burkina Fasa/N'Djamena now... PL
From: LX-i on 3 Mar 2006 18:06 Pete Dashwood wrote: > "LX-i" <lxi0007(a)netscape.net> wrote in message > news:25cf6$4407b441$45491d7a$21588(a)KNOLOGY.NET... >> Pete Dashwood wrote: >>> "LX-i" <lxi0007(a)netscape.net> wrote in message >>> news:7ecdf$440658c7$45491d7a$4125(a)KNOLOGY.NET... >>>> Pete Dashwood wrote: >>>>> I have worked on many sites and no-one has ever asked why I start >>>>> levels at 12. >>>> I've been asked about it, because I adopted it. :) I like it... >>>> >>> "Imitation is the highest form of flattery." :-) >>> >>> I consider it an honour. >>> >>> Hope it never has to be used in earnest... >> heh... :) Yeah, if we go back to cards, we're all screwed! >> >> It's funny - each Friday (by management dictate) we have about an hour of >> training. Since I'm the senior military guy in the shop now, I end up >> doing a lot of it, and last week we did ECL (Executive Control Language - >> DOS for the Unisys 2200). >> >> Anyway, there's a statement called @PCH, which will punch a deck of cards >> for an input text element. The younger guys I was training thought that >> was funny. (Turns out that this processor *now* actually punches a >> "virtual" deck, that programs can read by reading a device assigned to >> "card-reader".) >> >> It was just funny - none of them had even seen a Hollerith card (or even >> heard the term Hollerith, for that matter). And I'm not even that old! >> :) > > Ask them what the term "chad" means to them. (Or set this as homework..) Are you forgetting the fun we had over here in the 2000 election? > Those who have no idea get a demerit or 5 pressups on the spot. > > Those who say it is a country in Africa get a pass. If they can name the > capital (N'Djamena) they get a merit. heh... > If they say it is the stuff that comes out of a punch card when you punch > it, they get a beer. > (Anyone who knows what the chad that DOESN'T come out, but just bulges > because the punch didn't cut the cardboard properly, is called, (pregnant > chad) gets two beers.) The term used during the 2000 election was "hanging chad", although some folks called them "pregnant chads". :) > Those who say it is a guy looking over a wall and saying "Wot! No...." get > absolute respect, the drink of their choice, and a salute. (These are > ranking officers who were in the UK during the last war....:-)) I guess I'd get two beers... :) -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ / \ / ~ Live from Montgomery, AL! ~ ~ / \/ o ~ ~ ~ / /\ - | ~ daniel(a)thebelowdomain ~ ~ _____ / \ | ~ http://www.djs-consulting.com ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ GEEKCODE 3.12 GCS/IT d s-:+ a C++ L++ E--- W++ N++ o? K- w$ ~ ~ !O M-- V PS+ PE++ Y? !PGP t+ 5? X+ R* tv b+ DI++ D+ G- e ~ ~ h---- r+++ z++++ ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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In article <9t4Of.97159$B94.83082(a)pd7tw3no>, James J. Gavan <jgavandeletethis(a)shaw.ca> wrote: [snip] >Who >was that French guy with the loom ? My memory is, admittedly, porous but I recall his name being Jacard or Jacquard or something like that. DD |