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Re: Call for submissions: Dadaist user manuals or: Stop before you whop!
Subject:Re: Call for submissions: Dadaist user manuals or: Stop before you whop! From:beelia <beelia -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"Meryl R. Cohen" <merylster -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:00:25 -0800
"Never whop it without stopping"
This masterpiece of tech writing has permanently warped my brain. I will
never touch a USB cable again without asking myself if I have whopped it
properly.
Bee
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Meryl R. Cohen <merylster -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> At the Dawn of Time (1969) I received a Panasonic cassette player/recorder
> for my 8th grade graduation. It came with a manual and a list ordered by
> state of authorized repair places in the US. Rhode Island had a special
> state heading that looked like this:
>
> Phode Island
> ^insert R
>
> Maybe this was a formative experience in my becoming a TW.
>
> --Meryl
>
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 1:30 PM, David Neeley <dbneeley -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
> > I couldn't resist sharing this one...enjoy!
> >
> > David
> >
> > <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/09/user_manual_folliws/>
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