Re: Too much computer heat? (wink, wink :-)

From: david raoul derbes (loki_at_midway.uchicago.edu)
Date: 05/19/04 

Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 19:10:58 GMT

In article <CwDqc.7112$XI4.258241@news.xtra.co.nz>,
Ross Durie <rdurie@caverock.net.nz> wrote:
>I thought "wanker" was a word not used in the U.S.

It still isn't widely used, but it's, errr, growing.

I heard the term in the mid 1970's as a US grad student in
Britain. New to me then.

But, especially with the web, it's a small world after all,
just as Walt Disney once said.

David Derbes

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>Ross
>"George" <mrdelurkHAIR@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:mrdelurkHAIR-ya02408000R1805041938330001@news-server.hawaii.rr.com...
>> I was strolling through the aisles of the local computer superstore today,
>> when I came upon a whole shelfful of hard drive cooling fan retrofits.
>> "Aha, here's the stuff for the power users who put those scorching hot 250
>> Gig Maxtors in their machines" - I thought.
>>
>> Then I read the blurb on one of the fan packages. "For the serious modder.
>> Because you play hard or you don't play."
>>
>> Wait a second. Computer games may take a Gig or two of hard drive space
>> when installed, but none that I ever heard of needs hundreds of Gigs and
>> the hot drives that carry them. The only online activity I ever did that
>> can fill 250 Gigs relatively fast is downloading porn pictures and videos
>> from the Net. (The only activity for which the latest crop of computers
>> seem to be optimized for.)
>>
>> Then it hit me. Oh, stupid me. What did I expect this company to put on
>the
>> package, "For the serious w@nker"? I should have gotten the hint right
>away
>> from the "you play hard or you don't play" :-))
>>
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