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2006-12-31 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Free Radical 2006-12-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 GIGO. PIMF.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2006-12-31 01:13|| 2006-12-31 01:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Sorry Alaska Paul,

What is GIGO?
(I know what PIMF is, I have had to use it too many times already!)

~FR~

Posted by Free Radical">Free Radical 2006-12-31 08:06|| 2006-12-31 08:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Garbage In, Garbage Out. It goes back to the earliest days of computing machines, Free Radical, about which I have read in story books. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2006-12-31 08:19|| 2006-12-31 08:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Reminds me of the guy flying from LA to Oakland and got on a flight to Aukland, NZ.

Posted by phil_b 2006-12-31 08:35|| 2006-12-31 08:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Or a domestic argument I saw on a sitcom: "You knew my mother wanted a ticket to Boston and you heard her say Bosnia and you never said a word!"

Posted by Grunter 2006-12-31 08:46|| 2006-12-31 08:46|| Front Page Top

#6 True story - my brother-in-law and I were coming back from a fishing trip in Alberta province and our bags got sent to Austin instead of Boston.

Got the bags eventually, but I always wonder if the ticket counter agent got the hearing aid they needed.

Posted by no mo uro 2006-12-31 10:14|| 2006-12-31 10:14|| Front Page Top

#7 Our Bud Free Radical's gotta be under 25.

Posted by Shipman 2006-12-31 10:55|| 2006-12-31 10:55|| Front Page Top

#8 Back in 92 I was supposed to fly from Birmingham, Alabama to Portland, Maine. The Travel Agent said I would have to change planes in Dallas and again in Salt Lake City. She didn't know there was a Portland, Maine even though I had written it down. I could have wound up on the wrong side of the US.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2006-12-31 12:40|| 2006-12-31 12:40|| Front Page Top

#9 Lol Shipman,

Please tell the Rantburg ladies that I am a very spry 38 years young.

And I *am* smacking myself on the head for not recognizing what GIGO is... I just didn't recognize it in the present context. I guess Alaska Paul's sense of humor was a bit abstract for me this morning.

Or maybe it was the whiskey? Who knows? :-D

Posted by Free Radical">Free Radical 2006-12-31 12:50|| 2006-12-31 12:50|| Front Page Top

#10 Oh, and thank you too TW- please give the TH and all of your family a very happy New Year from here in NYC!

Posted by Free Radical">Free Radical 2006-12-31 12:56|| 2006-12-31 12:56|| Front Page Top

#11 "I didn't notice the mistake as my son is usually good with computers," his mother, Sabine, told Reuters.

Geography and spelling, now, never could pass those subjects. But computers - real good.

Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-12-31 14:15|| 2006-12-31 14:15|| Front Page Top

#12 Why thank you, Free Radical, dear. I most certainly will -- and a happy New Year to you and yours, and to all Rantburgers far and near!

Posted by trailing wife 2006-12-31 14:17|| 2006-12-31 14:17|| Front Page Top

#13 There was one more in the '80's...GOGEGarbage Out, Garbage Explained I think it was the start of feel goodness. ie: He meant well.

Posted by Phineter Thraviger 2006-12-31 15:14|| 2006-12-31 15:14|| Front Page Top

#14 I have CICO going on, on a regular basis--Cats In Cats Out--usually at the same time.

There is this an on-going joke in Austria that American tourists want to see kangaroos in the wild. Based in this dude geographical prowess, I have to surmise that they made it up to cover up their deficiencies. ;-)

Posted by twobyfour 2006-12-31 16:21|| 2006-12-31 16:21|| Front Page Top

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