Conversation KillersThatNiceMan asks: Have you ever been talking with people down the pub when somebody throws such a complete curveball (Sample WTF moment: "I wonder what it's like to get bummed") that all talk is stopped dead? Tell us!
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 12 May 2011, 12:53)
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Back when computers belonged only to geeksie around 1980, I was in the computer club at my college. Yes, I know, I might as well have been a train spotter.*
Anyway, one evening a group of us social misfits - overweight, spotty, bespectacled and wearing clothes chosen by our mothers - were working on our project, trying to write Space Invaders in TRS-80 Basic or whatever. But it wasn't working properly; something was wrong with the timing.
Suddenly, I realised what the problem was: we hadn't included the seconds variable in the equation. So, just as the teacher and deputy head walked into the room, I shouted out "We need secs!"
* I've always been afraid that people will realise just how sad and geeky I really am. I call it "anoraknophobia"
(, Fri 13 May 2011, 14:11, 2 replies)
I always fancied the geeks at school(, Fri 13 May 2011, 17:30, closed)
Are you a member of the Prog. Rock band Marillion?(, Fri 13 May 2011, 17:59, closed)
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