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Fantastic word game

Ready to go a-postin', sometimes we miss posts when we round the corner on a new page.

I still get the thing on my computer where the "Last post" is really the 2nd to last post. Sometimes the "last post" is actually the "most recent post" for real, but usually, there's another one younger than the "last post." It's messed me up a few times too on the clue order.
 
When we round the corner on a new page it will be right around the time I hit the Post button.

...or not
 
The Post button apparently must be something that appears on a graphic interface, because on my character terminal, you down-arrow until "Post" is highlighted in white, then you hit the "enter" key.

[size=8pt] Anyone want to guess which browser I use? Anybody?

Hint: its name rhymes with "kinks".
 
The "enter" key is just another one of those buttons to those of us who might be considered geezers.

Fortunately there are some who are a good bit older, who do not get thrown off the train, but for even the shortest trek we book a sleeper car for them. And shortly we shall arrive.
 
Those of us who might be considered geezers talk about how we used to walk to school in the winter, in 3 feet of snow, with no shoes, uphill both ways.


I wonder if Sweetie Pie remembers those days. :D
 
We liked it when DEC introduced TOPS-20, but then when they decided to deprecate it for VMS and VAXen, it all went down the turlet pretty quickly.

[size=8pt]And for those of you who didn't remember to bring your textbooks to Computer History 107.4FM, it eventually caused DEC to lose so much money, they were bought out of bankruptcy by Compaq in the late 1990s. This may not exactly be the origins of the phrase "mating dinosaurs", which actually has its origins in the Gang of Nine, but it's pretty durned close. See, for over a thousand generations PDP-10s were the guardians of peace and justice in the data processing world. Before the dark times--before the VAX. Evenualy this meant that the PDP-10's days, at least in terms of tech support, were limited. Now, much like the Jedi, they're almost all but extinct.

And that, my dear children, is why you will never see VMS or a VAX here at the FWG University Computer Centre, only PDP-10s. To paraphrase an old English vacuum-cleaner advert, "Nothing sucks like a VAX!"

Hi, quad! Yeah.....down here....
 
Something perjorative about Olivia Newton John surely couldn't have been credited to me, because when I hear Lovely Olivia's voice come singing across my satellite receiver and speakers, it's absolute Magic.

[size=8pt]Note the capitalisation.
 
It's absolute Magic is a clever reference to one of the many hits by our favorite little singer and it's posts like that one that help me to understand the sentiment behind the song, Have You Never Been Mellow.
 
In tacit agreement Team FWG remained reserved for a time, leaving the small potatoes to their little devices, recognizing the importance of the ultimate objective.
 
Perfection and precision are paramount, to say nothing of the fact that in addition to being our stock in trade, they are our trademark.
 
Our trademark campus TV station, KFWG-LD on channel 37, airs the usual mundane, amateurish University-produced stuff, but also schedules regular screenings of Macgyver, Supertrain, Super Password, Blockbusters, Hot Streak and filmed Olivia Newton John concerts starting at 1700 each evening.
 
Channel 37 is must-see tv for some but I would prefer to watch The P.I. Channel with a never ending stream of classic detective shows such as The Rockford Files, Magnum P.I, and Columbo.
 


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