The Idiots have Won.
Mike Andrews
> There is something seriously-wrong with a world when the
> carrying case for a laptop PC comes with an instruction-
> booklet.
> There is something more-seriously-wrong with a world when
> the aforementioned instruction-booklet is 32 pages long.
Gotta have room for "Do Not Eat This" and similar cautions in each
of about 95 distinct and different languages, including Telugu,
Whydah, and Gullah. Otherwise the terrists will have won.
--
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means necessary'.
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Paul Tomblin
>There is something seriously-wrong with a world when the
>carrying case for a laptop PC comes with an instruction-
>booklet.
>
>There is something more-seriously-wrong with a world when
>the aforementioned instruction-booklet is 32 pages long.
Shall we just call you "Tanuki the Sane" from now on?
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group I have registered the traversal order of. I can merely point at you
and your popup dialogue will be unmapped unless XmNautoUnmanage is False."
Tai
> There is something seriously-wrong with a world when the
> carrying case for a laptop PC comes with an instruction-
> booklet.
What is worse are chairs that come with an instructional
diskette.
> There is something more-seriously-wrong with a world when
> the aforementioned instruction-booklet is 32 pages long.
What was worse was that the chair software was incompatible
with our main software, so we had to run around telling everyone not
to install it.
-Tai
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Satya
> What is worse are chairs that come with an instructional
> diskette.
Right, time to reboot[0] the universal mainframe (I forget what the EPU
crew calls it, but there is one).
[0] Whatever you big-iron people call that.
--
Satya.
Rick Dickinson
<rp...@yahoo.co.uk.invalid> is alleged to have written:
>In article <bc5b4c$m4c$1...@allhats.xcski.com>,
> ptom...@xcski.com (Paul Tomblin) wrote:
>
>> In a previous article, Tanuki the Raccoon-dog
>> <tanukigram@canis-^Hmajor.da^Hemon.co.uk> said:
>> >There is something seriously-wrong with a world when the
>> >carrying case for a laptop PC comes with an instruction-
>> >booklet.
>> >
>> >There is something more-seriously-wrong with a world when
>> >the aforementioned instruction-booklet is 32 pages long.
>>
>> Shall we just call you "Tanuki the Sane" from now on?
>
>Can you help me with this toothpick?
That's a "Stealth-Mini-Vamp-Staker-2000", not a toothpick!
- Rick "Oops, sorry. I crossed the streams." Dickinson
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<ing...@cathouse.bofh.se> wrote:
>IPL, I think (or possibly re-IPL, but taht sounds wrong)
>
>//Ingvar
I like "bounce", it's good visually
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>
IPL, yes.
I don't recall re-IPL though...
...harks back to days of IBM 3090
I only ever did that once, where we had to swap over frequency convertors,
and MG sets (once every 6 months for preventative maintenance) So a
complete shutdown, and then Initial Program Load.
--
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I am pink, therefore I am spam
David P. Murphy
> On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 09:08:36 +0100, "Richard P. Grant"
> <rp...@yahoo.co.uk.invalid> is alleged to have written:
>>Can you help me with this toothpick?
> That's a "Stealth-Mini-Vamp-Staker-2000", not a toothpick!
If you're following that story without any problem,
you're a better man than I. And for $DEITY's sake, Pete,
would you *please* drop Ian's guest art?? If I want
Bruno-style drawing, I know where to go already.
ok
dpm
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David P. Murphy
> In article <OAGd7AAU...@canismajor.demon.co.uk>,
> Tanuki the Raccoon-dog wrote:
>> There is something seriously-wrong with a world when the
>> carrying case for a laptop PC comes with an instruction-
>> booklet.
> My mother recently bought a stepladder which came with an
> instructional videotape.
SWMBO bought a new backpack from <SHAME>L. L. Bean</SHAME>
which to my delight contained an instructional card
(not a videotape or booklet, but good enough). I made sure
to peruse said help aid, as I have been reading this thread,
and this wonderful gem was first on the list:
"Buy a backpack appropriate to your height and weight"
An amount of assistance beyond the capacity of humans to measure.
> - U. Axen, CptS 450
EXPN?
Paul Tomblin
>Rick Dickinson <r...@notesguy.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 09:08:36 +0100, "Richard P. Grant"
>> <rp...@yahoo.co.uk.invalid> is alleged to have written:
>
>>>Can you help me with this toothpick?
