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I came across this link, and thought that it might appeal to all those unfortunates among you who use M$ Word(yrch!). I found it funny, and thought that several others might as well. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/richard.bowring/computeraddons.htm
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Dear Max: I am indeed irritated by that dumb critter that wants to help me write letters. But even worse are the hidden macro keys I touch accidentally, that I have trouble getting rid of. But I can make Word work well enough I just don't get mad enough to change.
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Oh, Max ... thanks for the good laugh!
It reminded me of when we went to computers at the newspaper. Frustration was inevitable and it was late evening when someone gave in and typed a command to the computer "Fuck You!" The screen blinked and on the screen came the phrase "Your place or mine?"
There are two answers and as we ALL duplicated the question with either "mine" or "yours" the same answer came on screen. "Not today, dear, I have a headache."
Nice sense of humor those ATEX programmers had ... and obviously they knew frustration levels of learners and what we would do to release it! "Yell" at the computer.
And thanks for the new thread ...it is #5, by the way.
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Max, I take it the naming of this thread was meant to be deliciously ironic given the subject matter? 
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Max Thanks for the laughs.
I've just been pushed over to our 2000 server & am going through all the crap involved in being one of the first . Like having to find email lists & finding / setting readable font's instead of the defaults(sp?), in addition to my job of course.
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Max Thanks for the laughsYou're welcome. I am in a very cheerful mood, unlike the poor, tired, Hoddled masses, one of whom is Aboard as I speak. To one who knows of what I am speaking, ha ha, told ya so, enjoy your exile! 
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I, for one, have no problem with Word, besides sometimes not recognizing a word. The first and only time I ever saw the paperclip guy was 4 years ago, on a school computer. He has never since made any contact with me whatsoever. He probably was scared out of his wits by the fact that I didn't need his help.
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Today's 'nafffact' in the Melbourne Age newspaper:
"In the state of Kentucky, it is illegal to carry ice-cream in your back pocket."
Any Kentuckians care to comment?
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Time back way back when you could tell what response time was going to be by looking at the blinking lights on the front panel of the mainframe we used to have Engineering Day when non-computer science/engineering students would be given tours of the School of Engineering. Someone would inevitably type in "fuck you" on one of the terminals available for common use. The system would reply, "Access to processor denied by installation."
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The system would reply, "Access to processor denied by installation."
NO sense of humor, those academic programmers. I liked the ATEX response much more better.
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