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October 25, 2002 at 7:27 am #7788rustedtightMember
Recently one of my friends, a computer wizard, paid me a visit. As we were talking I mentioned that I had recently installed Windows on my PC, I told him how happy I was with this operating system and showed him the Windows CD.
To my astonishment and distress he threw it into my micro-wave oven and turned it on. I was upset because the CD had become precious to me, but he said ‘Do not worry, it is unharmed.’After a few minutes he took the CD out, gave it to me and said ‘Take a close look at it.’ To my surprise the CD was quite cold and it seemed to have become thicker and heavier than before.
At first I could not see anything, but on the inner edge of the central hole I saw an inscription, in lines finer than anything I have ever seen before.
The inscription shone piercingly bright, and yet remote, as if out of a great depth4F6E65204F5320746F2072756C65207468656D20616C6C2C204F6E6524F53 20746F2066696E64207468656D2C0D0A4F6E65204F5320746F206272696E67 207468656D20616C6C20616E6420696E20746865206461726B6E6573732062
696E64207468656D‘I cannot read the fiery letters,’ I said.
‘No,’ he said, ‘but I can. The letters are Hex, of an ancient mode, but the language is that of Microsoft, which I shall not utter here. But in common English this is what it says”‘One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them,
One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them….”October 25, 2002 at 12:26 pm #66463magistykMemberHoly! Now that’s scary!
October 25, 2002 at 2:46 pm #66465DrachenMemberLMAO
October 25, 2002 at 6:32 pm #66462AnnaParticipant**NEWS FLASH**
Microsoft is a religous cult.
Oooh never saw that one coming did ya? 😉
Okay kids, please do try it at home.
I can’t wait to see the look on your face when you realize you can’t throw CDs into a microwave. 😀October 26, 2002 at 12:26 am #66464Mr. DiablosMemberMicrosoft a cult? I knew it all along!
October 27, 2002 at 8:25 am #66461AnnaParticipantCome on. Resistance is our only last weapon! Resist my child, resist!
*holds hands behind back while looking down at the ground and shuffling her feet*
Okay… you caught me…. I use windows.We must leave the cult little one. We can sneak out tonight – slip out of your cot n’ meet ya behind the slave driven boilers kay? We can join the Josh Groban cult. Where we can be free – we can hold hands in a circle – we can have freedom of software bugs – and most of all we can sing with all our fellow Grobians!
Kay. All set? Great. Anyone else want to join me n’ Mr. Diablos. Just remember. midnight – behind slave driven boiler #2.
October 27, 2002 at 2:49 pm #66460rustedtightMemberThe Wendy n Diablos coven o’ darkness?
Midnight?
Ewwww, you babies really ARE Grobians huh.
Do I really gotta be neked under the hooded black cloak?
OK count me in. -
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