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To: Gauguin who wrote (16064)	1/3/1999 4:13:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

You're supposed to clean keyboards? No one told me that. Is this like some computer fact I was supposed to know? OK I'm turning mine upside down. Maybe it will help ---the period key hasn't worked for a really long time unless you hit it hard. --tap,tap,tap,tap,tap,tap,BAM. Tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, BAM. Although the only things that gets spilled on my keys are wine and coffee, I think. Ewwwww-there are small things falling out. Lots of fuzzy crumbs. Seeds!!! Who ate seeds on my computer? Unidentifiable things. They could be podbugs. Or pod people. You just don't know. Wow-A fingernail! I don't have fingernails. WHose is it???? It MIGHT be from a podperson living under the enter key. I don't like this. I should have left things well enough alone. WHO KNOWS WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN ANGERED BY THIS INTRUSION and retaliate in the dead of night. This was a bad idea, gaugie. You may have a very benign, tame keyboard, inured to disruption by constant attention, but mine is a wild, undomesticated thing, replete with the leavings and droppings of years. A feral keyboard. I had better lock the kittens out of the study tonight...they are very small and defenseless. BAM BAM BAM--and the period key still doesn't work. Myabe I can put the crumbs and fingernails back in.....

To: Gauguin who wrote (16064)	1/3/1999 10:36:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

> It uses Oxygen and some fluidless scrubbing bubbles and cost One Dollar.< Ohboy. I can see why your techie gets... patient sometimes. Oxygen is Bad for keyboards. For computers. And "fluidless bubbles"? What the <red hot capsicum verb>?! It will never work, or it will cost more than a dollar a dose. You know those people who clean their homes with, like, lemon rinds and baking soda? Luddite wussies. You need something heavily chlorinated and a good stiff brush to get at the Real keyboard plaque. Maybe little bitty 1000000 psi jets. Like a miniaturized restaurant dishwasher. But oxygen and fluidless bubbles?? Fuhgedit. You need Heavy Industrial Solvents, the kind Known To the State of California to be Like, a Real Drag, Dude. I once opined in chemistry class that a chemical/material was either useful or it was safe. I delighted my classmates and upset, yea scandalized, my chem teacher. But he was a greenie, so why am I not surprised?