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Saturday, January 29, 2011

screamers

does everyone know that the exclamation point has a nickname? screamer. kathy made a comment implying that she did not like screamers. so, of course, i had to send her some mail asking her to explain...she did not respond. maybe she will feel like posting a comment today. and, feb 17 will be the one year anniversary of this blog. should we have a celebration?


oops below...that one was posted a couple days ago. i need a new filing system.

4 comments:

  1. Yes. You should definitely have a party. I'll bring the alphabet soup!

    K

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  2. jean has sent many screamers to me...even an alphabet based on them...that is what is known as giving me the business

    and

    i have faithfully followed this blog all 365 days

    well

    i may have on occasion played catch-up

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  3. Among old time computer geeks the exclamation point was sometimes called a "bang". It was used on some computers to mark the beginning of a system command. Thus if you wanted to tell someone that they needed this:

    !!LOAD DRIVERA

    you would say, "bang bang load driver a"

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  4. wow..the don comments...i'm honored :-)
    i believe the don worked on computers back when they were coal fired...so he knows all the technical stuff

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