Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 23:16:16 -0700 From: Karen R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy Oh dear, now I'm in trouble :-/ Looks like I misinterpreted how you calling me Grandma made me feel at the moment I read it... sigh :-) Karen gg Pres Waterman wrote: > Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 12:30:01 -0400 > From: "Pres Waterman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy > > > But at least you didn't call me an 'old' Grandma like Pres did;-) > > I did? > > Pres Waterman W2PW > c/o Patchogue Motors, Inc. > Long Island Ford and Kia Dealer ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 20:48:13 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy In a message dated 8/12/2000 9:35:16 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Come on Pres, shocked, hardly, not since you were caught in the girl's room in Kindergarten. Jim Ray, Phoenix, AZ, USA http://www.grannyjeans.com/">Click here: www.grannyjeans.com (crass commercial) Warning: Subjects with (H) may or may not contain humor. ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 12:30:01 -0400 From: "Pres Waterman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy > But at least you didn't call me an 'old' Grandma like Pres did;-) I did? Pres Waterman W2PW c/o Patchogue Motors, Inc. Long Island Ford and Kia Dealer GO BILLS! ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 20:06:41 -0700 From: Karen R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy (take-off on Robin Williams) Good Morning, Neil!! >erm...Karen, I, an impressionable young lad, Yeah, right Neil... uh huh! sure thing! All those who believe that wave your hands!! Now Neil, did you see any hands waving?? eh??? NOT a one :-) You sound like Derek when he tried to tell us that he didn't join this list to be educated in (im)morality. LOL (Derek, oh Derek, are you still around??) >What was the last line of your post? You know, after sending the last email, I saw that line and just knew that you were gonna throw it up to me I'm SO glad that you didn't disappoint me :-) But at least you didn't call me an 'old' Grandma like Pres did;-) Karen gg neil barnes wrote: > Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 07:58:37 GMT > From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy > > erm...Karen, I, an impressionable young lad, merely copied the example of my > elders and betters . > > What was the last line of your post? > > Neil (hunting rapidly for cover) > > >From: Karen R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy > >Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 18:33:26 -0700 > > > >Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 18:28:48 -0700 > >From: Karen R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy > > > >Now wait just a minute, Neil!! > > > >How in the world did THAT kind of language get into this?? :-) > > > >Pres, help me out... is that what 'futzer' means?? > > > >Karen > >gg > > > > > >neil barnes wrote: > > > > > Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 20:49:46 GMT > > > From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Subject: Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy > > > > > > Now now Karen, precision in language is essential for proper > >communication. > > > For example, (borrowed from Dilbert) > > > > > > 'I think it's the water pump' > > > 'what?' > > > 'I think it's the water pump' > > > 'what?' > > > 'I think it's the *&^^&ing water pump' > > > 'Oh, right, I'll get right on it...' > > > > > > Neil > > > > > > >From: Karen R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >Reply-To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >Subject: Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy > > > >Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 19:07:59 -0700 > > > > > > > >Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 19:00:35 -0700 > > > >From: Karen R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >Subject: Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy > > > > > > > >O Neil, > > > > > > > >And here I was gonna call EVERYTHING a futzer thingamawhatsit > > > > > > > >And now you are telling me that I've got to REMEMBER all these > >geriatric > > > >part names and get them RIGHT? > > > > > > > >$%^&*#$%#%^ GROAN$%&&%$#%^ > > > > > > > >See what you just made me do?? > > > > > > > >Karen > > > >gg ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 07:58:37 GMT From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy erm...Karen, I, an impressionable young lad, merely copied the example of my elders and betters . What was the last line of your post? Neil (hunting rapidly for cover) >From: Karen R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy >Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 18:33:26 -0700 > >Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 18:28:48 -0700 >From: Karen R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy > >Now wait just a minute, Neil!! > >How in the world did THAT kind of language get into this?? :-) > >Pres, help me out... is that what 