RE: For John Carr's Long Grey Line

["Wills, Mike N. (TC)" <MNWills@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: Message

Who said you have to be....um....experienced in the world to enjoy this? Us young punks can understand it also!

 

I for one thought that is was good!

 

 

Mike Wills

IT Corporate Support

MNWills@taylorcorp.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Portal39@aol.com [mailto:Portal39@aol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 8:01 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: For John Carr's Long Grey Line

A POEM FORCOMPUTER USERS OVER 40 

    A computer was something on TV 
    From a science fiction show of note 
    A window was something you hated to clean 
    And ram was the father of a goat. 

    Meg was the name of my girlfriend 
    And gig was a job for the nights 
    Now they all mean different things 
    And that really mega bytes. 

    An application was for employment 
    A program was a TV show 
    A cursor used profanity 
    A keyboard was a piano. 
    Memory was something that you lost with age 
    A CD was a bank account 
    And if you had a 3-in. floppy 
    You hoped nobody found out. 
    Compress was something you did to the garbage 
    Not something you did to a file 
    And if you unzipped anything in public 
    You'd be in jail for a while. 

    Log on was adding wood to the fire 
    Hard drive was a long trip on the road 
    A mouse pad was where a mouse lived 
    And a backup happened to your commode. 

    Cut you did with a pocket knife 
    Paste you did with glue 
    A web was a spider's home 
    And a virus was the flu. 

    I guess I'll stick to my pad and paper 
    And the memory in my head. 

    I hear nobody's been killed in a computer crash 
    But when it happens they wish they were dead.