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Happy Birthday for Thursday

 

But how were you using a computer in the 70s???

(or was it one of those PET things - I first used one of them at Uni in the 80s)

 

It was an ICL Maximop with a teletype terminal. My Dad took me into work during the school holiday and plonked me in front of some programs some of the students had written.

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I am the child who rocked on his chair and cracked their skull that your teacher warned you about in school.

 

When I was 'in the classroom' I wasn't all that worried about their head - the chairs where I was has a habit of the legs snapping

On one occasion I saw a kid leaning back on his (it was always a boy!!) chair and the leg snapped leaving a very sharp steel tube pointing upwards as the kid fell backwards

 

The sharp bit missed his kidneys by a fraction

 

cleaning all the blood off the carpet would have been a right pain!!

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When I was 'in the classroom' I wasn't all that worried about their head - the chairs where I was has a habit of the legs snapping

I thought this was heading to a "they had no budget to replace broken chairs" when I started reading, not "the sharp tube causes a bloodbath"!

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But WHICH STATEMENT is the lie?

 

well that is a good question

 

 

personally I think he/it is up to something and is trying to start a campaign to re-rehabilitate himself as a 'normal person'

 

rather than the leader of cult set on destroying all intelligent life in the Universe

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I thought this was heading to a "they had no budget to replace broken chairs" when I started reading, not "the sharp tube causes a bloodbath"!

 

Yeah - but the 'sharp tube causes a a bloodbath' is FAR more interesting than a boring old budget thingy

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Posts like this need so much more than a "Thank" option!...

 

There is the option to add Rep (Reputation)

 

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To add Rep, click on the star after 'Send PM'

 

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There is the option to add Rep (Reputation)

 

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To add Rep, click on the star after 'Send PM'

 

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Though I will point out that if you Thank someone before clicking on the Star it won't work. As they are one of the last people you have given Rep to, in the smaller form of Thanks. If you unthank them, then click the star, add your comment, click ok (and ironically you an re-thank them after this), you could give them the additional Rep points.

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Well... I have one secret about me that I was planning to take to my grave... but...

 

I can see the wake now - "So tell me, why was the coffin full of lemonade ?"

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Hmm...

would you like to exterminate a jelly baby?

I am the child who rocked on his chair and cracked their skull that your teacher warned you about in school.

could also of been me i think i cracked my head open 3 times i remember (never a chair that i remember) swinging on the bars outside the school door feel off and head butted the tiles, ran into the school bell and got whacked on the head with a golf club and cycled about a mile home with blood pouring out of my head lol that last time they literally glued my head back together (also in the category of school in juries broke my collar bone twice the 2nd time id been out of the sling for a few weeks on the plus side i did learn to badly write left handed

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Took me and dad an hour to find the power button on our first family PC (Packard Bell), then the rest of the day to get from MS-DOS into Windows.
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Took me and dad an hour to find the power button on our first family PC (Packard Bell), then the rest of the day to get from MS-DOS into Windows.

 

No quick start guides in the good old days !

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No quick start guides in the good old days !

 

Or iPhones with wifi internet access to "google it" - we had dialup compucover, but only on the one PC and only once we got into Windows!

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