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To: JenB

I dunno...computers are different, somehow. Maybe because they rarely have that electronics smell that things like older stereos and electric typewriters and such have.

Remember when I got my first crockpot? I was on the list then. The first time I used it, I spent all morning practically having anxiety attacks, imagining my house burning down. I had to run home at lunch to check on it so I wouldn’t go crazy. Heh...


5,385 posted on 10/24/2007 10:59:10 AM PDT by RosieCotton ("Anything worth doing is worth doing badly." -- G.K. Chesterton)
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To: RosieCotton

Er...”on the list” meaning “in the Hobbit Hole”. What comes of switching from reading mailing list stuff to reading FR without brain reacclimatization.


5,386 posted on 10/24/2007 11:45:22 AM PDT by RosieCotton ("Anything worth doing is worth doing badly." -- G.K. Chesterton)
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To: RosieCotton
Maybe because they rarely have that electronics smell that things like older stereos and electric typewriters and such have.

They do if they are burned out like that one Jen toasted. Clearly she did not need two though since it has been over a month and she has not fixed it. Hmmm, maybe I will fix it myself and move it to my desk.
5,397 posted on 10/24/2007 1:04:02 PM PDT by TalonDJ
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