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Bob Maar
(Maar stands for Maartini)
Posts: 28608
From: New York City & Newport, RI
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 05-09-2005 11:26 AM
Rated G ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Useless fact - Why is eating puffer fish so dangerous?
We visited the links in the Puffer Fish category to answer this one. There are over 120 different species of puffer fish, best known for its ability to turn itself into a big, spiny ball when threatened. If cleaned and properly prepared, puffer fish, or blowfish as it is also know, can be safely eaten and is even considered a delicacy in Japan.
However, beware before ordering a plate of puffer. The liver, gonads, intestines, and skin of some species contain a neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin, a poison also found in the California newt and the eastern salamander and that can cause death if ingested.
In Japan, where a meal of puffer, or fugu, can run you a pretty penny, chefs are required to undergo an exam and acquire a special license to prepare the dish. During the exam, which has only a 25% pass rate, the chef must prepare and then eat a meal of puffer fish. Despite these precautions, some 100-200 people suffer from tetrodotoxin poisoning every year. Approximately half of these cases result in death.
Only small portions of contaminate fish need to be consumed for poisoning to occur, and the effects are felt within minutes. Symptoms usually include tingling of the mouth, vomiting, dizziness, and eventually, paralysis and death. There is no known antidote so treatment usually includes pumping the stomach.
However, tetrodotoxin might not be all bad. Recent research has suggested that it may ease pain in cancer patients and help wean heroin addicts. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Bob Maar
(Maar stands for Maartini)
Posts: 28608
From: New York City & Newport, RI
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 05-23-2005 11:13 AM
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The technical geek test
Are you a tehcnical geek?
Do you have a problem with overdoing your technical activities? Many do. Take the following test to see if you are compulsive. If you can relate to 2 of the items, you may have a problem with Techno-Dweeb. If you relate to 3 or more, you are definitely a Techno-Dweeb. Do not despair! There is help! You are not alone! Whenever you feel the urge to code in Assembler, call the number in the white pages of your phone book, and we will send somebody right over to cut out paper dolls with you until the feeling passes.
You know you are a tehcnical geek when . . .
When your friend tells you all about his Cressida V6 and you reply "Yeah, I had V5, and it was full of bugs!"
When driving you see a license plate with the letters DSR, and you feel compelled to touch your bumper to the other car to see if you can raise CD.
When you are counting objects "0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D...".
When you lay down in the afternoon for a short rest, end up sleeping 4 hours, and call it a "mega-nap".
When your friend is going to Essex for vacation and you tell her, "You really should go for the DX, it has the built in co-processor."
When you dream in 256 pallettes of 256 colors.
When asked about a bus schedule, you wonder if it is 16 or 32 bits.
When you convince yourself that Tetris really does improve eye-hand coordination.
When the radio traffic reporter talks about a backup caused by a crash, and you correct her that a backup is good protection in case of a crash.
When floppy drive applies more to your love life, and hard drive to your machines.
When you call "*.*" star-dot-star.
When you can do hexadecimal arithmatic in your head.
When your wife goes to the market for some macintosh apples, and you correct her, "No, dear, it's 'Apple Macintosh'."
When your wife says "If you don't turn off that stupid machine and come to bed, then I am going to divorce you!", and you chastise her for for omitting the else clause.
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Bob Maar
(Maar stands for Maartini)
Posts: 28608
From: New York City & Newport, RI
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 05-23-2005 11:15 AM
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The Windows Rejection Song
Sung to the tune of The Rainbow Connection by Kermit Frog
Why are there so many, users of Windows?
Don't people have any pride?
Windows is useless, and designed by morons,
and Windows had got DOS inside.
But some don't care and continue to use it.
I know they're wrong, wait and see.
Someday we'll see it, the Windows rejection,
the users, and Bill Gates, and me.
Who said that every bug, would be found but left there?
It seems so strange and bizarre.
Microsoft thought of that, and millions accept it,
look what it's done, so far.
What's so amazing are all the delays in
the replacement for Windows 3.
Someday we'll see it, the Windows rejection,
the users, and Bill Gates, and me.
All of us under its spell,
we know that it's utterly tragic...
