Can't stop laughing....

External Since: Sep 28, 2003 Posts: 55

Ah, ha ha ha ha ha! Ok, I think I've just about gotten... ha ha *cough*
I'm ok now ...gotten it out of my system.

So I'm about to bid on an Ebay auction for an old game on floppies. I
ask the seller if he "will agree to email me images of all the floppies
before shipping" in case one fails during transit (which I've had happen
only too often). That way I'll have a backup. I actually told him "I've
been burnt way to many times buying old games on floppy only to have
Install disk no. 4 be unreadable - you get the picture."

Instead he immediately sent me PHOTOS of each floppy disk. Close up
shots of each disk. *giggles madly* I just sent a reply to try and
explain what I meant, and I tried to be nice about it, but... Ha ha ha
ha... oh boy.

Regards,
Jamie Kahn Genet
--
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

External Since: Jan 17, 2004 Posts: 9

In <1g7r4fo.16ol8551m2mtbuN%jamiekg@slingshot.co.nz> Jamie Kahn Genet
wrote:
> Ah, ha ha ha ha ha! Ok, I think I've just about gotten... ha ha *cough*
> I'm ok now ...gotten it out of my system.
>
> So I'm about to bid on an Ebay auction for an old game on floppies. I
> ask the seller if he "will agree to email me images of all the
> floppies before shipping" in case one fails during transit (which I've
> had happen only too often). That way I'll have a backup. I actually
> told him "I've been burnt way to many times buying old games on floppy
> only to have Install disk no. 4 be unreadable - you get the picture."
>
> Instead he immediately sent me PHOTOS of each floppy disk. Close up
> shots of each disk. *giggles madly* I just sent a reply to try and
> explain what I meant, and I tried to be nice about it, but... Ha ha ha
> ha... oh boy.
>
> Regards,
> Jamie Kahn Genet

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