>>>>>>>Naomi, I'm already receiving tiresome e-mails from a certain person making snide comments about another UT member and would prefer not to communicate with that person any further. I guess I'll have to change my address.
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>>>>>>Are they the ones about my being paranoid? They are, aren't they?! Who's been sending them? Come on! How many have they sent. What else did they say about me? It's not true - I'm not paranoid and all the people who say so are wrong ... and persecutary. They're after me.
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>>>>>And remember Terry, just because your paranoid, it doesn't mean they're not out to get you...
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>>>>That's like one of those sayings which they usd to outfox powerful computers in the 1960s/70s TV dramas and movies (which inevitably, inexorably led to the computer smoking, then going mad, then blowing up the whole building - or in "Logun's Run"'s case the whole damn city. They just didn't put anti-virus or anti-conundrum software in them in those days!)
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>>>Don't forget the flashing lights. If it doesn't have flashing lights, it's not a real computer.
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>>>Years ago there was a thing going around, a spoof of the IBM 360/370 assembly language instruction set. One of them was FLI -- Flash Lights Impressively.
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>>>Some others I remember --
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>>>DTVFL -- Destroy Third Variable From Left
>>>DBZ -- Divide By Zero
>>>HCF -- Halt and Catch Fire
>>>BAC -- Branch to Alpha Centauri
>>>RDA -- Refuse to Disclose Answer
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>>:-)
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>>I saw a film once where someone accidentally spilt a cup of coffee into the computer keyboard. The goodies only just escaped with their lives as the whole complex blew up because of this. Ridiculous!
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>>Did you ever see the end of the British ITC drama cult series "The Prisoner", starring Patrick McGooan? He bust the computer by typing in the question "WHY?"
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>I saw it a couple of times when I was a kid but don't remember that episode.
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>How about a nice game of chess?

Or tic-tac-toe. War Games.