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Stupid old techie geek joke
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2021 3:59 am
by JayM
MR DUX
!MR
MR2 CM WANGS
L1B MR DUX
(This will confuse anyone who was into computer or telecommunications tech in the '80s and '90s if they haven't seen it before. "Modem ready? Duplex? Common mode? Wangs (as in Wang computers and word processors)? List 1 B?" The rest of you have no idea what I'm talking about unless you've seen it before.)
Re: Stupid old techie geek joke
Posted: Tue May 18, 2021 1:06 am
by LibertyLinux
What does EENN stand for?
engine engine number nine
Re: Stupid old techie geek joke
Posted: Wed May 19, 2021 3:36 pm
by m_pav
JayM wrote: Wed Apr 28, 2021 3:59 am
MR DUX
!MR
MR
2 CM WANGS
L1B MR DUX
Oh the horrors of dial-up and the joys of a particular Intel PCI Dial-Up modem I used to have that was faster than anything I had ever seen before, but only when running in Linux.
Re: Stupid old techie geek joke
Posted: Wed May 19, 2021 8:59 pm
by AVLinux
Haha,
*hears joke...smiles and nods...has absolutely no idea what the punchline means..
Re: Stupid old techie geek joke
Posted: Thu May 20, 2021 4:19 am
by JmaCWQ
JayM wrote: Wed Apr 28, 2021 3:59 am
......This will confuse anyone who was into computer or telecommunications tech in the '80s and '90s......
And anyone who wasn't
Re: Stupid old techie geek joke
Posted: Thu May 20, 2021 4:26 am
by JayM
"'em are ducks."
"'em are not!"
"'em are too! See 'em wangs?" (wings)
"'ell, I be! 'Em ARE ducks!"
Re: Stupid old techie geek joke
Posted: Thu May 20, 2021 8:28 am
by thinkpadx
i thought you were referring to duckduckgo/duxduxgo