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To: DownSouth who wrote (30777)	8/30/2000 8:54:06 PM
From: Normandi	Respond to of 54805

"This virus thing has me bumfuzzled."....Hmmmm.."Bumfuzzled" Damn Jerry...Hope we can't catch the Bumfuzzled part over the net. either! Cheers ~Norm

To: DownSouth who wrote (30777)	8/30/2000 9:05:04 PM
From: Thomas Mercer-Hursh	Respond to of 54805

This virus thing has me bumfuzzled. Don't be. Lots of people just forward such things without doing anything to verify them at all because they think they are being good citizens. This one even has a URL pointing to a official description of the virus, so it clearly was a valid concern at some time. It is only careful notice of the dates that makes one wonder whether the virus is actually that persistent, which suggests that lots of folks aren't keeping their virus definitions current or it would have been damped out, or whether this is just another one of those messages that gets forwarded and forwarded and forwarded and comes back around once a year or so. The jokes certainly work that way. Some of this stuff has been going around for years and years and years. You could always ask the sys admin if there was some reason for fresh concern or whether it had just gotten through his/her sieve.

To: DownSouth who wrote (30777)	8/30/2000 10:38:21 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 54805

OT Virus Some computer viruses can remain dormant on machines which have been out of service for awhile, especially laptops. It could be that a laptop that was in a cabinet for a year was re-attached to the net, triggered the virus scan, and so the alert was sent as a standard precaution. I still get 4 or 5 RE: Joke messages a week although the servers strip off the actual attached virus. TP

To: DownSouth who wrote (30777)	8/31/2000 4:39:38 PM
From: hueyone	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 54805

Alert: I have just completed a real time experiment in the "Buy a Gorilla/King at any price theory" which was heavily promoted on this thread back in the heady days of February and March early this year. While cooking a beautiful waffle for breakfast one crisp morning in early March, I decided to act on a combination of the Peter Lynch theory of investing in what you understand, and the Gorilla Game theory. So I got out my NancyTheAceProgrammer cookbook and started cooking away. I just had to have a mmmbite of NTAP waffle. But while waiting for this scrumptious waffle to cool, I finally lost my mind and my patience and I took my first waffle MBite at a split adjusted cost of $114.40 per banana. Holy doughhead!! Needless to say my broadband pipe was burned to a crisp and six weeks later all I had to show for my efforts was an old moldy half life NTAP waffle lying on the data storage counter top. But I held on, worked everyday on my long term waffle cooking techniques and after a while my dough began to rise. Well this morning, less than six months later, I cooked up a beauty---an epic NTAP waffel of even bigger, more beautiful proportions than the one I cooked six months ago. Someone offered me $117 for it, but I am not biting. I don't want to get burned again. I am going to just freeze it in my appliance storage section and check back again in six months. I am a beleiver in long term cookin now! Best, Huey@don'trecommendtryingthis@hm.com