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[#] Fri Nov 04 2016 12:30:56 EDT from fleeb

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We have this expression... 'Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.'

I should think Hell has relatively little fury, and a lot of misery.

[#] Mon Jan 09 2017 08:46:52 EST from LoanShark

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Getting "I can't print!" with no further details from my 67-year-old dad (who at one point in his career was a mainframe programmer.)

Gah, even my Hell> posts are going downhill. Gotta stop that up in 2017...

[#] Mon Jan 09 2017 11:07:24 EST from fleeb

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Heh... that's hellishly amusing.

But then, I've often wondered at the mainframe and kernel programmers who seemed completely confused at some of the basics of operating system maintenance.

[#] Mon Jan 09 2017 14:27:35 EST from LoanShark

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What he did was write Fortran(I think) CAD analysis programs which happened to run on PRIMEOS, so I guess "mainframe" is not quite accurate. Still...

[#] Mon Jan 09 2017 15:11:12 EST from fleeb

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Eh, still the same general idea.

[#] Mon Jan 09 2017 21:06:05 EST from LoanShark

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I sent a list of bullet points to check, and got back "I can print again!" with no further explanation as to what might have been wrong.

I swear, he's just looking for something to talk about.

[#] Tue Jan 10 2017 07:58:51 EST from fleeb

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At his age, medical escapes normally make for conversation points.

[#] Tue Jan 10 2017 08:01:53 EST from zooer

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Your Dad just wants to talk to you, talk to him.



[#] Tue Jan 10 2017 13:09:03 EST from fleeb

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Oh, there's an idea! Talk to him about hell. Not with him, but to him.
Explain hell to him, and all of its intricacies. Leave no detail unexplored on the subject.

[#] Tue Jan 10 2017 16:38:14 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

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I swear, he's just looking for something to talk about.

The weather, or the activities of the local sportsball team, would be better conversation than "I can't print"

[#] Tue Jan 10 2017 18:06:31 EST from LoanShark

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I figured you'd weigh in with something along those lines sooner or later.

He doesn't follow any of the local sportsball teams.

[#] Mon Jan 23 2017 12:38:35 EST from LoanShark

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PNR HAS BEEN UPDATED - IGN AND RETRY

[#] Mon Jan 23 2017 12:46:46 EST from fleeb

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Please do not attempt to adjust your sense of the truth. We are currently calibrating the truth for full national compliance.

[#] Mon Jan 23 2017 16:02:23 EST from Ladyhawke

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Resistance remains futile.  In Soviet USA, all your truths belong to us.



[#] Tue Jan 31 2017 10:01:41 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

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Speaking of resistance, I think I've finally memorized the resistor color code. Black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, grey, white?
Is that it? (I typed it from memory, no googling)

[#] Tue Jan 31 2017 10:28:11 EST from fleeb

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Yep, that's the right order. Impressive!

[#] Tue Jan 31 2017 13:58:26 EST from Ragnar Danneskjold

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Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly.

[#] Thu Feb 02 2017 10:06:11 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

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I'm ... surprised that's the variant you chose.

[#] Thu Feb 02 2017 11:17:57 EST from zooer

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Is there a special place for anyone in this hell?



[#] Thu Feb 02 2017 12:07:56 EST from Ragnar Danneskjold

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2017-02-02 10:06 from IGnatius T Foobar
I'm ... surprised that's the variant you chose.



It's the way I learned it.

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