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Re: HFQ snippet request
Post by Charybdis   » Mon Jan 05, 2015 4:42 pm

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USMA74 wrote:Rapid pursuer of crunchy green vegetables of limited nutritional value, it is time to get back to work and feed adicts (like myself) a new snippet unless you really enjoy wadding through pages upon pages of our collective begging. :twisted: Please feed the beast and post a new snippet because I really want to know what caused the first sentence in the next chapter to occur.

You are assuming facts not in evidence! Said speedy unearthly consumer of a vegetative growth, whose name rhymes with salary, is as likely as not to leave that sentence 'dangling' and move on to other portions of the book. Remember he is also known as MWW and I call him a smiling but vicious one for his use of dual value ellipses that more resemble Schrödinger's cat box!

NONETHELESS - Please oh purveyor of tantalizing tidbits of taunting words, give us some more!
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Re: HFQ snippet request
Post by Alistair   » Mon Jan 05, 2015 4:53 pm

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sigh still waiting...
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Re: HFQ snippet request
Post by McGuiness   » Mon Jan 05, 2015 5:12 pm

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Keith_w wrote:
McGuiness wrote:You said it as well as I could - although you skipped the part where a certain billionaire lied to IBM, claiming he had an Operating System, then raced across town and offered a buddy $50,000 (that he didn't have) to buy his knockoff of CPM! And thus the computer industry was shackled for decades... and counting! :x

On the bright side we know that Merlin doesn't run on Windows, or he'd have to reboot occasionally! :lol:

Yeah, but in his favour, you have to admit that he wasn't an billionaire at the time - I wouldn't be surprised if he hadn't had to borrow that 50K to buy DOS.
Nope, he didn't have the money at all. He paid the $50k with the advance IBM gave him once they saw him demo the CP/M knockoff he'd "bought" from his acquaintance.

The entire PC world was changed for the worst by the most lucrative con job in history... :(

On the bright side, he'll eventually join Clyntahn and his inquisitors in their warm, cozy destination in the afterlife, so take solace in that thought whenever you have to reboot your computer or get the dreaded BSOD! ;)
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Re: HFQ snippet request
Post by n7axw   » Mon Jan 05, 2015 7:58 pm

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n7axw wrote:A new snippet tomorrow... I hope. Now we see how good I am as a prognosticator...

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Lousy prognosticator... :o

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Re: HFQ snippet request
Post by Keith_w   » Mon Jan 05, 2015 8:08 pm

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6L6 wrote:Mine too.

I hope we get one before mine - Oct 4.
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Re: HFQ snippet request
Post by Henry Brown   » Mon Jan 05, 2015 8:17 pm

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chrisd wrote:Please, pretty please, can I have a snippet for my Birthday?
(6th January FYI)


Great idea. Hope you get it. And then I hope I get one for my birthday as well. (January 19th)
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Re: HFQ snippet request
Post by 6L6   » Mon Jan 05, 2015 8:21 pm

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Watching StarGate on the S F Channel, It's on it's way through the worm hole right now.
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Re: HFQ snippet request
Post by fallsfromtrees   » Tue Jan 06, 2015 12:07 am

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Keith_w wrote:
6L6 wrote:Mine too.

I hope we get one before mine - Oct 4.

According to the schedule on Amazon, we should get the whole book by then :lol:
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Re: HFQ snippet request
Post by Bahzellstudent   » Tue Jan 06, 2015 4:18 pm

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I know someone who has a friend who has a birthday tomorrow - perhaps we could have a snippet for her please? (well I'm trying to get a bite!)
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Re: HFQ snippet request
Post by RHWoodman   » Tue Jan 06, 2015 6:06 pm

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