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[rstrong]

Nor do computers work anymore after they've been immersed in water.

That depends on the computer. Back in the '80s the computer store I was working for sold a PC that we demonstrated at computer shows submerged in a fish tank. (We were selling it to grain elevators and other high dust environments.)

[Seth Milner]

Nor do computers work anymore after they've been immersed in water.

That depends on the computer. Back in the '80s the computer store I was working for sold a PC that we demonstrated at computer shows submerged in a fish tank. (We were selling it to grain elevators and other high dust environments.)

Don't try to bust my bubble. When this computer gets baptized, it's going down for the last time.

[Vrede too]

As I once again don't open a notification of Seth Milner quoting me, I can't help but marvel at the narcissistic, illiterate stupidity of a poster that fancies himself to be sparring when 95% of his whining about me isn't being read.

[JTA]

Nor do computers work anymore after they've been immersed in water.

That depends on the computer. Back in the '80s the computer store I was working for sold a PC that we demonstrated at computer shows submerged in a fish tank. (We were selling it to grain elevators and other high dust environments.)

Don't try to bust my bubble. When this computer gets baptized, it's going down for the last time.

Did you not install the Windows update that makes your computer waterproof????

[Vrede too]

Do fish have people screensavers?

[O Really]

..., but my plans are to spend the remainder of my days doing what I loves mostest: boatin' and fishin' with my pal Spook, and to hell with the rest of the outside wurl; I've had my fill of it.

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I've got favorite interests, too, but I wouldn't want to live anywhere where those were the only things I could do.

[Seth Milner]

Did you not install the Windows update that makes your computer waterproof????

I did get a call from the Windows Technical Department offering to sell me that feature, but I declined.

As I once again don't open a notification of Seth Milner quoting me, I can't help but marvel at the narcissistic, illiterate stupidity of a poster that fancies himself to be sparring when 95% of his whining about me isn't being read.

Whining about me again, as usual. 0:-?> You can't help but marvel because your low IQ is a marvel.
You're not reading my posts? You really know how to hurt a guy, don't you? My world just came crashing down around me.

[Seth Milner]

..., but my plans are to spend the remainder of my days doing what I loves mostest: boatin' and fishin' with my pal Spook, and to hell with the rest of the outside wurl; I've had my fill of it.

I've got favorite interests, too, but I wouldn't want to live anywhere where those were the only things I could do.

Diff'rent strokes you know . . . I can still drive . . . or boat . . . or walk . . . or get carried:

[JTA]

...Oh well, guess Vrede too's going to have a sparring partner for a while longer, and I'll keep looking. :thumbsup:

Do you think we'uns don't have the innernets in Florida?

Gosh! You'll miss me!? I hadn't given much thought as to whether you'un's all had innernets, but my plans are to spend the remainder of my days doing what I loves mostest: boatin' and fishin' with my pal Spook, and to hell with the rest of the outside wurl; I've had my fill of it.

Do you think we'uns don't have the innernets in Florida?

we do, but they can't penetrate the lead shielding

Nor do computers work anymore after they've been immersed in water.

...Oh well, guess Vrede too's going to have a sparring partner for a while longer

Do you think ...

It's already been established that he doesn't.

That's what I'm talkin' about!

Got any winter bass fishing tips? I had an unsuccessful trip last week.

I did catch a stick though, that was pretty exciting.

[Vrede too]

What kind of cruel idiot names their Black Lab an extremely disparaging, offensive and contemptuous word used to refer to a black person? Why not "Nigger" or "Jigaboo", instead?

[rstrong]

"Spook" is a perfectly good name for a pet. "Spooky" on the other hand....

A friend's kids named their cat "Spooky." Which seemed perfectly reasonable, until one night it got out and he found himself walking down a residential street late at night yelling "SPOOOOKY!.... SPOOOOOOOOOOKY!...."

[JTA]

What kind of cruel idiot names their Black Lab an extremely disparaging, offensive and contemptuous word used to refer to a black person? Why not "Nigger" or "Jigaboo", instead?

I was reading a story by HP Lovecraft. In it, the protagonist had a black cat named "Niggerman".

[Vrede too]

It's only perfectly good and reasonable to walk down a lily white residential trailer park street late at night yelling "SPOOOOK!.... SPOOOOOOOOOOK!...."

Even then, some of the Bubba's will think you're warning them.

[O Really]

"Spook" has meanings and connotations not related to race disparagement, and was in use long before somebody decided to refer to black people as "spooks." If your name is "Mick" you're not going to change it just to keep from offending the Irish. And you're not going to quit buying "Spic 'n Span" because you're Hispanic.
"Nigger", on the other hand, does not.

[rstrong]

Even then, some of the Bubba's will think you're warning them.

That could end like Top Gear's visit to Alabama.

[O Really]

A fun list to compile would be things you can't buy or use because somebody somewhere has used the term disparagingly.
Starting with my previous examples, above, you can''t name your kid or dog "Mick" (nor listen to the Stones); you can't use Spic and Span;
etc.
...

[rstrong]

You have to use "Ted" instead of Rafael because of Republican xenophobia...

[O Really]

You certainly can't have "crackers" with your cheese, eat an "Oreo" or find a "nip" in the air. And you can't call your relative "uncle" unless he uses the full name "Thomas."

[Seth Milner]

Got any winter bass fishing tips? I had an unsuccessful trip last week.
Not being any kind of fishing expert, there's no special tips I can offer other than stay warm and stay dry; both make for a better fishing experience.

I did catch a stick though, that was pretty exciting.
I'm rather good at catching those as well; they taste better deep-fried . . . much better than crow.

[Vrede too]

rstrong. Seth Milner better not lose his dog in the wrong neighborhood.

O Really, do you think it's accidental when a Black Lab gets named "Spook" by a slaver flag defender?

Usage note

When referring to a black person, the term spook dates back to the 1940s. It is used with disparaging intent and is perceived as highly insulting. Black pilots who trained at Tuskegee Institute during World War II were called the Spookwaffe....

JTA,

H. P. Lovecraft: Race, ethnicity, and class

On the Creation of Niggers
by H. P. Lovecraft

When, long ago, the gods created Earth
In Jove's fair image Man was shaped at birth.
The beasts for lesser parts were next designed;
Yet were they too remote from humankind.
To fill the gap, and join the rest to Man,
Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.
A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
Filled it with vice, and called the thing a Nigger.