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Pastimes : Jokes -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: richard surckla who wrote (936)	11/24/1998 9:35:00 AM
From: Gordon Quickstad	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2733

Wife 1.0 Last year a friend of mine upgraded Girlfriend 1.0 to Wife 1.0 and found it to be a memory hog which left very little system resources or other applications. He is only now noticing that Wife 1.0 also is spawning Child-Processors which are further consuming valuable resources. No mention of these particular phenomena were included in the product brochure or the documentation, although other users have informed him that this is to be expected due to the nature of the application. Not only that, Wife 1.0 installs itself such that it is always launched at system initialization where it can monitor all other system activity. He is finding that some applications such as PokerNight 10.3, BeerBash 2.5, and PubNight 7.0 are no longer able to run on the system at all. Attempts to do so result in overall system crashes even though they always worked fine before. At installation, Wife 1.0 provides no option as to the installations of undesired Plug-ins such as MotherInlaw 55.8 and BrotherInlaw Beta releases. Also, system performance seems to diminish with each passing day. The features he'd like to see in the upcoming Wife 2.0 Include: * A "Don't remind me again!" button. * Minimize button. * An install shield feature that allows Wife 2.0 to be uninstalled at anytime, without the loss of cache and other system resources. * An option to run the network driver in promiscuous mode which would allow the system's hardware probe feature to be more useful. I myself decided to avoid all of the headaches associated with Wife 1.0 by sticking with Girlfriend 2.0. Even here, however, I found many problems. Apparently you cannot install Girlfriend 2.0 on top of Girlfriend 1.0. You must uninstall Girlfriend 1.0 first. Other users say this is a long standing bug which I should have been aware of. Apparently both versions of Girlfriend have conflicts over shared use of the I/O port. To make matters worse, the uninstall program for Girlfriend 1.0 doesn't work very well, leaving undesirable traces of the application throughout the system. Another thing that sucks... ALL versions of Girlfriend continually pop-up little annoying messages about the advantages of upgrading to Wife 1.0!

To: richard surckla who wrote (936)	11/24/1998 10:30:00 AM
From: treetopflier	Respond to of 2733

Vikings and Packers There's a guy from Green Bay (Packer fan) driving from Green Bay to Minneapolis and a guy from Minneapolis (Viking fan) driving from Minneapolis to Green Bay. In the middle of the night, with no other cars on the road, they hit each other head on and both cars go flying off in different directions. The Viking manages to climb out of his car and survey the damage. He looks at his twisted car and says, "Man, I am really lucky to be live!" Likewise the Packer scrambles out of his car and looks at his wreckage. He too says to himself, "I can't believe I survived this wreck!" The Packer fan walks over to the Vikings fan and says, "Hey man, I think this is a sign from God that we should put away our petty differences and live as friends instead of arch rivals." The Viking fan thinks for a moment and says, "You know, you're absolutely right! We should be friends." The Packer fan pops open his trunk and finds a full unopened bottle of Jack Daniels. He says to the Viking fan, "I think this is another sign from God that we should toast to our new found understanding and friendship." The Viking fan says, "You're damn right!" and he grabs the bottle and starts sucking down Jack Daniels. After putting away nearly half the bottle, the Viking fan hands it back to the Packer fan and says, "Your turn!" The Packer fan twists the cap back on the bottle and says, "Nahh, I think I'll wait for the cops to show up.