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Re: Damn computers
Posted by: Sarah (---.vip.uk.com)
Date: May 08, 2003 10:23PM
Chomsky (Minsky's nice-but-dim brother) was always huge even when he was a kitten. One day he jumped on a double phone socket and broke it off at the wall. My wrists being as they are, I couldn't get it out, so was stuck without phone communication.
Now this happened on a Friday, and that's the day when I type out the church bulletin. I therefore had to get hold of Fr Tom urgently to explain why he couldn't ring me to let me know he was on his way, so I borrowed a mobile and told him the embarrassing story. Fr Tom, being thoroughly nice, offered to come and help me fix the problem, which he promptly did.
So picture, if you will, this elderly, twinkly, white-haired, Irish, rather formally dressed Catholic priest, lying face down under the computer table in approved Mr Spock fashion (you'd think that so many hundreds of years in the future they'd have worked out how to design a spaceship where all the circuitry was easily accessible for maintenance, but apparently not), being watched with fascination by the great big dopey kitten who was the original cause of all the fuss. Poor old Fr Tom isn't even very keen on cats!
The man's a saint... but it was still a classic comedy moment.
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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)
Sarah
Now this happened on a Friday, and that's the day when I type out the church bulletin. I therefore had to get hold of Fr Tom urgently to explain why he couldn't ring me to let me know he was on his way, so I borrowed a mobile and told him the embarrassing story. Fr Tom, being thoroughly nice, offered to come and help me fix the problem, which he promptly did.
So picture, if you will, this elderly, twinkly, white-haired, Irish, rather formally dressed Catholic priest, lying face down under the computer table in approved Mr Spock fashion (you'd think that so many hundreds of years in the future they'd have worked out how to design a spaceship where all the circuitry was easily accessible for maintenance, but apparently not), being watched with fascination by the great big dopey kitten who was the original cause of all the fuss. Poor old Fr Tom isn't even very keen on cats!
The man's a saint... but it was still a classic comedy moment.
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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)
Sarah
Re: Damn computers
Posted by: Skiffle (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: May 08, 2003 11:34PM
The Liberator was better designed, as that had separate rooms for things that needed fixing. Avon may have had to sit on the floor, or kneel down, sometimes, but I don't think he ever had to crawl under a console on the Liberator. The ship had been designed by aliens, mind you. Most of the human ones seemed to feature regular consoles. Maybe that's why he was so determined to hang on to the Liberator: he didn't have to crawl under consoles to fix the wiring.
Re: Damn computers
Posted by: Sarah (---.vip.uk.com)
Date: May 09, 2003 12:45PM
Well, quite - after all, we know he had a bad back!
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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)
Sarah
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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)
Sarah
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