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My sister-in-law just tapped me on the shoulder and insisted I make a correction: it's spelled M-o-n-k-e-e-s[^].
Software Zen: delete this;
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I always thought it was Morons?
Give me coffee to change the things I can and wine to accept the things I cannot!
JaxCoder.com
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The Monkees was the first artificially created "boy band".
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Yep, to counter the Beatles. I thought they sucked!
Give me coffee to change the things I can and wine to accept the things I cannot!
JaxCoder.com
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Mike Hankey wrote: I thought they sucked!
So, not a believer then. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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forcing David Jones to change his professional name to David Bowie.
But I never wave bye bye
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Mike Hankey wrote: At first I thought she was kidding...
Only female goats kid.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Do bananas go to the doctor when they aren't peeling well?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I'm not sure about going bananas, but I think you must be like me:
I'm not suffering from insanity, I'm enjoying every minute of it!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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They usually get diagnosed with plantain fasciitis.
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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Software Zen: delete this;
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Only to doctors who can stand pudding up with them.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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figured they would split to get second and third opinions
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Only on sundaes
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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This is some wonderful stuff 
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This post[^] made me realize - the time to download an ISO around here is usually longer than the interval between power outages (Google it if you don't know what those are).
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Hah! You're lucky!
Back in the day we had dial-up, which crashed out if somebody else in the house lifted the phone ... or the wind was blowing ... or the stars were out of alignment.
I bought a copy of Half-Life back then, only to find it was this new-fangled "Steam app" thingy, and it wouldn't run until Steam had updated itself each time (do note that Half-Life was not an online game). Since it took considerably longer than the average "time to die" of dial up to download the steam update - and no, it didn't resume - I never got to play the game at all ...
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I had, probably still have somewhere, Half Life as I recall you didn't need to dial up, I didn't have a modem then. It was a bu**** never finished it...
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No, you didn't need dial up for H-L, you need it for Steam. And H-L wouldn't run until Steam was up to date ... 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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If memory serves it had a version of Steam that it was happy with...
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It must have. It's been decades, so I might be fuzzy on the details, but I remember installing the game from CD and playing it, without ever having gone online.
That said, I might have downloaded patches from elsewhere, burnt them on CD and brought them home to install from there. But I don't recall Steam being part of the vocabulary back then.
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I seem to remember that, A CD nothing more... you wanted a game you went to the shops handed over money and got media! Imagine telling kids in the futre you had Monkey island on 8 5.25 discs, 4 1.44 & 1 CDRom!.. 
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glennPattonWork wrote: you wanted a game you went to the shops handed over money and got media
That's still how I roll. No media? No purchase.
Mind you, I hardly play games anymore - but always make an exception for whatever becomes latest installment of the GTA franchise.
Although by now, it's had so many patches I'm not sure there's a single file that came from one of the eight DVDs that still matches what's on the hard drive.
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In a way you're right, we couldn't afford a computer (and didn't need one either) back when dial-up was the only connection available.
And steam was what we got when we boiled drinking water to kill the contaminants. 
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Member 14331076 wrote: steam was what we got when we boiled drinking water
We couldn't afford to boil water.
There were a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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