>
>> That's a "Stealth-Mini-Vamp-Staker-2000", not a toothpick!
>
>If you're following that story without any problem,
>you're a better man than I. And for $DEITY's sake, Pete,
I'm having trouble keeping all the characters straight. I thought it was
just me.
>would you *please* drop Ian's guest art?? If I want
>Bruno-style drawing, I know where to go already.
Is that where the DoP stuff is coming from? Guest art? No wonder it
sucks.
--
Paul Tomblin <ptom...@xcski.com>, not speaking for anybody
"But what...is it good for?"
--Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM commenting on
the microchip, 1968.
Paul Tomblin
>> In article <OAGd7AAU...@canismajor.demon.co.uk>,
>> Tanuki the Raccoon-dog wrote:
>
>>> There is something seriously-wrong with a world when the
>>> carrying case for a laptop PC comes with an instruction-
>>> booklet.
>
>> My mother recently bought a stepladder which came with an
>> instructional videotape.
>
>SWMBO bought a new backpack from <SHAME>L. L. Bean</SHAME>
>which to my delight contained an instructional card
>(not a videotape or booklet, but good enough). I made sure
I have a hat that came with an instruction card. Ok, granted, it was a
Tilley, so it deserves it, but still...
--
Paul Tomblin <ptom...@xcski.com>, not speaking for anybody
"real programmers don't really understand why they get paid for
doing stuff they'd do in their spare time anyway; if they're smart,
they never let -that- out."
David P. Murphy
> In a previous article, d...@myths.com (David P. Murphy) said:
>>would you *please* drop Ian's guest art?? If I want
>>Bruno-style drawing, I know where to go already.
> Is that where the DoP stuff is coming from? Guest art? No wonder it
> sucks.
http://www.brunothebandit.com/ is Ian's own strip, which isn't
quite as bad as him drawing Sluggy-stuff because I can simply not go there.
Michael Hudson
> Rick Dickinson <r...@notesguy.com> wrote:
> > That's a "Stealth-Mini-Vamp-Staker-2000", not a toothpick!
>
> If you're following that story without any problem,
> you're a better man than I. And for $DEITY's sake, Pete,
> would you *please* drop Ian's guest art?? If I want
> Bruno-style drawing, I know where to go already.
I've given up for a time in the hope that if I go back and read
through the last couple of months in one sitting it might make some
sense. Realistic? Worth the bother?
Cheers,
M.
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Mike Andrews
> IPL, I think (or possibly re-IPL, but taht sounds wrong)
Only because you've looked at it too long. Any word or string, when
examined too long, looks wrong. It is in fact, as you say, [RE-]IPL.
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David P. Murphy
>> If you're following that story without any problem,
>> you're a better man than I. And for $DEITY's sake, Pete,
>> would you *please* drop Ian's guest art?? If I want
>> Bruno-style drawing, I know where to go already.
> I've given up for a time in the hope that if I go back and read
> through the last couple of months in one sitting it might make some
> sense. Realistic? Worth the bother?
I'd say that's a good idea; wish I'd thought of it. In fact,
it seems to be winding down, because $SPOILER1 and $SPOILER2.
Give it another week or so.
Eric Schwartz
> quite as bad as him drawing Sluggy-stuff because I can simply not go
> there.
Personally, I've gone quite off Bruno the Bandit, and am rather
enjoying the DoP story. It's the current main story I'm having
trouble keeping track of.
-=Eric
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Mark C. Langston
> d...@myths.com (David P. Murphy) writes:
>
>
> What's wrong with L.L.Bean?
>
Though the styles aren't always my first choice for comfort-wear, I'll
give them this: They take their ilfetime guarantee seriously. We've
returned items years later for a variety of reasons, and they've
always been replaced, no questions asked. That alone makes buying
certain items though them worth it.
--
Mark C. Langston
ma...@bitshift.org
Systems & Network Admin
Kenneth Brody
>
> While pretending to be roadkill on the InfoBahn, <tanukigram@canis-^Hmajor.da^Hemon.co.uk> scrawled:
> > There is something seriously-wrong with a world when the
> > carrying case for a laptop PC comes with an instruction-
> > booklet.