'futzer' means?? > >Karen >gg > > >neil barnes wrote: > > > Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 20:49:46 GMT > > From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy > > > > Now now Karen, precision in language is essential for proper >communication. > > For example, (borrowed from Dilbert) > > > > 'I think it's the water pump' > > 'what?' > > 'I think it's the water pump' > > 'what?' > > 'I think it's the *&^^&ing water pump' > > 'Oh, right, I'll get right on it...' > > > > Neil > > > > >From: Karen R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Reply-To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Subject: Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy > > >Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 19:07:59 -0700 > > > > > >Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 19:00:35 -0700 > > >From: Karen R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Subject: Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy > > > > > >O Neil, > > > > > >And here I was gonna call EVERYTHING a futzer thingamawhatsit > > > > > >And now you are telling me that I've got to REMEMBER all these >geriatric > > >part names and get them RIGHT? > > > > > >$%^&*#$%#%^ GROAN$%&&%$#%^ > > > > > >See what you just made me do?? > > > > > >Karen > > >gg Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 22:02:34 -0700 From: Karen R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy >Which way'd you come in? Same as you :-) >Yes, Grandma, that's futzin' Oh wow! Just make me feel my age :-/ LOL Karen gg Pres Waterman wrote: > Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 00:47:11 -0400 > From: "Pres Waterman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy > > >Now wait just a minute, Neil!! > > > >How in the world did THAT kind of language get into this?? :-) > > > >Pres, help me out... is that what 'futzer' means?? > > Which way'd you come in? > > Yes, Grandma, that's futzin' > > Pres Waterman W2PW > c/o Patchogue Motors, Inc. > Long Island Ford and Kia Dealer > > GO BILLS! ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 00:47:11 -0400 From: "Pres Waterman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy >Now wait just a minute, Neil!! > >How in the world did THAT kind of language get into this?? :-) > >Pres, help me out... is that what 'futzer' means?? Which way'd you come in? Yes, Grandma, that's futzin' Pres Waterman W2PW c/o Patchogue Motors, Inc. Long Island Ford and Kia Dealer GO BILLS! ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 18:28:48 -0700 From: Karen R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy Now wait just a minute, Neil!! How in the world did THAT kind of language get into this?? :-) Pres, help me out... is that what 'futzer' means?? Karen gg neil barnes wrote: > Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 20:49:46 GMT > From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy > > Now now Karen, precision in language is essential for proper communication. > For example, (borrowed from Dilbert) > > 'I think it's the water pump' > 'what?' > 'I think it's the water pump' > 'what?' > 'I think it's the *&^^&ing water pump' > 'Oh, right, I'll get right on it...' > > Neil > > >From: Karen R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy > >Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 19:07:59 -0700 > > > >Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 19:00:35 -0700 > >From: Karen R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy > > > >O Neil, > > > >And here I was gonna call EVERYTHING a futzer thingamawhatsit > > > >And now you are telling me that I've got to REMEMBER all these geriatric > >part names and get them RIGHT? > > > >$%^&*#$%#%^ GROAN$%&&%$#%^ > > > >See what you just made me do?? > > > >Karen > >gg ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 20:49:46 GMT From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy Now now Karen, precision in language is essential for proper communication. For example, (borrowed from Dilbert) 'I think it's the water pump' 'what?' 'I think it's the water pump' 'what?' 'I think it's the *&^^&ing water pump' 'Oh, right, I'll get right on it...' Neil >From: Karen R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy >Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 19:07:59 -0700 > >Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 19:00:35 -0700 >From: Karen R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy > >O Neil, > >And here I was gonna call EVERYTHING a futzer thingamawhatsit > >And now you are telling me that I've got to REMEMBER all these geriatric >part names and get them RIGHT? > >$%^&*#$%#%^ GROAN$%&&%$#%^ > >See what you just made me do?? > >Karen >gg > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 19:00:35 -0700 From: Karen R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy O Neil, And here I was gonna call EVERYTHING a futzer thingamawhatsit And now you are telling me that I've got to REMEMBER all these geriatric part names and get them RIGHT? $%^&*#$%#%^ GROAN$%&&%$#%^ See what you just made me do?? Karen gg neil