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Re: Help for an IT illeterate

#21 Post by MBH » Sun Apr 26, 2009 11:35 pm

Scurra wrote: (And if you want to know why you've got a post count higher than the national debt, it's because you can't resist making comments like that. :lol:)

.... and we love you for it :D

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Re: Help for an IT illeterate

#22 Post by Bunnylump » Sun Apr 26, 2009 11:38 pm

clvrlad wrote:well i brought my dongle to the last meet............
Is it detachable then? Like Scurra's stick?
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Re: Help for an IT illeterate

#23 Post by LAT » Sun Apr 26, 2009 11:40 pm

Bunnylump wrote: And NO LAT I am not jealous that I don't have a dongle.
Well I'd love one. Whatever it is. :?

Would it help me pack? Which is what I really should be doing.

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Re: Help for an IT illeterate

#24 Post by Bunnylump » Sun Apr 26, 2009 11:42 pm

I think you'd have to ask one of the resident dongle experts about that.
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Re: Help for an IT illeterate

#25 Post by MBH » Sun Apr 26, 2009 11:42 pm

Grrrrrr - not another one mixing a 'dongle' up with 'go-go-gadget arms'.... They are NOT the same thing










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Re: Help for an IT illeterate

#26 Post by LAT » Sun Apr 26, 2009 11:48 pm

Can I have some of them too then? :)

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Re: Help for an IT illeterate

#27 Post by Bunnylump » Sun Apr 26, 2009 11:57 pm

I like the sound of one of those. Much more fun than a dongle.
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Re: Help for an IT illeterate

#28 Post by katsmom » Mon Apr 27, 2009 8:30 am

is a dongle the technical term for the brainstick that lets you go online?

for the record bunny, i was laughing at the dongle too. many hours later.

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Re: Help for an IT illeterate

#29 Post by Wulfruna » Mon Apr 27, 2009 10:46 am

katsmom wrote:is a dongle the technical term for the brainstick that lets you go online?
So then..... Scurra has both a dongle and a brainstick .... well that figures !
And thanks, Bunny for starting the laughter - this thread has really cheered up my Monday morning :D

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Re: Help for an IT illeterate

#30 Post by Scurra » Mon Apr 27, 2009 10:51 am

We really ought to apologise to Biscuit who started two perfectly reasonable threads which appear to have ended up talking about dongles and jelly...

Then again, maybe not.
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Re: Help for an IT illeterate

#31 Post by MBH » Mon Apr 27, 2009 11:43 am

I think that I can see Biscuit tucked in a corner quivering with laughter. Once she had the sensible answers on the first half of the first page (which are more than good enough to decide what to do on her trip) she came up with:
Biscuit wrote:I think I am going to ask my son what a dongle is!!! Hope it doesn't embarrass him

IT'S HER FAULT!!!!! :lol:

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Re: Help for an IT illeterate

#32 Post by giraffe » Mon Apr 27, 2009 11:55 am

Scurra wrote:We really ought to apologise to Biscuit who started two perfectly reasonable threads which appear to have ended up talking about dongles and jelly...

Then again, maybe not.
Dongles and Jelly? No thanks, it sounds a bit crunchy. Ice cream would go better.

(No, not dongles and ice-cream.....) :roll:

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Re: Help for an IT illeterate

#33 Post by Bunnylump » Mon Apr 27, 2009 5:56 pm

Giraffe you've started me off all over again. Helpless with laughter. And I did promise Scurra last night that I'd behave. :lol: :lol:
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Re: Help for an IT illeterate

#34 Post by giraffe » Mon Apr 27, 2009 6:00 pm

I didn't promise I would. :twisted:

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Re: Help for an IT illeterate

#35 Post by clvrlad » Mon Apr 27, 2009 6:10 pm

i dont think scurra believed you bunny ;-)
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Re: Help for an IT illeterate

#36 Post by tricia » Mon Apr 27, 2009 6:15 pm

I'm laughing to - my mind is boggled by the thought's of dongles

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Re: Help for an IT illeterate

#37 Post by Bunnylump » Mon Apr 27, 2009 6:21 pm

Boggling dongles. Doggling bongles.

Oh deary me. Don't do this to me.
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Re: Help for an IT illeterate

#38 Post by nell » Tue Apr 28, 2009 9:22 pm

Bunnylump wrote::lol: :lol: ... a whole conversation between three grown men about something called a dongle ...
Have only just discovered this thread (sorry to be a bit late) but I was reading it fine (having heard of dongles and got over the initial laughter back then) but your comment here brought back the tears of laughter!! :lol:

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Re: Help for an IT illeterate

#39 Post by MBH » Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:41 pm

I have no idea why I'm posting this here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akoS4D_pdVY

katsmom - do NOT show Kat after that last one :D

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Re: Help for an IT illeterate

#40 Post by Wulfruna » Wed Apr 29, 2009 7:30 pm

wonderful :lol: :lol: :lol: That really puts donglers in their place :D
I can't take much more of this without running out of tissues to mop up the tears - let's just hope that the original dongle solved the problem????

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