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EZtigER
18-04-2003, 10:50
If this sort of thing floats your boat!...check it out!... :)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2956925.stm

...thing is scientists are worrying a bit, after translating the ancient text Professor Yafel from Brighton University collapsed and with his dying breath whispered 'Microsoft!'

The plot thickens! Were the seeds of Microsofts World Domination planted by Bill Gates ancient ancestors all that time ago?

More news, as long as Microsoft doesn't sh....8.5.6...t u..__us dooo.........


:rolling:
Norphy
21-04-2003, 00:06
Um

Okay

/me backs away very slowly
EZtigER
21-04-2003, 11:56
/best be carefull I might attend one of your LAN events...!

Isnt that right Mr Hat!? :naughty:
Norphy
21-04-2003, 16:32
If you want to attend an HG-LAN, you are more than welcome :)
EZtigER
22-04-2003, 13:21
..any events in London / SE England way?
Norphy
22-04-2003, 21:06
Um

They're only in london :laugh:

Mile End to be specific, E4 postcode.
EZtigER
23-04-2003, 10:12
..small world. I grew up not so far from there. Have walked up Burdett Rd (en route to Mile End U/G station) in many a drunken state over the years...lol
Arachnamus
19-05-2003, 20:43
/me waits til he screws his a-levels and winds up in a crappy london uni so he can gatecrash
Nephand
19-05-2003, 23:05
hmm re: oldest language.

Certainly beats Sumerian writings from 2000-3000 BC.... twice as old and more.
EZtigER
20-05-2003, 14:15
it was the biro that put pundits off with that one... :E
Norphy
20-05-2003, 17:20
Originally posted by Arachnamus
/me waits til he screws his a-levels and winds up in a crappy london uni so he can gatecrash

Try the Queen Mary university, thats where they take place :laugh:
Arachnamus
20-05-2003, 19:57
will end up in westminster if I cant get the grades for durham