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2006-12-31 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Free Radical 2006-12-31 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1734 views since 2007-05-07] Top

1 GIGO. PIMF.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2006-12-31 01:13|| 2006-12-31 01:13|| Front Page Top

2 Sorry Alaska Paul,

What is GIGO?
(I know what PIMF is, I have had to use it too many times already!)

~FR~

Posted by Free Radical">Free Radical 2006-12-31 08:06|| 2006-12-31 08:06|| Front Page Top

3 Garbage In, Garbage Out. It goes back to the earliest days of computing machines, Free Radical, about which I have read in story books. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2006-12-31 08:19|| 2006-12-31 08:19|| Front Page Top

4 Reminds me of the guy flying from LA to Oakland and got on a flight to Aukland, NZ.

Posted by phil_b 2006-12-31 08:35|| 2006-12-31 08:35|| Front Page Top

5 Or a domestic argument I saw on a sitcom: "You knew my mother wanted a ticket to Boston and you heard her say Bosnia and you never said a word!"

Posted by Grunter 2006-12-31 08:46|| 2006-12-31 08:46|| Front Page Top

6 True story - my brother-in-law and I were coming back from a fishing trip in Alberta province and our bags got sent to Austin instead of Boston.

Got the bags eventually, but I always wonder if the ticket counter agent got the hearing aid they needed.

Posted by no mo uro 2006-12-31 10:14|| 2006-12-31 10:14|| Front Page Top

7 Our Bud Free Radical's gotta be under 25.

Posted by Shipman 2006-12-31 10:55|| 2006-12-31 10:55|| Front Page Top

8 Back in 92 I was supposed to fly from Birmingham, Alabama to Portland, Maine. The Travel Agent said I would have to change planes in Dallas and again in Salt Lake City. She didn't know there was a Portland, Maine even though I had written it down. I could have wound up on the wrong side of the US.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2006-12-31 12:40|| 2006-12-31 12:40|| Front Page Top

9 Lol Shipman,

Please tell the Rantburg ladies that I am a very spry 38 years young.

And I *am* smacking myself on the head for not recognizing what GIGO is... I just didn't recognize it in the present context. I guess Alaska Paul's sense of humor was a bit abstract for me this morning.

Or maybe it was the whiskey? Who knows? :-D

Posted by Free Radical">Free Radical 2006-12-31 12:50|| 2006-12-31 12:50|| Front Page Top

10 Oh, and thank you too TW- please give the TH and all of your family a very happy New Year from here in NYC!

Posted by Free Radical">Free Radical 2006-12-31 12:56|| 2006-12-31 12:56|| Front Page Top

11 "I didn't notice the mistake as my son is usually good with computers," his mother, Sabine, told Reuters.

Geography and spelling, now, never could pass those subjects. But computers - real good.

Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-12-31 14:15|| 2006-12-31 14:15|| Front Page Top

12 Why thank you, Free Radical, dear. I most certainly will -- and a happy New Year to you and yours, and to all Rantburgers far and near!

Posted by trailing wife 2006-12-31 14:17|| 2006-12-31 14:17|| Front Page Top

13 There was one more in the '80's...GOGEGarbage Out, Garbage Explained I think it was the start of feel goodness. ie: He meant well.

Posted by Phineter Thraviger 2006-12-31 15:14|| 2006-12-31 15:14|| Front Page Top

14 I have CICO going on, on a regular basis--Cats In Cats Out--usually at the same time.

There is this an on-going joke in Austria that American tourists want to see kangaroos in the wild. Based in this dude geographical prowess, I have to surmise that they made it up to cover up their deficiencies. ;-)

Posted by twobyfour 2006-12-31 16:21|| 2006-12-31 16:21|| Front Page Top

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