bellow are a few quotes from people who think that the computer will not be really used :o) Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." --Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949 "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." --Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981 "I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." --The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957 Strange eh? how time changes things? Most of us have a terrabyte hard drive or at least an external one... what would happen if we had NO electricity?
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Computers! naa they will never catch on?
John Keats
I’m an avid fan of John Keats, read his poetry when I was young and to this day still love the Ode to Autumn. It was sad how he died such a young man, I visited the Keats and Shelly House at the Spanish steps in Italy this year and was moved by the simple rooms and wonderful pictures of him so carefully preserved at The Keats-Shelley House it contained a lock of Keats’s hair, his death mask, some original letters, and various other mementos and pictures .
.Just wonderful to sit and read his books in the same room where he sat.
Essex English
A -Z of Essex English:
ASSA COMMONS – Our Parliament Building.
ART ATTACK – Extremely perturbed, as in “Don’t tell Sharon, She’ll have an art attack.”
ARST – Past tense of ask. “Jordan, I must’ve arst ya free fazzund times to
clear up yer room.”
BANNSA – A person employed to deny access or eject troublemakers at a club.
“Dave’s got izself a job as a bannsa.”
BANTY – A chocolate and coconut snack bar.
BAVE – To wash oneself.
BOAF – The two. “Oi Dave, ooja fancy most, Sharon or Tracy?” “Boaf” is the reply.
BRANSATCH – Motor racing circuit in Kent.
CANCEL – Administrative body of a town. “Darren, wive ad annuvva letter
from the cancel.”
CANTAFIT – Fake, as in money.
CHOONA – An edible fish purchased in a tin and usually prepared with mayonnaise.
CORT A PANDA – A big hamburger (smaller than an arf panda)
DAN TO URF – Sensible, practical.
DANNING STREET – Where the Prime Minister lives.
DANSTEZ – On the ground floor , where the biggest telly is.
DREKKUN – Do you consider? as in “Which dog drekkun’ll win the next race?”
EFTY – Considerable. “Ere, Trace, this credit card bill’s a bit efty.”
EJOG – A small, spiky animal (hedgehog).
ERZ – Belonging to her.
EVVY – A big geezer who protects a smaller and more intelligent geezer,
usually for money. “My name’s Frank and this is my evvy, Knuckles.”
EYEBROW – Cultured, intellectual.
FANTIN – A jet of water for drinking or ornament.
FARVA – A posh way of saying Dad.
FATCHA – Margaret, British Prime Minister 1979 – 1990.
FINGY – A person or object whose name doesn’t come to mind. “I ad it off
wiv fingy last night.”
FONG – Skimpy undergarment.
FOR CRYIN AT LAAD – Mild expletive showing annoyance or surprise. E.G.
“For cryin at lad, Britney, if I say Yes will you give it a rest?”
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