At 05:43 PM Thursday 1/8/2009, Julia Thompson wrote:
>On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Rceeberger wrote: > > > http://xkcd.com/526/ > > > > > > xponent > > Spit Goes Cunk Maru > > rob > >Is that "cunk" or "clink"? > >Looks like "clink" to me. Me, too. I was surprised how much better the resolution turned out to be on this new monitor (Dell which matches the box it's connected to 19", which seemed like the best available choice at 9 pm at Wal-Mart after the old one announced loudly that it was retiring . . . fortunately I had just received one of those occasional checks that are still trickling in from my father's estate and deposited it the day before) than it was on the old CRT, even though before it went zzzzzzztt-poof!!+<burning smell> that one hadn't degraded nearly as much as the one it replaced shortly after the [actual] beginning of the new millennium. And perhaps those of you who have read comics for many years recall that the writers were instructed to never use the word "flick" . . . >(Or just go to Google Images and type in, "they should have used a >different font".) Preferably a heated one if someone is being baptized at this time of year. (Which reminds me of the time I participated in one on New Year's Eve.) On another topic, from a story on tonight's evening news it sounds like the POTUS-elect has been reading my rants on this list . . . They Said My Coupons Should Have Already Been Mailed Maru . . . ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
