Re: How to shoot yourself in the foot

[Jolly Roger]

In article <michelle-A4BB4C...@news.eternal-september.org>,
Michelle Steiner <mich...@michelle.org> wrote:

> Many other languages/operating systems are included.
>
> -- Michelle
>
> http://www.toodarkpark.org/computers/humor/shoot-self-in-foot.html
>
> € Mac OS (System 7)
> ° Double-click the gun icon and a window appears, giving a selection
> for guns, target areas, and balloon help with medical remedies. Click the
> "shoot" button and a small bomb appears with a note "Bad F-line
> instruction."
> € Mac OS (System 7.1)
> ° Double-click the gun icon and a window appears, giving a selection
> for guns, target areas, and balloon help with medical remedies. Click the
> "shoot" button and a small bomb appears with a note "Error of type 1 has
> occurred."
> € Mac OS 9
> ° Double-click the gun icon and a window appears, giving a selection
> for guns, target areas, and balloon help with medical remedies. Click the
> "shoot" button and a window appears with the message "You need to install
> the latest version of CarbonLib. Should I get it for you?" You click "Yes"
> and your computer hangs.
> € Mac OS X
> ° You try to shoot yourself in the foot from the GUI but the gun has
> inexplicably turned into a bag of Skittles.
> ? You open up the Terminal, type sudo shoot -p
> ~/Library/BodyParts/Preferences/foot.plist, and your kernel panics.

: ) Thanks!

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[William Ockham]

On 11/18/12 2:53 PM, Michelle Steiner wrote:
> --
> Watch here for a new sig, coming soon.

--
> Watch here for a new sig, coming soon.

Marvelous. Perhaps your new sig is driven by a recent birthday that took
you out of teenage adolescence?


--
I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to
these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
--Fran Lebovitz

[William Ockham]

On 11/18/12 4:35 PM, Michelle Steiner wrote:
> In article <k8bi6b$cp0$1...@news.albasani.net>,

> William Ockham <willia...@nospam.net> wrote:
>
>> > Watch here for a new sig, coming soon.
>>
>> Marvelous. Perhaps your new sig is driven by a recent birthday that took
>> you out of teenage adolescence?
>

> Actually, no; it's driven by the fact that I'm planning to come up with a
> new one.
>
> Oh, my birthday will be in 13 days, at which point, I'll be finishing my
> seventh decade on earth and beginning my eighth.
>
> How much longer will it be before you enter adolescence, boy? Five years?
> Six? Seven?
>

Pushing 80? God bless and happy birthday! I'll cut you some slack...

[George Kerby]

On 11/18/12 3:50 PM, in article k8bl6o$kce$1...@news.albasani.net, "William

Ockham" <willia...@nospam.net> wrote:

> On 11/18/12 4:35 PM, Michelle Steiner wrote:
>> In article <k8bi6b$cp0$1...@news.albasani.net>,
>> William Ockham <willia...@nospam.net> wrote:
>>
>>>> Watch here for a new sig, coming soon.
>>>
>>> Marvelous. Perhaps your new sig is driven by a recent birthday that took
>>> you out of teenage adolescence?
>>
>> Actually, no; it's driven by the fact that I'm planning to come up with a
>> new one.
>>
>> Oh, my birthday will be in 13 days, at which point, I'll be finishing my
>> seventh decade on earth and beginning my eighth.
>>
>> How much longer will it be before you enter adolescence, boy? Five years?
>> Six? Seven?
>>
>
> Pushing 80? God bless and happy birthday! I'll cut you some slack...
>
>

Math was your weakness in Kindergarten?

[George Kerby]

On 11/18/12 5:14 PM, in article
timstreater-19A5...@news.individual.net, "Tim Streater"
<timst...@greenbee.net> wrote:

> In article <k8bl6o$kce$1...@news.albasani.net>,

> William Ockham <willia...@nospam.net> wrote:
>
>> On 11/18/12 4:35 PM, Michelle Steiner wrote:
>>> In article <k8bi6b$cp0$1...@news.albasani.net>,
>>> William Ockham <willia...@nospam.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Watch here for a new sig, coming soon.
>>>>
>>>> Marvelous. Perhaps your new sig is driven by a recent birthday that took
>>>> you out of teenage adolescence?
>>>
>>> Actually, no; it's driven by the fact that I'm planning to come up with a
>>> new one.
>>>
>>> Oh, my birthday will be in 13 days, at which point, I'll be finishing my
>>> seventh decade on earth and beginning my eighth.
>>>
>>> How much longer will it be before you enter adolescence, boy? Five years?
>>> Six? Seven?
>
>> Pushing 80? God bless and happy birthday! I'll cut you some slack...
>

> Bugger me, Zero, can't you count either?


But, but - IT said it was associated with the Apollo Program AND a Computer
Scientist!

[JF Mezei]

On 12-11-18 19:42, George Kerby wrote:

>>> Oh, my birthday will be in 13 days, at which point, I'll be finishing my
>>> seventh decade on earth and beginning my eighth.

>> Pushing 80? God bless and happy birthday! I'll cut you some slack...
>
> Math was your weakness in Kindergarten?
>

I also though that Michelle was going to be 80. It is only because of
those messages challenging math that I had to sit down and think about it.

Generally, women tend to speak in ways that make one underestimate their
age, not the reverse :-)

It is still pretty good that a lady pushing that age is using computers.

I had tried to get my mother to use a computer and the best I got her to
do is play solitaire. My dad just didn't want to try. (but they were
older than Michelle)