>
> What is worse are chairs that come with an instructional
> diskette.
VCR's that come with a tape on how to set it up.
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>
> On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 21:03:15 +0000 (UTC), Tai <t...@urd.spidernet.to> wrote:
> > What is worse are chairs that come with an instructional
> > diskette.
>
> Right, time to reboot[0] the universal mainframe (I forget what the EPU
> crew calls it, but there is one).
Can one actually IPL RL?
[0] NMF
st...@madcelt.org
> In a previous article, d...@myths.com (David P. Murphy) said:
>>Rick Dickinson <r...@notesguy.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 09:08:36 +0100, "Richard P. Grant"
>>> <rp...@yahoo.co.uk.invalid> is alleged to have written:
>>
>>>>Can you help me with this toothpick?
>>
>>> That's a "Stealth-Mini-Vamp-Staker-2000", not a toothpick!
>>
>>If you're following that story without any problem,
>>you're a better man than I. And for $DEITY's sake, Pete,
> I'm having trouble keeping all the characters straight. I thought it was
> just me.
I haven't been having any trouble following the story, but then I used to
read XMen during the Chris Claremont "Editor? I don't need no fucking editor."
years. The not-so-good old days, when it was not unusual for Marvel to get a
guest writer in every couple of years to bring at least some of the plot lines
to a close.
>>would you *please* drop Ian's guest art?? If I want
>>Bruno-style drawing, I know where to go already.
Amen to the Brother!
--
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"All mushrooms are edible. However, some of them only once"
Ino!~
WDOA
Murphy) wrote:
>Steve Gravrock <grav...@cheetah.it.wsu.edu> wrote:
>> In article <OAGd7AAU...@canismajor.demon.co.uk>,
>> Tanuki the Raccoon-dog wrote:
>
>>> There is something seriously-wrong with a world when the
>>> carrying case for a laptop PC comes with an instruction-
>>> booklet.
>
>> My mother recently bought a stepladder which came with an
>> instructional videotape.
>
>SWMBO bought a new backpack from <SHAME>L. L. Bean</SHAME>
>which to my delight contained an instructional card
>(not a videotape or booklet, but good enough). I made sure
>to peruse said help aid, as I have been reading this thread,
>and this wonderful gem was first on the list:
>
> "Buy a backpack appropriate to your height and weight"
>
>An amount of assistance beyond the capacity of humans to measure.
>
>> - U. Axen, CptS 450
>
>EXPN?
>
>ok
>dpm
Would hat be a backpack full of feather or cannonballs
david parsons
David P. Murphy <d...@myths.com> wrote:
>Michael Hudson <m...@python.net> wrote:
>> d...@myths.com (David P. Murphy) writes:
>
>>> If you're following that story without any problem,
>>> you're a better man than I. And for $DEITY's sake, Pete,
>>> would you *please* drop Ian's guest art?? If I want
>>> Bruno-style drawing, I know where to go already.
>
>> I've given up for a time in the hope that if I go back and read
>> through the last couple of months in one sitting it might make some
>> sense. Realistic? Worth the bother?
>
>I'd say that's a good idea; wish I'd thought of it. In fact,
>it seems to be winding down, because $SPOILER1 and $SPOILER2.
>Give it another week or so.
Or, apparently, another two days or so, for another one of the
repidly-becoming-an-Abrams-trademark abrupt endings that manages to
leave about a dozen new loose ends lying around without actually
resolving the current storyline.
____
david parsons \bi/ It's the webcomic spaghetti factory!
\/
Mike Andrews
> Satya wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 21:03:15 +0000 (UTC), Tai <t...@urd.spidernet.to> wrote:
> > > What is worse are chairs that come with an instructional
> > > diskette.
> >
> > Right, time to reboot[0] the universal mainframe (I forget what the EPU
> > crew calls it, but there is one).
> Can one actually IPL RL?
It appears to have happened at least once. Rather an explosive
event.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
at 09:01 PM, Satya <sat...@satyaonline.cjb.net> said:
>Right, time to reboot[0] the universal mainframe (I forget what the
>EPU crew calls it, but there is one).
>[0] Whatever you big-iron people call that.
That depends very much on which big iron you are thinking of.
International Blue Mother uses the term IPL, CDC[1] used to use the
term dead start, and there are a few more floating around.
