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Old 10-17-2020, 02:34 PM   #41
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No references to dumpster fires and Edmonton yet ???

CP I am dissapoint...
That'd be like talking about rain in Vancouver. It happens to often to discuss, yet the residents pretend it's not a thing.
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Old 10-17-2020, 03:08 PM   #42
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That'd be like talking about rain in Vancouver. It happens to often to discuss, yet the residents pretend it's not a thing.
I believe Baltimore residents do something similar.

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Old 10-17-2020, 05:28 PM   #43
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Even now it is... people are still using the word Zamboni 10x as much as Olympia, even if it's just to say this wasn't a Zamboni. Or, "quit whining, Zamboni lawyers". Or "Zambitches".

They're still winning every time.
This, too, shall pass.

Who here is old enough to remember when people used to call all photocopiers Xeroxes? The word Xerox even became a verb—with Xerox's legal department hollering about it the whole time.

Nowadays, nobody uses the word Xerox… for anything at all.
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This, too, shall pass.

Who here is old enough to remember when people used to call all photocopiers Xeroxes? The word Xerox even became a verb—with Xerox's legal department hollering about it the whole time.

Nowadays, nobody uses the word Xerox… for anything at all.
A brand name noun being used as a verb? Sounded weird to me, so I Googled it, turns out it's true!
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A brand name noun being used as a verb? Sounded weird to me, so I Googled it, turns out it's true!
I 'Asked Jeeves' and discovered no such truths.

Then again, it tried sending me to a WordPerfect Document on my Netscape Explorer so who knows what the truth is?
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Old 10-17-2020, 06:54 PM   #46
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I 'Asked Jeeves' and discovered no such truths.

Then again, it tried sending me to a WordPerfect Document on my Netscape Explorer so who knows what the truth is?
I will wait for Textcritic, the truth shall be revealed.
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Old 10-17-2020, 06:57 PM   #47
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I 'Asked Jeeves' and discovered no such truths.

Then again, it tried sending me to a WordPerfect Document on my Netscape Explorer so who knows what the truth is?
Netscape Navigator
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Netscape Navigator
“Netscape Navigator” is six syllables long.

The early internet was not great at naming things.
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Old 10-17-2020, 10:24 PM   #49
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“Netscape Navigator” is six syllables long.

The early internet was not great at naming things.

The N symbol loading graphic is burned into my memory. A page would load and load and load on my painfully slow computer with even slower dialup from when I was a kid.

Kids don’t know how good they have it these days.
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I will wait for Textcritic, the truth shall be revealed.

He who hold witness of False Prophets is doomed to damnation
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It's an older meme.
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It's an older meme.
But it checks out. I was going to clear it.
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