XPost: alt.usenet.kooks, soc.men   
   From: nimue@databasix.com   
      
   ^reaper^ wrote:   
   > While sipping absinthe, gregvk  heard a loud   
   > sucking noise coming from sci.psychology.psychotherapy and hastily   
   > inscribed the following unintelligible Sanskrit in   
   > :   
   >   
   >> "Kadaitcha Man"  wrote in   
   >> news:1q7uf7.jds.17.1@news.alt.net:   
   >>   
   >>> Whoops, scratch that.  Turns out the disk I used wasn't OEM after   
   >>> all; maybe that's why it wasn't "locked" to a particular machine and   
   >>> activated succesfully.   
   >>>   
   >>> I went digging through all the old laptop junk, looking for the EULA   
   >>> because I wanted to see what the exact wording was.  I couldn't find   
   >>> the book with the EULA on it, but I found two disks -- the OEM one   
   >>> that came with the laptop, and another one that I apparently bought   
   >>> separately (for reasons that escape me at the moment).  I was   
   >>> thinking the one I used on the Sun was OEM, because I had it with   
   >>> the laptop stuff, but it isn't.   
   >>>   
   >>> /hangs head in shame, slinks away   
   >>> //makes mental note to toss all the old laptop shit   
   >>   
   >> Nice confession o' failure, loser.   
   >   
   > Being a juicenet illiterate must suck, though the public   
   > self-flaggelation is, in a word, rich. Btw, since you appear to be   
   > ruefully clueless, this is who you just responded to:   
   >   
   > http://groups.google.com/group/24hoursupport.helpdesk/msg/e67d5becddb7a3a6   
   >   
   > Hth! LOLOL   
      
   I think you missed the point.   
      
   In context, it was perfect.   
      
   --   
   Rhonda Lea Kirk   
      
   Never attribute to malice that which can be   
   adequately explained by stupidity...   
      
   ...but keep your eyes open. Robert A. Heinlein   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)