[1] No, not the one in Atlanta; this one is defunct, and published
some of its diseases rather than controlling them.
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kesi...@math.ttu.edu
: If you're following that story without any problem,
: you're a better man than I.
At least it's not as confusing as _Pibgorn_[0]--I'm just along for
the ride on that one. I think I have a rough idea where the _Sluggy_
story is, but I'm definitely ready for something new.
And hey! new _Absurd_Notions_.
Mike Looney
> Paul Tomblin <ptom...@xcski.com> wrote:
>> In a previous article, d...@myths.com (David P. Murphy) said:
>
>>>would you *please* drop Ian's guest art?? If I want
>>>Bruno-style drawing, I know where to go already.
>
>> Is that where the DoP stuff is coming from? Guest art? No wonder it
>> sucks.
>
> http://www.brunothebandit.com/ is Ian's own strip, which isn't
> quite as bad as him drawing Sluggy-stuff because I can simply not go there.
Am I the only geek on the planet that not only doens't like
Sluggy but really hates it? I mean really really loath, hate and despise level
hates?
For that matter not real fond of Bruno The Bandit either.
It's not like I don't read enough on line comics
(http://www.spellbooksoftware.com/comix.html for my list)
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Mike Looney
> David P. Murphy <d...@myths.com> wrote:
>
>: If you're following that story without any problem,
>: you're a better man than I.
>
> At least it's not as confusing as _Pibgorn_[0]--I'm just along for
> the ride on that one.
No shit. That has got to be the _oddest_ main stream comic I know of.
Also the comic with the least accurate "about the cast" page I know of.
Stuart Lamble
Mike Looney wrote:
> Am I the only geek on the planet that not only doens't like
> Sluggy but really hates it? I mean really really loath, hate and
> despise level hates?
>
> For that matter not real fond of Bruno The Bandit either.
>
> It's not like I don't read enough on line comics
> (http://www.spellbooksoftware.com/comix.html for my list)
You don't like Sluggy, and you're reading UserFriendly?
That comic strip hasn't been funny for at least two years, by my
count... although the count's a little inaccurate, since I haven't any
records of when it came off my daily bookmarks list. (To be fair, there
might've been one or two strips that were funny... but as a daily strip,
it's not worth my time, IMO.)
My list, FWIW:
Sluggy
Ubersoft
Absurd Notions
Clan of the Cats
Bruno the Bandit (although it's come close to losing me of late)
Ozy and Millie
GPF
Sheldon (also come close)
Helen
Freefall
Red Meat
Kevin & Kell
PvPonline
For Better or for Worse
Wizard of Id
Dilbert
Off the Mark
Rockwood
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> My list, FWIW:
[snip]
Two lists, and still no mention of "Too Much Coffee Man"?
David P. Murphy
You could get me to read _Kevin and Kell_ if you bribed me,
but not until then, and it would take doubling my DSL bandwidth
or something equally valuable.
David P. Murphy
> : If you're following that story without any problem,
> : you're a better man than I.
> At least it's not as confusing as _Pibgorn_[0]--I'm just along for
> the ride on that one.
Oh, I can clear *that* up for you, no problem:
The present Pibgorn story opened when Drusilla, airborne, was fired
upon by a Russian pilot in a MiG 29. Putting him in a dream state,
she brought both jet and pilot down, with no fatalities, and went
on her way. In an attempt to make amends for destroying Geoff's piano,
Drusilla then purloined an old grand and brought it to Geoff's house
as a gift. Almost immediately, however, a poltergeist emerged from
the instrument and attacked Geoff, Dru and Pibgorn. During the struggle,
Pibgorn was thrown into a temporal vortex that deposited her in
Regency England. There she found the young woman, Jane Fellchurch,
whose ghost she had been fighting. Dru, still locked in supernatural
battle, induced a dream state in Geoff and entered it to escape the
potent onslaughts of the ghost. However, Dru, badly wounded, found that
the poltergeist could pursue her into Geoff's dreamscape. Pibgorn,
meanwhile, discovered that Jane was suffering from a fresh wound on
the neck. Administering a magical baiser de la fée, Pibgorn cured it.
All this was observed from a distance by a man known as Mr. Tudge,
a business associate of a Mr. Willincoe. (Mr. Willincoe, it transpired,
excites in Jane great pangs of affection. Mr. Tudge, only repugnance.)
