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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 06-07-2001, 06:19 PM:

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 06-07-2001, 06:23 PM:

Also, I hear it was Bill Gate's wife that actually came up with the name "Micro Soft"

According to her, it is an accurate description of Bill himself, if you get the drift.

Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 06-07-2001, 07:35 PM:

I understand that in a highly secret ceremony

was married to

They are extreemly sensitive about this and they don't know how to tell

Please do not tell either

The result of this marriage is in the picture top left.

Opinions Please!

Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 06-07-2001, 08:22 PM:

Okay, so this isn't really a joke per-se, but I think it is pretty funny...

I'm sure everybody knows who or what "The Blue Man Group" is, right?

Just for those people who have been living in a cave, they are those three blue guys who are in the commercials for Intel Pentium processors. In real life they are a performance art troupe. They do "techno" music / percussion.
I think they are relatively cool but I wondered, "What the heck do they have to do with Pentiums?"

I did a little web search on "Blue Man Group" (Actually I just asked Sherlock.)

This is a link I found: Blue Man Group

Man! Lemme' tell ya'! I was just HOWLING when I saw this!
Seems to me that the Blue Man Group has more to do with Macintosh than they do Wintel!

Posted by Mike Judge (Member # 558) on 06-08-2001, 06:07 AM:

They put on a great show in Vegas. Saw it in the Luxor, if you're around, catch it, also while you're in the Luxor, check out the Imax, I did not enjoy that Imax at all.

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 06-08-2001, 06:49 AM:

Mike Judge said: "also while you're in the Luxor, check out the Imax, I did not enjoy that Imax at all."

Was there a problem with the theatre or with the presentation, or did you just not like the particular film being shown?

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 06-08-2001, 07:28 AM:

I have been to the Luxor IMAX and I was unimpressed. It seemed tiny! The screen was big, but there couldn't have been more than 100 seats. The show I saw was in 3D. The 3D effect was VERY impressive, but the guard railings obstructed some of the screen. It is a VERY POORLY CONSTRUCTED auditorium. It had 6 foot risers, I believe. Talk about "stadium seating".

They wouldn't let me into the booth.

I did like all of the Christie 3,000 watt xenon bulbs that shoot a beam of light into the night sky, though!

Posted by Aaron Sisemore (Member # 145) on 06-08-2001, 10:19 AM:

>>I did like all of the Christie 3,000 watt xenon bulbs that shoot a beam of light into the night sky, though!<<

Christie? They used to be ORC xenons at the tip of the pyramid... ORC used to brag about that too. Maybe Mandalay Properties (the company formerly known as CircusCircus) finally realized to switch to GOOD bulbs

-Aaron

Posted by Bruce McGee (Member # 131) on 06-08-2001, 10:22 AM:

"They wouldn't let me into the booth"

If I saw you, Joe, heading toward my house, (I have no other booth,) looking the way that you do in your latest image, I'd not only lock the booth door, but I'd probably run for my life!

Be afraid. Joe is starting to look like the homeless street people that are infesting our downtown area. Except Joe looks like he bathed in the last six months.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 06-08-2001, 03:43 PM:

Bruce, by saying that you are also saying that Mark G looks like a hobo!

Aaron, I was told that they are Christies. They may be ORCs.

Posted by Bruce McGee (Member # 131) on 06-08-2001, 04:52 PM:

HEY
Everytime I log on here I find that people have morphed into new and even strange people than they were before.

MY perfect puss is too beautiful to change...

(The real reason that my image has not changed is because I no longer OWN a working camcorder!)

Oh well, I own a trio of Holmes. I'm on WebTV. I am one step up from poverty!

Posted by Greg Mueller (Member # 17) on 06-08-2001, 05:44 PM:

Joe
I originally heard that joke about a week after the gates wedding in HI.
It went like this.
Hey have you heard? Bill gate's wife is divorcing him!
What? already?
Yes, she found out what micro-soft really meant.

Baada boom

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Greg Mueller
Amateur Astronomer, Machinist, Filmnut http://www.muellersatomics.com/

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 06-08-2001, 05:50 PM:

Greg-

I thought I had made that up

I like the version you heard better.

Posted by Aaron Sisemore (Member # 145) on 06-08-2001, 11:52 PM:

>>I was told that they are Christies. They may be ORCs.<<

ORC's catalog had the Luxor listed as one of their 'achievements' complete with pictures and all.

Aaron