Subj : Re: [Crap] Happens To : Barry Martin From : Daryl Stout Date : Mon Sep 28 2020 13:39:00 Barry, BM> as have to be in range. Someone made the joke here that if I started BM> seeing a bunch of cars parked outside the house I'd better change the BM> WiFi password! DS> What was your first clue?? BM> The traffic on this street is normally extremely low! That'll do it. BM> There are good and bad things about The Cloud. Might make things a lot BM> easier with 'everyone on the same page': utilities up-to-date and so BM> compatible (assuming the machine can use -- 64-bit utility on a 32-bit BM> machine...). Well, that might be processed 'in the Sky' and just the BM> end result sent out (seeing some problems with that too!). Well, right now, I can't afford it...but it would mean less hassle about having to take the BBS down for thunderstorms (had a very close lightning strike about 3am this morning). DS> I'm looking at possibly putting the BBS in the cloud sometime DS> this fall, if I can get some financial things to work out. BM> To me that seems like a good idea: it is being accessed by others, so BM> not nearly as much of a need to firewall or otherwise prevernt others BM> for accessing data (don't want them to hack "Today's Blooper" to BM> telling dirty jokes!). I have a very long and complex sysop password, and recently changed my own personal password. I use a combination of letters, numbers, as well as symbols. It's too bad I can't use high ascii characters as well...but, I'd need it in a macro at logon. One former area Sysop had just that!! BM> Let's float that idea to the flagpole and see who salutes! DS> Depends on what kind of salute is given. BM> Why do I have the feeling this is along the "shake hands with the BM> invisible Leprechaun -- you pervert, he's this tall!". I joke that I told my late wife that "I'm a gentle pervert". A former Sysop (he died of brain cancer nearly 2 years ago), bragged that "I'm a postvert". One time, I was chatting with him and his wife (they were both a couple of characters), and I said "If I have a problem with the BBS, I can give him a ring" (meaning a phone call). He jumped on that, and said "Boy!! You're a pervert and a cheap date. You're not my type, and you want to go to straight to the wedding!!"...both he and his wife were laughing uncontrollably. My response was "I am so red!!" :P DS> and flipped onto its roof. On the front page of the local paper, DS> is the photo of the car, and the bumper sticker, right side up, DS> with $*!+ Happens". :P BM> There have been a few 'interesting' pictures/videos where people or BM> something is in front of a few selected letters. I saw a deal today, where some female election officials, had ballots strategically placed over their bosoms and groin (they were completely otherwise), showing their concern for ballot fraud. I don't want to know what lever or button you have to push. :P DS> Then, I heard a commercial the other day about this product to DS> help cut down on their pets shedding. I can't remember the name, DS> but they closed the commercial with "Use this product...because DS> Shed Happens". BM> Close enough to catch the attention, which is what the advertiser BM> wanted -- except also wanted the product's name remembered. I think it was a deal with Swiffer. BM> And so after snipping at the end, guess will close without BM> happening you'd be constipated! At work years ago, I was helping this female employee rack the decals off the automatic press, and I said "Feces Occurs". She looked at me blankly, and I told her what it was. She busted out laughing, and said "I'm going to tell my sister tonight!!". When she came into work the next morning, I asked "Did you tell your sister??". Grinning widely, she said "Yes"...and I asked "Same Result??", with the reply "Yep". She had lost her first husband to colon cancer, but remarried too soon. The marriage didn't last 2 months. Had she not been a smoker, I would've likely started a relationship with her. I am one who can't deal being around smokers. To me, kissing a smoker is like licking an ashtray...and to quote the line from a play I was in 45 years ago "the smoke in there was so thick, you thought you were getting cancer of the eyeballs!!". BM> ... Mr Whipple recycles Charmin by squeezing the poop from it Ewww!!! :P Daryl .... If you smoke after sex, you're doing it too fast! === MultiMail/Win v0.52 --- SBBSecho 3.11-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - tbolt.synchro.net (454:1/33) .