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- From: jeffrey@cygnus.com (Jeffrey Osier)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Long gone geeking
- Message-ID: <38945@hoptoad.uucp>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 10:30:05 GMT
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- Organization: Cygnus Support, Mountain View, CA; Phone +1 415 903 1400
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- The following are tidbits from a conversation I had with a friend once
- about who had been geeking longer. I think he won.
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- I've been geeking since fur was in fashion and democrats were
- president.
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- I've been a hardcore geek since before PacMan was as popular as
- Madonna is now.
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- I've been geeking since the first geek (a friend of mine) clubbed his
- girlfriend over the head with his pocket slide rule and dragged her
- off into his cave.
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- I started geeking when we had to play PONG with rocks. As a
- "programmer", I was responsible for standing on the sidelines and
- yelling out instructions:
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- 10 ROCK bob, phil
- 20 YELL ouch, phil
- 30 MOVE phil, bob's side
- 40 HIT phil, bob
- 50 CALL ambulance;
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- You see? Things were much more difficult then.
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- Ah, for just one time I would take 415 903 1400, 415 903 0122 (fax)
- the Northwest Passage, to find the jeffrey@cygnus.com
- hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea....
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