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Hits awful close to home! Message #1 Posted by Dave Shaffer (Arizona) on 4 Aug 2011, 2:55 p.m. Found THIS while wandering around the web. An appalling number of these apply to me, and I suspect a lot of others here. In particular, about 40% of the way down is an explicit reference to our favorite type of calculator, and the last couple are relevant to anybody who has an HP-01. I suspect the above link will be around only for today, so I have put a copy at my site where it will reside for a while.

Re: Hits awful close to home! Message #2 Posted by Neil Hamilton (Ottawa) on 4 Aug 2011, 3:13 p.m., in response to message #1 by Dave Shaffer (Arizona) A few weeks ago a friend sent me this: The Knack I agree, WAY too close to home! Edit: Sorry wrong link. Now corrected... Edited: 4 Aug 2011, 9:29 p.m.

Re: Hits awful close to home! Message #3 Posted by bill platt on 4 Aug 2011, 10:06 p.m., in response to message #1 by Dave Shaffer (Arizona) Oh no. I am doomed. I think this one has been around a while--"wristwatch" who wears them any longer? "450MHz Pentium"? So this dates to 1998? Still pretty much right on. Dilbert is still my hero!

Re: Hits awful close to home! Message #4 Posted by mike reed on 5 Aug 2011, 11:05 p.m., in response to message #3 by bill platt I actually did something very similar to the following: An engineer comes home after work one day and his wife greets him and asks "i need something from the store, but I'm busy and can't go just now - would you mind going for me?" "No problem" he replies, "What do you need?" "I need a gallon of milk. If they have eggs get six." He goes marketing and returns home about 45 minutes later, carrying 6 gallons of milk. "Why the hell did you get 6 gallons of milk?" his incredulous wife demands. He replies in confusion "They had eggs!"

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