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[Varin]

[Wolf]

Sign me up.

My dad is always signing up for whatever stuff comes up in the popup ads "to get rid of them." And Mom spends all her time on the phone with the credit card company canceling stuff he's bought.

He also complained when he downloaded AOL for high-speed because "it's not any faster than it was."

And Mom and the mouse…oy. The first time I told her to "move the mouse," she picked it up, moved her hand about a foot and put it back down.

[vpisteve]

Don't even get me started on AOL or AOL For Broadband.

To me, it's like this:

Horse and buggy company has a monopoly for a while, and sells crappy buggies to ignorant farmers. The automobile comes along. Buggy company tells the farmers, "Ah, the automobile! That'll help your buggy go faster! Let us sell you this special version of our buggy to strap to the top of your automobile. It'll be the fastest buggy EVAR!!"

Farmer: "Sounds good to me. Driving a car sounds too hard anyway."

(No pun intended on the term "buggy.")

[jamesi]

Not that my dad's a technology God, but this thread reminds me of a funny story from last week.

I recently gave my dad my old computer and bought a new one. The computer he had prior to my Athlon 1300 was a Celeron 333 with a whopping 48 MB of RAM. Needless to say, he was quite excited.

My dad is not a big gamer, so I was hesitant to include an old, ne'er-used copy of Millionaire 2 onto his new dream machine. It was collecting dust here, and I figured it might re-stimulate some rarely used brain cells from decades past.

Last week I get a phone call out of the blue. When I say hello, the reply from dear old dad was, "Quick, what's photosynthesis? No, wait, what does photosynthesis produce?"

Shocked, I hesitated, but then told him. "Ah, oxygen, ok, thanks." Click.

I don't know if this qualifies me as a proud member of the parent-has-a-new-computer club, but it certainly puts me in the running for Lifeline-Of-The-Year certificate.

[vpisteve]

[ScarpeGrosse]

I know that I will be most happy when the grandmother with the new computer ceases forwarding me emails. One day, I had one with a nasty joke involving priests and penises and another one with a bouncing bear wishing me joyful days.

Fear the grandparents.

[Varin]

[ScarpeGrosse]

[bagsbee]

what an interesting study in sociology this forum is...furthur off-topic this couldn't get.

I'd like to be a fly on the wall to see the reaction on poor NashCarey's face when he comes here looking for anti-virus advice, and instead is regaled with stories of grandmas and dick jokes.

[jamesi]

To steal a quote: Remember, even in an Alternate Reality, you always have a place to go for penile humor.

Speaking of dick jokes, if any of you ever get a chance to read Drew Carey's "Dirty Jokes and Beer", you will undoubtedly pee yourself at some of the big dick jokes he has laid out in one chapter. Priceless.

[bill]

I found the culprit.

http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame90.html