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by jdmccrumb (imported)
Mon Jan 23, 2012 7:32 pm
Forum: The Deep, Dark Cellar
Topic: What an opera! The Concordia. Too bad it was real.
Replies: 18
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Re: What an opera! The Concordia. Too bad it was real.

The most appropriate nickname I have heard is "Chicken of the Sea"
by jdmccrumb (imported)
Fri Oct 15, 2010 12:38 pm
Forum: Chemical Castration & Hormones
Topic: Inhouse Pharmacy UK domain problems
Replies: 13
Views: 0

Re: Inhouse Pharmacy UK domain problems


Hi everyone,

I got an email today from Inhouse Pharmacy, telling me that they had been "experiencing problems" with their UK domain names, and were using a Vanuatu domain name - http://www.inhousepharmacy.vu/ - instead. I noticed that the US domain names went down a few weeks ago, and that they ...
by jdmccrumb (imported)
Thu Jan 14, 2010 10:15 am
Forum: Archive Technical Help
Topic: 3d Television
Replies: 8
Views: 11

Re: 3d Television

I will get 3D television just as soon as one no longer has to wear the dorky glasses in order to watch it.

JD
by jdmccrumb (imported)
Wed Aug 19, 2009 6:41 pm
Forum: Jokes, Links, Media & More
Topic: the old days of dail up!
Replies: 14
Views: 0

Re: the old days of dail up!


I worked on computers much older than that by at least 30 years. The oldest was an IBM 1401, it was about 6 ft high, 8 ft long and 4 ft wide, had 8k of memory, all of it was wire. The card reader was a dual purpose machine it read and punched cards, from each side of the machine, the printer had a ...
by jdmccrumb (imported)
Tue Aug 18, 2009 6:50 am
Forum: Jokes, Links, Media & More
Topic: the old days of dail up!
Replies: 14
Views: 0

Re: the old days of dail up!

OK, you got this REALLY old fart to climb out of his attic.

1979... the computer was a 'new' Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 1.

Add to the expansion interface this thing called a UART!?

(Universal Asysncronous Receiver/Transmitter) a serial port.

Plug in a genuine Bell 212A 300/1200baud 'high speed ...
by jdmccrumb (imported)
Wed Aug 13, 2008 6:46 am
Forum: Jokes, Links, Media & More
Topic: Manure... An interesting fact
Replies: 5
Views: 0

Re: Manure... An interesting fact

According to Snopes

http://www.snopes.com/language/acronyms/shit.asp

The word shit entered modern English language derived from the Old English nouns scite and the Middle Low German schite, both meaning "dung," and the Old English noun scitte, meaning "diarrhea." Our most treasured cuss word has ...

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