what in the world will we do (HUMOR)

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(got this in an e-mail)

Corporate has defined a lower cost alternative for Desktop conversions that also addresses the Y2K (Year 2000).

Issue: The goal is to remove all computers from the desktop by Jan, 1999. Instead, everyone will be provided with an Etch-A-Sketch. There are many sound reasons for doing this:

1. No Y2K problems 2. No technical glitches, keeping work from being done. 3. No more wasted time reading and writing e-mails. 4. Substantial hardware cost savings.

Frequently Asked Questions from the Etch-A-Sketch Help Desk:

Q: My Etch-A-Sketch has all of these funny little lines all over the screen. What do I do? A: Pick it up and shake it

Q: How do I turn my Etch-A-Sketch off? A: Pick it up and shake it.

Q: What's the shortcut for Undo? A: Pick it up and shake it.

Q: How do I create a New Document window? A: Pick it up and shake it.

Q: How do I set the background and foreground to the same color? A: Pick it up and shake it.

Q: What is the proper procedure for rebooting my Etch-A-Sketch? A: Pick it up and shake it.

Q: How do I delete a document on my Etch-A-Sketch? A: Pick it up and shake it.

Q: How do I save my Etch-A-Sketch document? A: Don't shake it.

-- John Howard (Greenville, NC) (pcdir@prodigy.net), October 06, 1998

Answers

:-) Blondie

-- Blondie Marie (Blondie@future.net), October 06, 1998.

To those who are younger "what is an etch a sketch?' LOL

-- carrie (private@aol.com), October 06, 1998.

LOVE this joke. Am sending it to everyone I know. My sisters and I were big big Etch-a-Sketch kids back in the 50s and 60s...They have a permutation of it now, called a Doodle Dome...3D. And anybody ever do Spirographs?

Thanks for posting the joke. A needful goodness.

-- Donna Barthuley (moment@pacbell.net), October 06, 1998.


Oh, almost forgot,...I still have an Etch-a-Sketch...gonna go dig it out of the closet. Needs a place of honor next to the PC.

-- Donna Barthuley (moment@pacbell.net), October 06, 1998.

I used to keep a slide rule pinned up on the wall in my home computer area. Next to it was a sign reading "In Case of Computer Failure..." I never did find a glass case, so I left out the "break glass" part.

Went looking for the the slide rule a week or so ago, and now I can't find it. Dangit.

-- Larry Kollar (lekollar@nyx.net), October 06, 1998.



Donna, I loved Spirograph! It's amazing how we got along so well without video games! :-)

-- Gayla Dunbar (privacy@please.com), October 06, 1998.

I know this is somewhat off topic but I've been laughing a lot tonight, and thinking about fun for the first time in weeks...for those of you thinking about good box games...how about some of the old ones....Like: Parchesi, Chinese checkers, Sorry,...I think I might still have my kids' Mouse Trap Game...There's more but the Spirograph and Etch-a-Sketch talk sent me on a trip in the "way-back" machine.

Ah...it's good to laugh.

-- Donna Barthuley (moment@pacbell.net), October 07, 1998.


Well, last night my 9 year-old son just beat his Dad and me (it was aclose game, really!) on the very low-tech game of "Boggle."

I highly recommend it for your the post-Nintendo days game collection, along with such classics as "Scrabble" and for the younger set, "Chutes and Ladders".

We are even storing enough arts and crafts materials and dice, etc. to create our OWN games.

Oh, don't forget "Monopoly" -- but instead of the paper money that comes with the set, we can just use our currency, which should have about the same value as the other play money.

-- Sara Nealy (keithn@ptd.net), October 07, 1998.


Hey,...maybe we could use Monopoly money to start our own community monetary system, like they are doing in towns like Ithaca, New York. There, along with the federal reserve scrap they have Ithaca Dollars. You can find many websites on alternative money systems. Do a search for "Ithaca Dollars".

Just a thought,...Monopoly money is cute, too!

LOL

-- Donna Barthuley (moment@pacbell.net), October 07, 1998.


Come to think of it US dollars look like monopoly money to us anyway, as do euro dollars. Why on earth did Hertz was it rename it Eurodollar, odd name for car rental company. I've got a collection of 1923 inflation money from Germany, the notes went from elaborate large designs on linen type paper to unbelievable numbers printed on toilet paper. They had something called a Milliard (thousand million I think, billion was million million). They had wheelbarrows to help though. Of course the UK pound has been going downhill ever since they got rid of those old fivers (about the size of a tabloid newspaper). Its going completely soon.

-- Richard Dale (rdale@figroup.co.uk), October 07, 1998.


I kept the role-playing stuff I had in college (Dungeons & Dragons and Traveller). Both bought before the advent of personal computers (well, before capable computers were widespread anyway). The kids have shown some interest already.

Trust me, it's an excellent way to kill time, exercises strategic and logical thinking, simple math skills, language arts (all our groups kept journals & records of what happened), and negotiation skills. Ancillary activities include painting the lead figures, creating maps, and so on.

-- Larry Kollar (lekollar@nyx.net), October 07, 1998.


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