> -----Original Message----- > From: tedd [mailto:tedd.sperling@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 4:55 PM > To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Obeying the rules (was Simple login form with > cookies) > > At 9:03 PM +0100 7/9/09, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > >Also, I'd hardly call anyone here a jumped-up pipsqueak just because > we aren't > >too old to go by new rules. The only reason I'm bringing your age into > this > >is because you keep mentioning your last "30 years" online on mailing > lists. > >There are older members than you on the list, and yet they find no > problem > >following the rules that make this list easy for everyone to use. > > > >-- > >Thanks, > >Ash > > > So someone played the age card and that woke me up... > > Let's see -- the last 30 years on mailing lists? > > Okay I remember the last 30 years, I had here just a second ago. > > Ahhh, there they are -- 30 years would have taken it back to 1979, > right? Subtract the nine, carry the one, three from ten -- yep 1979. > > In 1979, I was attending MSU working on my Masters when Magic Johnson > lead the MSU team to the AACP championship, or something of that > nature. Forgive me, I don't follow baseball. I had a classmate ask me > about Magic Johnson and I said that I never saw him preform -- I > thought he was a David Copperfield type. > > In any event, I was using an Apple ][ computer to write my thesis and > that was unheard of at that time. In fact, the staff in the thesis > office actually came out and marvelled at my thesis submission in > original manuscript that did not contain any photocopies or even > white-outs. Mine was the first original manuscript thesis ever > submitted at MSU (or so they told me). So, that was before the common > word processor. > > Now, do I remember email? No not really. As I understand it, email > came about under ARPANET and converted to the Internet in the early > 80's. So unless he has been doing email and participating on > something other than what's known, I would have to say it's a bunch > of bull. > > But what do I know -- I'm just an old fart who tries to follow the > rules. Now back to sleep zzzzz. > > Cheers, > > tedd > > -- > ------- > http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com > I was whistling and wondering when someone would catch that obvious load of BS. And I'm running out of popcorn! [Marc Hall - HallMarc Websites - http://www.hallmarcwebsites.com 610.446.3346] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
