technology
Accent marks and inverted question marks omitted, as they would become undefined characters on the comments page.
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Reading as far as my own first comment, I see ABC story was linked, but details not actually mentioned...
MP4: ...catharsis through a cathode ray screen...
You're still using a CRT?
That is depressing!
My #256 - escaped the barrel again. And I don't even have the [ /i ] in my handle. Thanks, Pixy magic!
Nice barrel. Stay over there.
Wednesday Weirdness:
We've already been Vic-free the past couple of days. That's unsettling enough.
Dang it!
"Is this game, set, match for Trump?" (CNN)
Kate58: ...provide even one line better explaining the subject matter? Right now it's a string of punch lines for jokes we've never heard....
Home, and my beverage went too fast while I perused the comments. Might dare a second helping.
Bitter Clinger: Always paste into notepad and then copy that.
Lizzy: Could be charitable and provide link to MWW AoSHQ tips page, but can't find the link, though...
Tonestaple - oh, also, if you're one of those who can't use ampersands, then all bets are off, because the substitutes all start with an ampersand. Sorry you're having problems.
Tonestaple: ...I thought Notepad stripped off all of the unacceptable formatting....
BackwardsBoy: ...One of my many flights of fancy is wondering what would happen if things from the Bible were to occur today....
Tonestaple, you may be having trouble because you're trying to copy and paste characters the software won't accept?
Hard copy of texts.
In 1979 or so, I was banging out a multi-page document on the old typewriter, with multiple carbon copies.
Evening, folks.
Smallish Bees: fooling around with umlauts? I wonder at my priorities.
#ÜmlautLivesMatter!
Smallish Bees: Drat, my U-umlaut didn't survive Pixy.
It's just hiding.
Putting a semi-colon in one's signature causes the cookie to be mis-set.
Heh. Although this one is much simpler, it reminds me of XKCD's classic flow chart, "Tech Support Cheat Sheet."
Milady says re vent windows - "those worked pretty well, too." Yeah.
Vendette: The sound of shoving an 8-track into the player.
Heh. Good one.
Shoving an 8-track into the deck in the Mustang and heading on down the highway....
Will, Don't think I've commented here before, but I've been following your blog for a while - lured over via Bluebird's. Enjoyable. Thanks for your work.
Washington Nearsider,
Your nic link is an email address that doesn't start with http:// so it gets prepended with Ace's address. Might wanna tidy that up.
BAN ERRORS!
cth: "…he can call and have me read it to him…"
Now that we're deep in boob territory, is it too late in the thread for more news-type stuff?
300 televisions - this is the funniest take yet on the "two phones" thing. [hat-tip!]
Pete: "…the attachment you could put on your record player to drop 45’s one at a time"