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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 1 of 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 Hirsute Canines - Reprise #28189 05/02/01 09:30 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 M Max Quordlepleen OP Carpal Tunnel OP Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 I came across this one a couple of hours ago in a sotware support NG I frequent. As a search here established that it does not appear to have been posted here before, I offer it for your perusal (however you define that word). So this is a story about a very intelligent dog, named Mace, who belonged to a mechanic. The mechanic was very pleased with everything the dog did except one thing -- he ate too much grass. So much, in fact, that their respectable-looking lawn was turned into a dirt patch unless the family kept him indoors and only took him out to run on a leash on concrete sidewalks or dirt paths. So they did, and the grass grew back to a respectable length, and then a little longer, so it was like wading to walk across the lawn. One day the mechanic was out working on his car, and as he was quitting for the day, he dropped his most expensive wrench. In the grass. And it was lost. The whole family looked all over, but couldn't find it. That night, probably because of all the uproar about losing this expensive tool, Mace escaped from the house. Nobody noticed until next morning, when they went outside and found that all the grass had been chewed down to a respectable lawn length! And there, shining out in plain sight, was the wrench! The mechanic turned to his wonderful dog and said: "A Grazing Mace! How sweet the hound that saved a wrench for me!" Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Hirsute Canines - Reprise #28190 05/02/01 09:45 PM A Anonymous Unregistered Anonymous Unregistered A in a sotware support NG I frequent Wow... neat! btw, there's a pretty neat sotware download available for free at: http://www.drinks101.com/ Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Hirsute Canines - Reprise #28191 05/02/01 09:49 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 M Max Quordlepleen OP Carpal Tunnel OP Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 Wow... neat! btw, there's a pretty neat sotware download available for free at: http://www.drinks101.com/ Please forgive me, but being allergic to alcohol, I was somewhat underwhelmed by the software on offer. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Hirsute Canines - Reprise #28192 05/02/01 10:01 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear Max: If you like "sotware" you should enjoy sot fare. And an intolerance to alcohol is not allergic, in the conventional sense. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Hirsute Canines - Reprise #28193 05/02/01 11:39 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 M Max Quordlepleen OP Carpal Tunnel OP Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 And an intolerance to alcohol is not allergic, in the conventional sense. I used the word loosely, doc. I am allergic, in the histamine sense of the word, to grapes. Extending the use of "allergic" to my physical reaction to alcohol has the advantage of making clear that my aversion is not moral or dependence related, but that C5H2OH quite literally makes me sick. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Hirsute Canines - Reprise #28194 05/03/01 09:51 AM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England I used the word loosely, doc. I am allergic, in the histamine sense of the word, to grapes. Extending the use of "allergic" to my physical reaction to alcohol has the advantage of making clear that my aversion is not moral or dependence related, but that C5H2OH quite literally makes me sick. C5H2OH? Oh, I thought you were talking about alcohol. Hoist one for me! The idiot also known as Capfka ... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Hirsute Canines - Reprise #28195 05/03/01 01:53 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 My organic chemistry was sixty years ago, but I can still tell you any alcohol with five carbons is very hazardous to your health, and revolting to the palate,if it even gets past the lips. And I cannot imagine how you could build a molecule with the atoms specified. I suspect C2H5OH was meant. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Hirsute Canines - Reprise #28196 05/03/01 09:59 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 M Max Quordlepleen OP Carpal Tunnel OP Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 . I suspect C2H5OH was meant. Absolutely! A curious development I have noticed in the last few months is that I am inverting letters when typing(deliberate). This has nothing to do with the basic error above, but does mean that I have to spend a lot more time proof-reading. The odd thing is that my brain is issuing the command to hit the keys in the correct order, but somewhere along the chain, the order in which the keys get struck is reversed. I would estimate that this happens with around 50-70% of all the owrds(unintentional, left in for illustration) I type. Now, if only the "2" and the "5" were next to each other, I would be able to claim "typo!" Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Hirsute Canines - Reprise #28197 05/03/01 11:08 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 544 San Francisco, CA H Hyla addict Hyla addict H Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 544 San Francisco, CA Now, if only the "2" and the "5" were next to each other, I would be able to claim "typo!" pssst! Max! While nobody's listening - on the number pad thing - over there to the right - the 2 and the 5 are contiguous, even adjacent, one might even say juxtaposed, practically intimate, virtually the same key! So it was a typo, right? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Hirsute Canines - Reprise #28198 05/03/01 11:43 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear Max: How can I complain about your allowing me the privilege of a small feeble jest occasionally? I'm not sharp enough to penetrate some of the discussions on the board, and can only scavenge on small bits of debris. I thank you for allowing me that. 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