barnes wrote: > Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 17:05:24 GMT > From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy > > Karen, > > You have to be *very* careful not to mistake the thingamjig for the doofus. > And if you should ever refer to the oojah whan you meant widget, or the > watchamacallit, or the wotsit, then your engineering street-cred is > seriously deflated! > > Neil > > Jargon (n): (1) Unintelligible words > (2) Gibberish > (3) Barbarous or debased language > (4) Mode of speech familiar only to a group or profession > [source OED 6th ed 1975] > > >From: Karen R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy > >Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 07:31:05 -0700 > > > >Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 07:23:31 -0700 > >From: Karen R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy > > > > >>How in the world do y'all come up with such descriptive part > > >>names?? > > > > > > > > >After about 20 minutes of trying to fit it back before IT broke. Yeah, IT > >broke. The > > >frostration mounted. I'm sorry for using such language. > > > >PLEASE don't be sorry for giving me such wonderful laughs! I am memorizing > >these neat 'part names' to use when I can't remember or don't know what > >things > >are called :-) > > > >Karen > >gg ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 17:05:24 GMT From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy Karen, You have to be *very* careful not to mistake the thingamjig for the doofus. And if you should ever refer to the oojah whan you meant widget, or the watchamacallit, or the wotsit, then your engineering street-cred is seriously deflated! Neil Jargon (n): (1) Unintelligible words (2) Gibberish (3) Barbarous or debased language (4) Mode of speech familiar only to a group or profession [source OED 6th ed 1975] >From: Karen R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy >Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 07:31:05 -0700 > >Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 07:23:31 -0700 >From: Karen R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy > > >>How in the world do y'all come up with such descriptive part > >>names?? > > > > > >After about 20 minutes of trying to fit it back before IT broke. Yeah, IT >broke. The > >frostration mounted. I'm sorry for using such language. > >PLEASE don't be sorry for giving me such wonderful laughs! I am memorizing >these neat 'part names' to use when I can't remember or don't know what >things >are called :-) > >Karen >gg > > > > >** >http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list >http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives >http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ > ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe > UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- >Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... >** > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 07:23:31 -0700 From: Karen R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy >>How in the world do y'all come up with such descriptive part >>names?? > > >After about 20 minutes of trying to fit it back before IT broke. Yeah, IT broke. The >frostration mounted. I'm sorry for using such language. PLEASE don't be sorry for giving me such wonderful laughs! I am memorizing these neat 'part names' to use when I can't remember or don't know what things are called :-) Karen gg ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 09:33:10 -0400 From: "Pres Waterman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy >Just be sure to ask for a T-Bird when you hit NYC... that will >show Pres exactly how much that "little grey and white plastic >scissor-jack futzer thingamawhatsit" is really worth :-) No problem. I gotta 1988 trade in out back. 260,000 km on it. > >How in the world do y'all come up with such descriptive part >names?? > After about 20 minutes of trying to fit it back before IT broke. Yeah, IT broke. The frostration mounted. I'm sorry for using such language. Pres Waterman W2PW c/o Patchogue Motors, Inc. Long Island Ford and Kia Dealer GO BILLS! ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 19:34:38 -0700 From: Karen R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: H: Re: keyboard thingy Great on, Neil! Just be sure to ask for a T-Bird when you hit NYC... that will show Pres exactly how much that "little grey and white plastic scissor-jack futzer thingamawhatsit" is really worth :-) How in the world do y'all come up with such descriptive part names?? Karen gg neil barnes wrote: > Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 09:22:16 GMT > From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: H: Re: keyboard thingy > > Karen > > I've offered him one...though I failed to mention Anita and I might have to > come across to NYC for a dirty weekend on her birthday and might just need a > set of wheels... > > Neil ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: H Re: keyboard thingy
