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RE: For John Carr's Long Grey Line

  • Subject: RE: For John Carr's Long Grey Line
  • From: "Wills, Mike N. (TC)" <MNWills@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 09:16:51 -0500
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.



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