***Snickers, Chuckles, Giggles & Guffaws!

I dropped my copy of Oliver Twist on my toe. It hurts like the dickens.

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lmaoooo Steve … that’s good :smiley:

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LOL … big money … big money!!!

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Oh my lanta … :flushed:

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In local news, a man was shot over 100 times with an upholstery stapler. Police say he is fully recovered.

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kinda tacky joke!

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OMG this is amazing. I wish this was a filter on Snapchat.

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lmaooo … now that would be a perfect place for it :smiley:

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Well that completely grossed me out … and then made me laugh when I kept scrolling LOL :wink:

All I saw at first was Harry.

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What’s really sad is that I vividly remember when 3.5-inch diskettes were the newest thing in data storage. Sadder still is that I remember when their predecessor floppy discs replaced punch cards and reels of tape. While I’m at it, I might as well admit to being around when cuneiform writing on clay tablets replaced carving notches into sticks.

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lmao B :smiley:

I played a bit with punch cards in school. We had a field trip to a local insurance building … the only skyscraper in the tri county area. All 10 stories :smiley: They had a room full of computers and showed us a little play program that we all punched and got to see it work … if we punched it right.

I’m sure that room full of computers is probably the size of a cell phone now :wink:

We used batch cards when I was in college the first time. We used them in our biostatistics class to chart data. I coulda made a fortune selling the already punched function cards. Instead, made a lot of people mad when I wouldn’t give em over and made em do it themselves. Oh, but it did suck if you had one out of order and after waiting for your turn in the run, getting a page or 20 back with nothing useful on them.

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At my college there was only a mainframe with terminals in the library building. The interface was a keyboard and instead of a screen there was a teleprinter unit with a golfball head printing onto a roll of paper. I still have some of those somewhere, mostly my conversations with ELIZA.

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Eliza, wow, that’s a blast from the past.
I do still have a paper printout from an old game of Leather Goddesses of Phobos. It was printed on 4" wide adding machine tape and looks about like a role of toilet paper.
Kiss frog
You don’t want to touch the frog with your lips
Put lip balm on lips.
The frog is too ugly to kiss.
Close eyes. Kiss frog.
The frog smells like a swamp
Put clothespin on nose, close eyes, kiss frog.
The frog makes an unpleasant croaking sound.
Drop everything [you are carrying and] stick fingers in ears, close eyes and kiss frog.
After the frog does its thing (what that thing is depends on if you are in Tame or Lewd mode)
You get…A blender!
Take blender
You can’t pick up the blender because you have your fingers in your ears.
Take fingers out of ears.
Take all.
It isn’t until you see yourself in a reflecting surface much later that you realize you still have the clothespin on your nose…
And that’s just one section of an entire role of paper. LOL.
Infocom games. Love those things!

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lmao! That gave me a good chuckle :smiley:

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I thought it was pretty dang funny.

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