NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/alt/callahan/17555

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From: [e-mail] (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Uh....
Date: 25 Jan 1993 10:14:59 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Ching-I Chen) writes:
=Someone is sitting in front of a computer terminal, amid a forest of
=SUNs, WYSE's, IBM's and Mac's.  Confused-looking college students wander
=in and out of the computer lab, trying to appear in control when in fact
=they are incredibly lost.  She feels lost too, not even able to remember
=her own name... but she still grins goofily at the blinking orange cursor.
=The cursor does not smile back.

They seldom do.  However, I've got a fair amount of expertise with VMS and UNIX
operating systems, and some experience with MS-DOS.  Let me know if there's
anything I can do to help you with the computers.

=Someone does not know what she is doing, but she is enjoying it nonetheless.
=The undigestible remnants of the tuna-and-vegetable surprise she wolfed
=down at lunch today are settling in her stomach.  In a matter of hours she'll
=no doubt be nauseous.  But she'll enjoy it nonetheless.

Look on the bright side:  You *COULD* have eaten at Jack-in-the-Box.

=Someone hopes she isn't disturbing the usual going-ons here.  If so, she
=apologizes and regrets her actions deeply.
=
=Someone is trying to say something.  You can barely hear it through the
=Shakespear's Sister tape blaring in the background.  It sounds like... is
=she cussing?  No, now she's shaking her head.  "F.A.Q!" she shouts
=emphatically.  Gesticulating wildly (is there any other way?) she manages
=to convey that she'd like the said F.A.Q. if at all possible.

Should be arriving shortly in the mail.