The following evening, Jane brought Pib to meet Mr. Willincoe (in the
company of the ubiquitous Mr. Tudge). At the end of the evening, Pib
took her leave by foot under a moonlit sky. Out of sight, Pib reverted
to her fairy identity, unaware that Tudge was following at a distance.
Meanwhile, Jane, in her bedchamber, was surrounded and overwhelmed by
an eldritch and clinging mist. Pib appeared on the wing to find Jane
prostrate and unconscious, her neck seeping with a fresh wound.
Instants later, the mist surrounded Pib as well, coalescing in the form
of a vampire. In the ensuing struggle with the demon, however, Pib
succeeded in subduing it long enough to escape. And with the sunrise,
the vampire vanished. Pib meanwhile took flight to seek out her early
19th-century counterpart, a younger Pibgorn toting dewdrops and
wondering why life as a fairy must be so dull. With little explanation,
the older Pib grabbed up the younger Pib and spirited her back to Jane's
bedchamber, where she healed Jane by administering the baiser de la Fée.
Older Pib then explained to the younger that she pressed her into service
anticipating that additional magical powers would be necessary to combat
the vampire when it returned. Concurrently, Drusilla managed to elude
Jane's spirit, leaving her caught up in Geoff's dream. Awake, Dru found
the temporal vortex in the piano, and dove in. Moments later, disguised
in regency period clothing, Dru encountered Mr. Tudge...and recognized him.
Simple, neh?
Greg Andrews
>
>
>Simple, neh?
>
Ah, I see we've found your "Drooling Fanboy" button. That's nice.
-Greg
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-- Tanuki
David P. Murphy
>>Oh, I can clear *that* up for you, no problem:
>>
> [39 lashes^Wlines of snippage]
>>
>>Simple, neh?
> Ah, I see we've found your "Drooling Fanboy" button. That's nice.
No, you see that I found the "Our Story So Far" button
and copy&pasted the text from
http://www.comics.com/comics/pibgorn/html/about_comic.html#story
I've never heard of this strip before today, and I see no reason
to add it to the overburdened complexity which is my life.
Greg Andrews
>Greg Andrews <ge...@panix.com> wrote:
>> d...@myths.com (David P. Murphy) writes:
>
>>>Oh, I can clear *that* up for you, no problem:
>>>
>> [39 lashes^Wlines of snippage]
>>>
>>>Simple, neh?
>
>> Ah, I see we've found your "Drooling Fanboy" button. That's nice.
>
>No, you see that I found the "Our Story So Far" button
>and copy&pasted the text from
> http://www.comics.com/comics/pibgorn/html/about_comic.html#story
>
>I've never heard of this strip before today, and I see no reason
>to add it to the overburdened complexity which is my life.
>
Yet you decided to add it to the group's life by vomiting the
contents here rather than just the URL. Good on yer, mate.
Now we owe you one.
Paul Tomblin
>to add it to the overburdened complexity which is my life.
Agreed. I read web comics (and paper comics) in the morning while my
brain and body does their long slow IPL. I don't need something like
that.
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"By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began
to suspect 'Hungry' ..."
-- Gary Larson, "The Far Side"
Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner
> I have an Akubra that came with a charming little booklet explaining
> the hows and whys of felt care. A good thing, too -- this is getting
> close to being Lost Knowledge, like the use of a straight razor[0].
*sigh* Tell me about it. I was recently looking for some
information on leather care and polish, and the two most useful things I
found - very nearly the _only_ useful stuff I found - were a page written
by a bottom on how to give your top a proper boot polishing, and a page
on taking care of your bullwhip. And it was good stuff, too! But the
problem is that only people with, shall we say, an emotional connection to
their leather goods, seem to know anything about how to take care of them
any more. What does the rest of the world do when their stuff gets dirty
or breaks down or whatever? I know, don't tell me: takes it to a
professional or throws it away.
But don't bother searching the web for "men's leather boots";
you will not find anything useful. Unless you're into that sort of thing.
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Joe Zeff
<jdw+ALLSPAM...@panix.com> wrote:
>What does the rest of the world do when their stuff gets dirty
>or breaks down or whatever? I know, don't tell me: takes it to a
>professional or throws it away.
