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- From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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- Subject: Re: An observation
- Date: 27 Dec 1992 23:57:49 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester) says:
-
- >On Sun, 27 Dec 1992 05:08:45 GMT Ruth M. Hanschka said:
- >>> tonite friends coming over to play bridge....and tomorrow will do for
- >>>office cleaning, won't it?
- >>>
- >>Yep - there's no day like tomorrow for cleaning stuff.
- >>
- > riught on...and thats when it'll be....
- >
- That's the great thing about tomorrow - it never gets here...
-
- > gail is now scarfing up some frozen yogurt...and i'm full of junkfood while
- >playing bridge....did have one great moment....i put a cd on the player down
- >staris while gail was downstairs....and was trying to make it work....
- >hadn't realized that someone had pushed the alternate speakers button....and
- >there ARE no alternate speakers....so it was cranked with no sound coming out.
- >and gail was just starting to steam the milk....and had read all the directions
- >about dangers of steam and not blowing up the expresso maker....the fm was
- >between stations....and i hit the speaker button in my oneeye mode....and
- >it BLASTED static and noise.....and the fringes of a metalstation....
-
- <ROFL>! SHould have turned the volume down first, dude...:-) You also should
- have set the dial to a station before switching inputs....<LOL> OUUUUUCH!
- [and I thought a little feedback was bad....]
-
- >and after a few seconds i got it shut off....but meanwhile our friends
- >said 'is gail allright'???and i realized she was in the kitchen justabout
- >passed out from fright....she was REALLY panicked....but i went out and
- >picked her up from the edge of counter....and she came around....
- >
- >all is well now....and I THINK she can laugh about it now..... 8-)
- >
- If she can't, I can! I shouldn't, maybe [it's not PC and it's inseneitive
- to boot] but it *is* funny. She probably looked like my cat when the toy
- train came chugging around the track...and goosed her.<grin> We're talking
- ten pounds of engine and about the same of cat...colliding... Although why a
- lousy blast of static would panic anyone, I don't know. Me, it just sends
- through the roof, holding my ears, as well as creating a true desire to
- swat the perpetrator.:-) Maybe I'm just weird?
- --
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