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Subject:Re: Names for things, part 2 From:Wade Courtney <wade -dot- courtney -at- gmail -dot- com> To:Ladonna Weeks <ladonnaweeks -at- yahoo -dot- com> Date:Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:54:42 -0700
ROFLMAO, get out your tin foil hats.
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Ladonna Weeks <ladonnaweeks -at- yahoo -dot- com>wrote:
> It's my mom again. She had to learn the difference between the screen and
> the monitor. Apparently something is wrong with her computer. She was moving
> things around and probably disconnected something. But there was a lighted
> thing in the bottom right hand corner and I finally got it out of her that
> the _screen_ was dark but the _monitor_ had a light on. And I had to make it
> clear to her that the computer was a different piece. Then, to top it off,
> my schizophrenic brother was trying to help her. He is delusional and thinks
> he is an expert on all things computer hardware. He was explaining to me
> that two satellites had collided and that once the download was complete,
> the computer would be OK. He had my mom convinced that he had the solution
> to the problem but I told her what he said was (expletive deleted). She is
> going to have to get somebody local to see what she has disconnected. I
> guess this is marginally on topic since we were discussing
> terminology.
>
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