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Fantastic word game

Facebook recently was allegedly valued at some $50 000 000 000 by investors, but if they were to have asked me, I wouldn't have valued it at anythng more than $1.50, and that's being generous.

[size=8pt]It's just some HTML code and Javascript, how can it be worth fifty billion clams? I've written web pages for people for $1.50 less than my $1.50!

They're appraising it for way too much. No wonder prices are so inflated these days......
 
I wouldn't have valued it at anythng more than $1.50, and that's being generous, but for some reason this Facebook thing has taken off and gone for a topless drive!

Ahhh Anyacat.
 
The faint of heart should not venture a topless drive in this weather, but the flat of chest simply have no choice in the matter.
 
So dark are the little worlds of some who not only cannot see the forest for the trees, but cannot see the trees while obsessing over a single twig.
 
A branch of the company's private phone exchange is connected to the telephone set at my desk.

[size=8pt]And now you know why switchboards are known in the industry as "Private Branch eXchanges". And do you know what kind of equipment all the phones at work are connected to? Vintage 1970s #5 Crossbar, the old Western Electric type from "back in the day". Oh yes. If you called the company's number today and asked to be connected to someone, you'd be treated to a beautifully nostalgic series of clicks and beeps as your call progresses through the system to whomever you are calling.

I don't maintain or service the equipment myself, obviously, as I am actually a firm believer in making phone calls in a step-by-step fashion. ;o)
 
The telephone set at my desk is not as confusing as the switchboard Auntie Mame had to use when she finally told one of the blubbybubbububedoo partners that there was no such place as San Francisco.
 
There was no such place as San Francisco so I had to leave my heart elsewhere and I naturally chose Olivia Newton-John.
 
This year, let's make it our mission to get through 5 pages of contributions every single day.


Daydream believer that I am. ::)
 
One Olivia Newton John song per hour usually ends up in the Holding Muzak queue on my phone at work, however as I haven't very many in my files to begin with, they just repeat throughout the day.

[size=8pt]Years ago a friend of mine built me a gizmo which I call the "Muzak piper-inner box" and is similar in concept to that described in this text file: ftp://ftp.2600.org/pub/files/boxes/uncompressed/rock .

Except the MPIB is made to connect between the phone itself and the receiver--I think the one in the text file is supposed to clip in to the line cord somehow. It also has a toggle switch that cuts off the receiver's speaker and microphone and switches it over to the MPIB's input, which I usually have connected to the line-out of one of my several laptop computers (I used to use a CD player.) Nice thing to have if you need to cuss out that one really, REALLY annoying client who keeps calling every five minutes and you don't want them to hear what you are saying!
 
An Australian accent would sound kind of strange coming from Rhymin' Paul Simon - or Art Garfunkel for that matter, but we count on it from the Bee Gees and Olivia Newton-John.
 
She might not be totally expecting it, but I'll betcha she's going to pieces than the Searchers, Peter & Gordon and Patsy Cline combined.

Which reminds me....
 


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