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Thu 2008-06-12 23:51
There's no kind of atmosphere
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[identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.comThu 2008-06-12 23:21
Spike: *Picks up phone*
Buffy: Who're you gonna call?
Spike: *pause*
Buffy: That phrase is never going to be usable again, is it?

"Who ya gonna call?", "I've got a theory", and "It's cold outside" I think are gone for good... On the other hand, annoyingly, you presumably in the past heard that phrase without hearing that music, so it's like a mid-life crisis or something, our lifetime ambition is something we used to do with impunity... :)
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[personal profile] simontFri 2008-06-13 06:18
Ah yes, "I've got a theory" is definitely another very bad one.
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[identity profile] geekette8.livejournal.comFri 2008-06-13 07:39
Also see:

Colleague: Is X in RAM or Flash?
Me: Flash.
Colleague: Aaa-aaaahhh!

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[personal profile] simontFri 2008-06-13 08:01
I have a pleasant memory of going into one of the Cambridge bookshops around 2001 and finding that they'd marked the various sub-sections of their computing shelves with hand-laser-printed signs saying things like "Java", "SQL", "C++". Most of those signs were completely unhumorous, but one read

Flash
(Aah-aah)

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[identity profile] geekette8.livejournal.comFri 2008-06-13 18:04
Oh, that is brilliant of someone! LOL!
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[identity profile] feanelwa.livejournal.comFri 2008-06-13 11:26
You don't work with a bloke called Robin, do you?
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[identity profile] geekette8.livejournal.comFri 2008-06-13 18:03
No! (Well, yes actually, but it wasn't him that said that, IYSWIM.) I suspect this may be a not uncommon meme among geeks :-)
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