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From: Pd on 9 Jun 2010 05:11 Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > Why would you smear a mouse in peanut butter? Hey, everybody has their little foibles. -- Pd
From: Pd on 9 Jun 2010 05:12 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > Fortunately for Zynga, apparently 1% of the world's population have > > all > > the insight of a mouse looking at a mousetrap smeared in peanut > > butter. > > Crack! Newstap is the new Google Groups for screwing up quoting. > Peanut butter crack? They do flavours now? Mmmm, crack. -- Pd
From: Jim on 9 Jun 2010 05:16 On 2010-06-09, Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: >> >> I -lived- in dBaseII (and then later IV, missing III mostly) for about a >> >> decade. I also dabbled in Clipper (dBaseIII compiler). >> >> >> >> I want those years back. >> > >> > Is it okay to say I really liked dBaseII? >> >> No, that's fine. But I had to use it in anger for too many years, and it >> gave me a lot of reasons to be angry. > > I used it extensively for a couple of years, and later FoxBase, and > remember that I developed a lot of 'workarounds' to avoid various little > peccadilloes and idiosyncracies. But that was 25 years ago, and don't > think I can remember how to even list tables any more. Same here. I can remember a few things, like GO TOP, LOCATE FOR <condition>, SKIP, etc, but most of it's a blur now. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you." Terry Pratchett
From: Jim on 9 Jun 2010 05:17 On 2010-06-09, Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: > > Newstap is the new Google Groups for screwing up quoting. > >> Peanut butter crack? They do flavours now? > > Mmmm, crack. "Peanut butter crack - almost as addictive as Pringles" Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you." Terry Pratchett
From: Ian Piper on 9 Jun 2010 05:19
On 2010-06-07 22:37:45 +0100, flavio_mataniTAKETHISBITOUT(a)mac.com (Flavio Matani) said: >>>>> Aha! They're in white-back as well. Niiice. >>>> >>>> White-front as well, which is new. The home button looks weird. >>>> >>>> However, that's the one I'm getting. All very 2001-esque. Or Buck >>>> Rogers, as the guys at work insist. >>> >>> I might dust off my old iPod and pretend it is an iPhone 4. >> >> Exactly. White plastic gadgets are the best. > > > I beg to differ:P Me too. I just saw the white iPhone on their website and I think it looks horrible. However, since getting my iPad I'm afraid a phone is back to being just a phone, so I won't be going for one of these. Ian. -- Ian Piper Author of "Learn Xcode Tools for Mac OS X and iPhone Development", Apress, December 2009 Learn more here: http://learnxcodebook.com/� --� |