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- From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
- Subject: Re: Computer Superstition
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.171857.10230@ra.msstate.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:18:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.141324.29177@jussieu.fr> yunes@fructidor.ibp.fr (The Lord) writes:
- >>We've all heard of common superstitions such as not walking under ladders
- >>and throwing salt over your left shoulder if you spill some, but are
- >>there any superstitions to do with computers?
- >
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- 'If you let a computer illiterate play with your brand new home computer,
- flames will shot out of the machine, melting the keyboard !'
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- Thats the one I know about, Jim.
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- Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM - Gulf Park Campus
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