We try to bring it all together in one place to confuse you. One of the courses I took in high school was auto shop. At the beginning of class for a while, the teacher would go around the room (didn't I tell you this story already?) and ask us to call out the next step in...
Job Control Command. Like ``get to work, you,'' and ``we'll do it my way,'' but in words a computer can understand. I only remember this as a term in the context of IBM-mainframeJCL. JCCC Joint (J) Communications Control Center.DODterm. Hey, man -- come on over and get hig...
In tenth grade we got a term of sex ed. You can imagine what that was like. (Tenth grade corresponds chronologically to fourth form in Britain.) Come think of it, the main thing I learned in ninth grade drafting class was that Mr. Moran had scrimped and saved, scrimped and saved...
Some years ago I met an interesting single woman on the internet who seemed nice, and we progressed to a phone conversation. We decided to get together, but she wanted to know my birthdate and where I was born. She needed these inputs for her astrology software. She was becoming more ...
I mean, if you come in and order breakfast at six you can't eat it at nine. It's ridiculous -- the eggs will be cold! (We don't go for the small potatoes; we go for hash browns.) For more on the mysteries of breakfast time, view this image. (And if we ever figure it ...
But we can hardly see the preposterous profanity by which one chance rich man after another has been able to commandeer or purchase a house which he still calls an Abbey. It is precisely as if he had gone to live in the parish church; had breakfasted on the altar, or cleaned his teeth...