Are the posted questions getting worse?

  • Roy Ernest (5/20/2009)


    All of you need a vacation... You have all gone crazy.... 😛

    I've always maintained I'd have to drive a long ways in reverse to get back to crazy.

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  • Jan Van der Eecken (5/21/2009)


    Help, he is back!

    I'm ->||<- that close to telling him to

    right click the table

    select open

    scroll to the last row which should be full of "nulls"

    start typing

  • Samuel Vella (5/21/2009)


    I'm ->||<- that close to telling him to

    right click the table

    select open

    scroll to the last row which should be full of "nulls"

    start typing

    How do you right click? PLEASE SHOW ME!

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  • Grant Fritchey (5/21/2009)


    How do you right click? PLEASE SHOW ME!

    Good point, it'll probably turn out he's left handed and has the mouse buttons switched over

  • Samuel Vella (5/21/2009)


    Grant Fritchey (5/21/2009)


    How do you right click? PLEASE SHOW ME!

    Good point, it'll probably turn out he's left handed and has the mouse buttons switched over

    Write click? C L I C K



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  • Jan Van der Eecken (5/21/2009)


    Help, he is back!

    Jan, just walk away. Walk away. NO, stop. Walk away. JAN! Stop!

    :w00t:



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  • Alvin Ramard (5/21/2009)


    Jan Van der Eecken (5/21/2009)


    Help, he is back!

    Jan, just walk away. Walk away. NO, stop. Walk away. JAN! Stop!

    :w00t:

    Just like Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail -> "Run away, Run away!"

  • Jack Corbett (5/21/2009)


    Alvin Ramard (5/21/2009)


    Jan Van der Eecken (5/21/2009)


    Help, he is back!

    Jan, just walk away. Walk away. NO, stop. Walk away. JAN! Stop!

    :w00t:

    Just like Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail -> "Run away, Run away!"

    Would someone please take my keyboard away? :crazy:

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  • Jan Van der Eecken (5/21/2009)


    Jack Corbett (5/21/2009)


    Alvin Ramard (5/21/2009)


    Jan Van der Eecken (5/21/2009)


    Help, he is back!

    Jan, just walk away. Walk away. NO, stop. Walk away. JAN! Stop!

    :w00t:

    Just like Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail -> "Run away, Run away!"

    Would someone please take my keyboard away? :crazy:

    ... and miss what you might do with it? NO



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  • Alvin Ramard (5/21/2009)


    Jan Van der Eecken (5/21/2009)


    Jack Corbett (5/21/2009)


    Alvin Ramard (5/21/2009)


    Jan Van der Eecken (5/21/2009)


    Help, he is back!

    Jan, just walk away. Walk away. NO, stop. Walk away. JAN! Stop!

    :w00t:

    Just like Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail -> "Run away, Run away!"

    Would someone please take my keyboard away? :crazy:

    ... and miss what you might do with it? NO

    I was really thinking of shoving it down his throat, but my integrity is too constrained theis FinYear :hehe:

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  • Would anyone mind if I asked him how he got this job if he can't even figure out how to read error messages and complete simple tasks?

  • Lynn Pettis (5/21/2009)


    Would anyone mind if I asked him how he got this job if he can't even figure out how to read error messages and complete simple tasks?

    hmmm, I sure wouldn't mind.



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  • Lynn Pettis (5/21/2009)


    Would anyone mind if I asked him how he got this job if he can't even figure out how to read error messages and complete simple tasks?

    Actually, no. That would be really interesting information. And find out what he's getting paid while you're at it.

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  • You have my blessing, Lynn!

    Will check back later tonight, gotta rush off to baseball.

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  • Oh yay. 🙁

    Another email accusing me of personal attacks and damaging someone's public image by 'misleading' people about his statements.

    Sometimes I wonder why I bother.....

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