"Ending is better than mending."
--
Joe Zeff
The Guy With the Sideburns
If I want a puzzle, I'll buy one in a box.
http://www.lasfs.org http://home.earthlink.net/~sidebrnz
Chris Suslowicz
Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner <jdw+ALLSPAM...@panix.com> wrote:
> Damian James <dam...@qimr.edu.au> wrote:
> > I have an Akubra that came with a charming little booklet explaining
> > the hows and whys of felt care. A good thing, too -- this is getting
> > close to being Lost Knowledge, like the use of a straight razor[0].
>
> *sigh* Tell me about it. I was recently looking for some
> information on leather care and polish, and the two most useful things I
> found - very nearly the _only_ useful stuff I found - were a page written
> by a bottom on how to give your top a proper boot polishing, and a page
> on taking care of your bullwhip.
On which subject: A friend related the story of how a someone asked her
where they could buy/borrow/hire a bullwhip (because their son wanted to
go as Indiana Jones to the school fancy dress party). "I don't know, offhand,
but I can find out for you." <various phone calls were made, contacts
asked, and a list compiled> Having some idea of what other things these
shops were likely to sell, the information was passed on with the caution:
"I don't think your son should go shopping for this, you'll need to buy it
for him."
At their next meeting, the parent had a seriously boggled expression, and
explained that a suitable whip had indeed been purchased (and for a fraction
of the price quoted by the costume shop), but how _on_Earth_ did she know
about places like that? (Oh, and thanks for the warning about not taking my
son along to pick it). "Well, it _is_ in the middle of the Plymouth red-light
district, so I had an idea what kind of shop it might be. And I just asked
friends who do costuming and stuff..."
Truly all knowledge is contained in Fandom.
Chris.
--
"Your pitiful weapons are no match for ours! People of Mars, surrender!"
"Uh, this isn't Mars, this is Earth."
"Earth? Earth-with-nuclear-weapons Earth?"
"Yeah."
"Friend!"
Kevin
<jdw+ALLSPAM...@panix.com> wrote:
> *sigh* Tell me about it. I was recently looking for some
>information on leather care and polish, and the two most useful things I
>found - very nearly the _only_ useful stuff I found - were a page written
>by a bottom on how to give your top a proper boot polishing, and a page
>on taking care of your bullwhip. And it was good stuff, too! But the
>problem is that only people with, shall we say, an emotional connection to
>their leather goods, seem to know anything about how to take care of them
>any more. What does the rest of the world do when their stuff gets dirty
>or breaks down or whatever? I know, don't tell me: takes it to a
>professional or throws it away.
> But don't bother searching the web for "men's leather boots";
>you will not find anything useful. Unless you're into that sort of thing.
It's all in the key words... I thought maybe removing the gender would help.
leather boot care
http://www.leatherworldtech.com/leathercare.aspx
http://www.scarpa.co.uk/bootcare/ for UK
or
http://www.scarpa-us.com/2001/beta_boot_care.html for US
http://www.bootconnection.com/support/boot_care.html
rattlesnake or reptile boots?
I'd paste more links but I also did a search on men's leather boots and I
have a date to meet someone in the alt.spike_heels-hurtme-hurt-me IRC
channel.
Kevin
Ralph Wade Phillips
"Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner" <jdw+ALLSPAM...@panix.com> wrote in message
news:bckqof$fad$1...@reader1.panix.com...
> But don't bother searching the web for "men's leather boots";
> you will not find anything useful. Unless you're into that sort of thing.
Shall I drag out the story of the first time a painter friend of
mine used Google? In front of his teenaged son?
RwP
Joe Zeff
<ral...@techie.com> wrote:
> Shall I drag out the story of the first time a painter friend of
>mine used Google? In front of his teenaged son?
If I google on my name without quotation marks, I get some really
funny stuff. Seems there's an actor in gay pr0n with my last name...
--
Joe Zeff
The Guy With the Sideburns
"Is this one of those times when i should be crying out "Ugol!!" ?
http://www.lasfs.org http://home.earthlink.net/~sidebrnz
Aaron Denney
> ObThreadXover: I think Gwyn is about to have a willow moment
You mean meet-up and be caressed by a sexy vampire version of herself
from another dimension? I'd be up for that.
