Just chiming in on this...hope you don't mind...
My teacher gave me a Mac II a couple years back, and it had 7.1 on it
along with Pyro, and the (now infamous on this list) the Grouch init.
But when I had first gotten the machine, I did not know it was there.
So, with the speaker all the way up (Who knows why she had it all the
way up), I dragged something there. When I did, I was completely
STARTLED and scared, because I didn't know where it had come from. So
then I took about 5 minutes and searched the Apps folder - nothing.
System Folder - nothing. Extensions - I saw a little icon with a trash
can, and I got suspicious. I then made a blank folder and dragged it
to the trash, and lo and behold, the Grouch popped up and started
singing.
Just thought you might need to know that :-P haha
Ian
On Jul 4, 2005, at 6:45 PM, Yersinia wrote:
...I have a seriously infantile sense of humor about certain things at
times. To wit,
Bruce Johnson writes,
<Whenever you emptied the trash, Oscar would come out of the trash can
and sing a fragment of his 'I love Trash' song. Each time you emptied
the trash he sang another verse, so the only way to get him to sing
the whole thing was to repeatedly put things in the trash and empty it.
Hmm...no way THAT could go wrong!
It was by an Eric Shapiro, and was shown at MacHack '89 and may well
exist out on the net somewhere...He eventually wrote a standalone
version to protect people with preschoolers.
Here's a link to a copy I found: <http://asgard.actrix.co.nz/
macintosh/inits/>
It's called TheGrouch.sit on that page.>
ROFLMAO! I can't help but ask if this is (a) something that's actually
going to damage my Macs (G3/266, OS 9.2.2 and 5300c Powerbook OS 8.6),
and (b) if it's safe, can I put this on my Macs and will Oscar do his
thing when I empty my Trash? See, I'd like to try it, but I don't want
to
mess up my Macs.
On this note, does anyone remember an extension called MacBarf?
Supposedly if you had it installed and enabled, it would cause your Mac
to make vomiting noises whenever you ejected a floppy. I had downloaded
it from somewhere and enabled it (this was back on my 7200/120 with OS
8.1 as my only computer era) but it never worked. Does anyone know why,
and if I could find this for OS 8.6 to 9.2.2?
But I don't WANNA grow up!,
~Yersinia.
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