Roy Wood Wrote:-
And someone (he shall remain nameless for modesty's sake) once sent me
an email to tell me he had successfully updated his notebook. His
message read 'I now have a big hard dik on my laptop'
Hmmm
I recall Simon Goodwin and a certain Mr. Dilwyn Jones hacking away
contently
The spoonerism in my book has to be:
He is a real shining wit if ever there was one
John Taylor.
At 02:36 ìì 30/1/2002 +, you wrote:
The spoonerism in my book has to be:
He is a real shining wit if ever there was one
John Taylor.
I for one don't know about Spoonerism's but I do know a lot about Bush'isms :-)
Makes for a good laugh every time (He's even worse than the Greek PM :-)
I fell around in fits of laughter, and the look of embarrassment
mixed with
fear on Simons face was a picture, he turned to face Dil slowly
wondering
did he really mean it, and then Dil realised what he had actually
said and
turned bright red, covering his face with his hands. Priceless.
I kept
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 at 20:59:18, Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:
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At 01:06 ðì 29/1/2002 +, you wrote:
^-- that Greek is nice.
I hadn't noticed until my mailer complained
on posting.
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On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 at 09:14:43, Norman Dunbar wrote:
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When I worked at BMW in Munich, they buy our software, we had to learn how
to use a Germoan layout - interesting !
When we came home again and had to use an UK layout, we had all sorts of fun
- every 'w' was
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Oh yes - it is worth repeating my favourite 'mistyping' story.
In my Kodak days (urkk over 30 years ago) we had a very unhappy typist.
^ whoops - should have been Ford
Now that is some typing mistake (8-)#
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Norman Dunbar wrote:
When we came home again and had to use an UK layout, we had all sorts of fun
- every 'w' was replaced by a 'z' for about a week afterwards.
You sure you mean the 'w'? English and German layouts only have the
'y' and 'z' swapped.
Marcel
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 at 11:51:30, wrote:
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Secretary with shift 4 problem
Me: Ummm ... And you're definitely keeping Shift pressed while typing
the 4?
Her: Oh. No. Do I have to do that?
... D'oh!
unbelievable amount snipped
: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 1:48 PM
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Subject: Re: [ql-users] win format
Norman Dunbar wrote:
When we came home again and had to use an UK layout, we had all sorts of
fun
- every 'w' was replaced by a 'z' for about a week afterwards.
You sure you mean the 'w'? English and German
And, the old favourite :
'press any key to continue' says the message on screen, so the user phones
the help desk to ask 'which is the ANY key?'
Norman.
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Norman Dunbar
Database/Unix administrator
Lynx Financial Systems Ltd.
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Tel:
It was indeed the 'y' and 'z' keys that we got all wrong.
Marc Swift has a simple but intelligent solution in QDOS Classic.
If it starts up with UK settings, you can use two commands to switch
to German:
KEYDT and KEZDT
Bye, Peter
Norman Dunbar wrote:
Sorry Marcel, you are correct, The AZERTY is French :o)
It was indeed the 'y' and 'z' keys that we got all wrong.
Oh, and for unix users, the three fingered '/' as well or was it something
else - I can't remember now, it's been over two years since I was last
there.
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Subject: Re: [ql-users] win format
SNIP
But it's a matter of getting used to it, I have used German layouts
almost my whole live so I have no big problem with it. Especially as I
usually can type faster than think about what to type anyway ;-)
Marcel
This email is intended only
Since we are now hooked on typos, this is confession time. Very OT, but too
good to miss.
Back in the bad old days before word processors were invented, I typed with
two fingers a document for my trade union.
Problems of staffing not due to bad management appeared as Problems of
staffing not
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 at 19:47:37, Geoff Wicks wrote:
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Since we are now hooked on typos, this is confession time. Very OT, but too
good to miss.
Back in the bad old days before word processors were invented, I typed with
two fingers a document for my trade union.
Norman Dunbar wrote:
When I worked at BMW in Munich, they buy our software, we had to
learn how
to use a Germoan layout - interesting !
^
|
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Intentional typo, Norman??? ;-)
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Dilwyn Jones
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Even more OT but I heard it on R4 this afternoon live, so at least
100%
genuine and topical:
Instead of 'gas fired power-stations', an interviewee said
'Gas powered fire stations'. I almost drove into the braking car in
front laughing.
He he, good job you drive a Volvo then (unless the car in
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The best keyboard/typing one I ever heard was from a friend who works in
the Call Centre for Microsoft. Apparently this story is a legend in there.
This girl calls up to say she can't get Word 6 (back in Win 3.1 days here)
to work on her
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SNIP
As the Chinese would say 'interesting times' !
No - 'Interlesting Tlimes'
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Since we are now hooked on typos, this is confession time. Very OT, but too
good to miss.
Back in the bad old days before word processors were invented, I typed with
two fingers a document for my trade union.
Problems of
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 at 20:59:59, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
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Even more OT but I heard it on R4 this afternoon live, so at least
100%
genuine and topical:
Instead of 'gas fired power-stations', an interviewee said
'Gas powered fire stations'. I almost
We have some newspeople who don't think at all when they type.
Dennis
N9VRB
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I find that I'm too busy thinking while
On 30 Jan 2002 at 0:10, Tony Firshman wrote:
Some of his Spoonerisms:
He once addressed a group of farmers as ye noble tons of
soil,
queried after a university official by asking Is the bean
dizzy?
and admonished a student because he had tasted two worms
and hissed
all my mystery
At least I undertstand the real meaning of the message :
Hard disk failure
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And someone (he shall remain nameless
format
We have some newspeople who don't think at all when they type.
Dennis
N9VRB
ICQ #801900
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I find that I'm too busy thinking
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Norman Dunbar wrote:
When I worked at BMW in Munich, they buy our software, we had to
learn how
to use a Germoan
Hi all,
Neitherut wanted some info on the qxl.wion file format. Perhaps the
znclosed filz will help.
I'm sorry, I can't remember where I got this info, so I can't give
credit where it is due.
Wolfgang
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www.wlenerz.com
Main header of device
+00 longQLWA
+04 word
In message 3C5592E5.2964.1E98374@localhost, Wolfgang Lenerz
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Hi all,
Neitherut wanted some info on the qxl.wion file format. Perhaps the
znclosed filz will help.
I'm sorry, I can't remember where I got this info, so I can't give
credit where it is due.
Were you drunk
At 01:06 ðì 29/1/2002 +, you wrote:
In message 3C5592E5.2964.1E98374@localhost, Wolfgang Lenerz
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Hi all,
Neitherut wanted some info on the qxl.wion file format. Perhaps the
znclosed filz will help.
I'm sorry, I can't remember where I got this info, so I can't give
On 29 Jan 2002, at 1:06, Roy Wood wrote:
In message 3C5592E5.2964.1E98374@localhost, Wolfgang Lenerz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Hi all,
Neitherut wanted some info on the qxl.wion file format. Perhaps the
znclosed filz will help.
I'm sorry, I can't remember where I got this info, so I
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