--
Aaron Denney
-><-
Paul Tomblin
> Shall I drag out the story of the first time a painter friend of
>mine used Google? In front of his teenaged son?
"I'm interested in how stucco will stick to latex paint, so I thought I'd
do a `search' on ``latex bondage''."
--
Paul Tomblin <ptom...@xcski.com>, not speaking for anybody
"Microsoft is a cross between the Borg and the Ferengi. Unfortunately,
they use Borg to do their marketing and Ferengi to do their programming."
-- Simon Slavin in asr
Graham Reed
> A good thing, too -- this is getting close to being Lost Knowledge,
> like the use of a straight razor[0].
Wow, you guys have your own razors? Cool.
--
"Oh no, not again."
-- bowl of petunias
Patrick R. Wade
>dam...@qimr.edu.au (Damian James) writes:
>> A good thing, too -- this is getting close to being Lost Knowledge,
>> like the use of a straight razor[0].
>
>Wow, you guys have your own razors? Cool.
>
Yep. Some cool jackets, too.
--
"That time in Seattle... was a nightmare. I came out of it dead broke,
without a house, without anything except a girlfriend and a knowledge of
UNIX." "Well, that's something," Avi says. "Normally those two are
mutually exclusive." --Neal Stephenson, "Cryptonomicon"
Draco
Tomblin) wrote:
>In a previous article, "Ralph Wade Phillips" <ral...@techie.com> said:
>> Shall I drag out the story of the first time a painter friend of
>>mine used Google? In front of his teenaged son?
>
>"I'm interested in how stucco will stick to latex paint, so I thought I'd
>do a `search' on ``latex bondage''."
You better keep your parents off the internet, tell them it only works
on Thursdays.
Draco
Paul Tomblin
I'm afraid it's too late - my dad already has a web page. Complete with
links like <a href="C:\My Documents\Camera Club\membership.doc">, which no
matter how many times I try and explain what's wrong, he just says "it
works fine on my computer".
--
Paul Tomblin <ptom...@xcski.com>, not speaking for anybody
"If you would like a transcript of this program, sit next to your radio with a
pencil and paper and write really fast." - The WRVO Playhouse.
Draco
Tomblin) wrote:
>In a previous article, drac...@hotmail.com said:
>>On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 11:27:57 +0000 (UTC), ptom...@xcski.com (Paul
>>Tomblin) wrote:
>>>"I'm interested in how stucco will stick to latex paint, so I thought I'd
>>>do a `search' on ``latex bondage''."
>>
>>You better keep your parents off the internet, tell them it only works
>>on Thursdays.
>
>I'm afraid it's too late - my dad already has a web page. Complete with
>links like <a href="C:\My Documents\Camera Club\membership.doc">, which no
>matter how many times I try and explain what's wrong, he just says "it
>works fine on my computer".
Well there's your problem. You didn't steal the monitor cable. Tell
your father his computer has a virus and ask for some food.
Draco.
Geoff Lane
>>On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 11:27:57 +0000 (UTC), ptom...@xcski.com (Paul
>>Tomblin) wrote:
>>>"I'm interested in how stucco will stick to latex paint, so I thought I'd
>>>do a `search' on ``latex bondage''."
>>
>>You better keep your parents off the internet, tell them it only works
>>on Thursdays.
Ahhhh!!!! Yes. My brain was bleeding with the effort of trying to remember
the reference. Time to listen again.
Satirical Analogy Of The Day: SCO=Henery Hawk, IBM=Foghorn Leghorn
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Geoff Lane
Ralph Wade Phillips
"Paul Tomblin" <ptom...@xcski.com> wrote in message
news:bcmtvt$9n9$1...@allhats.xcski.com...
> In a previous article, "Ralph Wade Phillips" <ral...@techie.com> said:
> > Shall I drag out the story of the first time a painter friend of
> >mine used Google? In front of his teenaged son?
>
> "I'm interested in how stucco will stick to latex paint, so I thought I'd
> do a `search' on ``latex bondage''."
Close - oil based paint, and the search key was "oil latex bond".
And, this is NOT a joke. Both Bill and Jonathan attested to it.
So - it's not an urban legend either. It happened at least once
IRL.
I've also had the irate elderly lady after trying to set up her
hotmale.com account ...
(No, that's not MY typo there.)
RwP