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- From: garrett@Ingres.COM (WE'RE ONLY HERE BECAUSE WE'RE NOT ALL HERE)
- Subject: Re: help friendly alien Re: Help with XMS mailer on my Game-Boy?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.233738.7536@pony.Ingres.COM>
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- References: <1992Nov13.170110.12240@ida.liu.se> <shephard.721774898@sfu.ca> <1992Nov17.185607.17577@ncmicro.lonestar.org> <168A4EF1A.EIVERSO@cms.cc.wayne.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 23:37:38 GMT
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- In article <168A4EF1A.EIVERSO@cms.cc.wayne.edu>, glorp@planet.x writes...
- >>%_}>>Hahaha! Fools! You think that's impressive? I've wired together every
- >>%_}>>computer on the Internet with Quantum-Thin Wire (tm), and programmed it
- >>%_}>>to act like a really big abacus. Running 8 x 10^100^10^10^10^4
- >>%_}>>calculations a millisecond, I hope to solve the equation 5x = 10
- >>%_}>>by sometime next week. Now _that's_ progress.
- >>%_}>Then how about this: I've constructed the first computer ever made of one
- >>%_}>single Hydrogen atom. There are a couple of advantages with it; 1. it can
- >>%_}>be inhaled for transport; 2. it relies entirely on voice-detecting for input,
- >>%_}>and a hologram for output (that was the tricky part), and 3. it creates
- >>%_}>two copies of itself every second, allowing for multiple processes! I'm
- >>%_}>speaking this reply right now to a cloud in front of me, using a Voice
- >>%_}>Detection version (mine, really) of X-Windows in 3D. NEXT!
- >>%_}All accomplishments pale beside mine: Managed to re-write DOS 5.0 so that
- >>%_}it breaks the the 640K barrier.
- >
- >greetings earthlings,
- >
- >i am glorp of planet x. my starship has crashed landed on earth.
- >since there are so many smart earthings here, perhaps one of you
- >can fix a fleeblebrox generator (model z9999-q) that is on the fritz.
- >any help will be appreciated.
-
- The old z9999-q model. I haven't seen one of those since the Andromeda
- galaxy imploded. Perhaps one of these lightweight engineers could handle
- this one.
- >
- >adTHANKSvance
- >glorp of planet x
-