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    Holy Crap, Email Was Scary in the 1970s!
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    Image of Takamofo Takamofo
    04/20/09

    In reply to Holy Crap, Email Was Scary in the 1970s!
    If that's just a regular email, I wonder what spam would be like...
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    Takamofo was starred Takamofo was unstarred
    Image of LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M
    04/20/09

    In reply to Holy Crap, Email Was Scary in the 1970s!
    I get e-mails working at Motorola that have that same effect on me. Now I have a picture that embodies my experience!


    This is so going to be put up on my little wall outside my cube next to my name and the obligatory Dilbert tommorrow!

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    LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M was starred LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M was unstarred
    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    04/20/09

    In reply to Holy Crap, Email Was Scary in the 1970s!
    There is a disturbing amount of brown in this scene. The shag carpet is brown. The wallpaper is brown. The suit is brown. The veneer on the steel desk is brown.


    Even his white shirt is kind of brown...

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/20/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Wonka's legal department was never that big on being polychromatic.
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    Image of Adrian Covert Adrian Covert
    04/20/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: hey, grand imperial wizard ponies, you saying you got a problem with things that are brown?
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    04/21/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: That's pretty much how I remember the 70's....


    They had to counter-balance all that overabundance of colors from the 60's.

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    Jrsy Devil's Advocate® was starred Jrsy Devil's Advocate® was unstarred
    Image of chotai chotai
    04/20/09

    In reply to Holy Crap, Email Was Scary in the 1970s!
    Honeywell? I'm pretty sure they made my thermostat.
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    Image of SpeedyGonzalas i7 SpeedyGonzalas i7
    04/21/09

    @chotai: Honeywell sounds overtly sexual.
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    04/21/09

    @SpeedyGonzalas Star!: Once you figure out what HoneyWagon means it all becomes a LOT less sexual...
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    IN THE FACE! was starred IN THE FACE! was unstarred
    Image of i heart bacon hub i heart bacon hub
    04/20/09

    In reply to Holy Crap, Email Was Scary in the 1970s!
    Back then spam was just a canned processed meat product. Simpler times folks, simpler times...
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    i heart bacon hub was starred i heart bacon hub was unstarred
    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    04/21/09

    @iheartpornhub hearts bacon!: Spam was created the same year the the SmokeJumper program(which inspired that great Howie Long film, Firestorm) was begun. To this day, every smoke jumper carries a can of Spam in his/her pack. It's a fact!
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/20/09

    In reply to Holy Crap, Email Was Scary in the 1970s!
    The senior partner at work is over 70. I'm sure they'd have to scrape his name off of the plaque by the door if this happened.
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    Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of SpeedyGonzalas i7 SpeedyGonzalas i7
    04/21/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: They'd have to make me a plaque, to start. Maybe the plaque should smooth plastic and be easy to hose down, as my name would not be what would be splattered on the wall if my mail came in the form of Wizard Jizz.

    I bet that office smells of ozone and mildewed cigarettes. And pencils.
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    SpeedyGonzalas i7 was starred SpeedyGonzalas i7 was unstarred
    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    04/21/09

    @SpeedyGonzalas Star!: "Wizard Jizz" is my new favorite term.
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