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 12:06:31 -0400 From: "Pres Waterman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: H Re: keyboard thingy >nailed >On doing a web search for 'merkins' I came up with the following...persons >nailed >of a sensitive nature need not apply! >nailed > >nailed >http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_232.html >nailed > >nailed >Are you sure that's what you meant, Jim? > >Hahahahahahahahhaahah! > >Ok, I DID NOT know about that... The very end of the page is the funniest Pres Waterman W2PW c/o Patchogue Motors, Inc. Long Island Ford and Kia Dealer GO BILLS! ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: H Re: keyboard thingy
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 11:53:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Sheafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: H Re: keyboard thingy On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, neil barnes wrote: nailed >> > Even us 'merkins know that... nailed >> > nailed >> nailed > nailed >On doing a web search for 'merkins' I came up with the following...persons nailed >of a sensitive nature need not apply! nailed > nailed >http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_232.html nailed > nailed >Are you sure that's what you meant, Jim? Hahahahahahahahhaahah! Ok, I DID NOT know about that... No, I was trying to type the word "American", but the way most of us pronounce it - leaving off the first syllable, and most of the pronounced consonants as well. That's why I put in the '. Wow, that definition is funny... -- -Jim Jim Sheaferhttp://www.tux.org/~sheafer/ ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: H Re: keyboard thingy
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 15:41:55 GMT
From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: H Re: keyboard thingy
>Jim Sheafer wrote:
> >
> > paul.b >Us Britons call it a "Space Bar" - with a space. :-) So, if you
>call a
> > paul.b ># a pound sign, what do you call a £?
> >
> > U, that would be the Pound sign. Can't you hear the cap?
>
>I can only make out the cap in accents from round the edge of the US.
>I've never ventured into the middle. According to Hollywood, really bad
>scary things happen in there... :-{
>
>Oh, except for New York accents. They are just incomprehensible. Are
>they American Geordies?
>
> >
> > :^)
> >
> > Even us 'merkins know that...
> >
>
On doing a web search for 'merkins' I came up with the following...persons
of a sensitive nature need not apply!
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_232.html
Are you sure that's what you meant, Jim?
Neil
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Re: H Re: keyboard thingy
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 16:57:10 +0200
From: Paul Bristow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: H Re: keyboard thingy
Jim Sheafer wrote:
>
> paul.b >Us Britons call it a "Space Bar" - with a space. :-) So, if you call a
> paul.b ># a pound sign, what do you call a £?
>
> U, that would be the Pound sign. Can't you hear the cap?
I can only make out the cap in accents from round the edge of the US.
I've never ventured into the middle. According to Hollywood, really bad
scary things happen in there... :-{
Oh, except for New York accents. They are just incomprehensible. Are
they American Geordies?
>
> :^)
>
> Even us 'merkins know that...
>
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Re: H Re: keyboard thingy
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 10:35:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Sheafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: H Re: keyboard thingy On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Paul Bristow wrote: paul.b >> Hi. My spacebar became recalcitrant and whilst I was repairing/cleaning the paul.b >> undercarriage the little grey and white plastic scissor-jack futzer thingamawhatsit paul.b >> that lifts the button over the microswitch decided to break. Luckily all keys seem to paul.b >> have the same futzer so I popped off the button to the left with the ` and ~ on it paul.b >> and stole the scissor thingy. Now a-course I don't have the button mounted to the paul.b >> left of the spacebar. ( What do the Brits call it? They CAN'T call it a spacebar. paul.b >> Must be a pauseinserter or an interval-manoeuvering device ). paul.b > paul.b >Us Britons call it a "Space Bar" - with a space. :-) So, if you call a paul.b ># a pound sign, what do you call a £? U, that would be the Pound sign. Can't you hear the cap? :^) Even us 'merkins know that... -- -Jim Jim Sheaferhttp://www.tux.org/~sheafer/ ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: H Re: keyboard thingy
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 09:53:01 -0400 From: "Pres Waterman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: H Re: keyboard thingy >Us Britons call it a "Space Bar" - with a space. :-) So, if you call a ># a pound sign, what do you call a £? We don't call it anything. Pres Waterman W2PW c/o Patchogue Motors, Inc. Long Island Ford and Kia Dealer GO BILLS! ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