Have you been not saving, and then torn your hair out,
because of a G.P. fault?
Is this the error, that occurs most often,
and causes your system to halt?
I've seen it too many times to ignore it,
I think it is just s'posed to be.
Someday we'll see it, the Windows rejection,
the users, and Bill Gates, and me.
la, da da, lee, da la loo,
a, la, la la, la lee la roo!
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Bob Maar
(Maar stands for Maartini)
Posts: 28608
From: New York City & Newport, RI
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 06-25-2005 04:54 PM
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New Millennium Conversations (Computer World)
1. Parents chatting to son " Dear Andy. How have you been? Your mother and I are fine. We miss you. Please sign off from your computer and come downstairs for something to eat. love. your Dad."
2.A man talking to a new friend. "My name was David. But that sounded old fashioned. So I shortened it to DVD."
3.A son getting a phone call. " Hollo bob. This is your father again. I have another question about my new computer. Can i tape a movie from cable TV then fax it from my VCR to my CD-Rom then email it to my brother's cellular phone so he can make a copy on his neighbour's camcorder?"
4. A woman asking the sales girl "I want my husband to pay more attention to me. Got any perfume that smells like a couputer?"
5. While removing his dress including soaks for a routine check up at the clinic, the old man tells the doctor "sorry about the odor. I have all my passwords tattooed between by toes."
6. Husband tells wife after getting some strange messages from his computer "The computer says I need to apgrade my brain to be compatiable with its new software."
7.Husband, in front of computer, turns back to wife (she is struggling with their 2 small kids) and says " You said I should spend more time with our children, so I turned their faces into icons."
8.One 10 year old teenager talking to another of about the same age "I asked my dad where the children come from, he said people download them from internet."
9.The doctor telling the pregnant woman while turning the monitor and showing the image of the baby inside the utarus, "see your baby is developing very nicely. Would you like to send him a email?"
10.Technology Advances, but people stays the same. Banners in toilet reads "For a good time, pls email sue@abc.com".
11.Couple on bed, but both are completely engaged in browsing internet using laptops. At some point, the husband winks to wife and the wife's reply was "Not tonight darling, Didn't you get my email?"
12.Even dogs do it. Three dogs in front of a computer, chatting to some dog girl. Friends advices to the one who is typing "Tell her, you are a guard dog, Yeah, A Rottweiler, and that you are single, and neutered......."
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Bob Maar
(Maar stands for Maartini)
Posts: 28608
From: New York City & Newport, RI
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 07-05-2005 11:43 AM
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"CYBERSPACE OBITUARY"
Tri Logon (May he rest in pieces.).
Tri Logon (aka IRC big_mouth, aka ICQ smart_mouth) passed away on 7/2/05 while downloading and installing the Windows upgrade. Super VGA viewing will begin at 11:00am on 7/6/05.
He is survived by his wife, Boot (Cold) Logon (aka IRCboot_boogie). Tri resided at http://www.crash_dummies.com/trilogn/html for 5 years. He was employed as a computer tech by Nutskip Co., as a trouble/shooter/maker and received his computer degree at; Microsoft for Dummies. He was noted for his ability to recover his crashed hard drive 29 different times. He contributed a vast number of internet prank files and expressed numerous LOLOLOLOL during his service to the Internet.
He is survived by his son, Kant Logon (aka IRC kant_help_it), a daughter, Missia Logon (ICHAT missia_u), some nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, Dent (aka ICHAT dent_doit) and Yesser (akaICHAT yesser_yadid) Logon.
Services will be at "http://www.waytogo.com at 12:00 pm on 7 /6 /05. All ICQ friends are to log on at 12:15 pm and sing "Ut Oh" in unison. Tri will be remembered by chatters with a moment of silence in all chat rooms at 12:30 pm.
It has been asked that flowers be omitted and donations be made to replace the family hard drive. All cards and donations can be sent to trilogin@crash_dummies.com. To use your charge card for making a donation, please place your card in the floppy drive at the prompt.
Good bye Tri.......we know your up there in Heaven taking care of the good Lord's computers now.............OH NO !
Backup your system everyone and log off............QUICK!
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