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Originally Posted by Snowflake
So, what are the details of the great fishing debacle?  What's it got to do with not being allowed to have fancysound cards? |
Well..... Since you asked.....
Back in '97 I had my home office in a corner of the basement. Early one morning my lovely wife went down to start a load of laundry. As she was loading the machine she heard "Drip, Drip..." We had had problems with leaks (see
pinhole leaks) so she was concerned and started looking around. She could not find the leak but every 30 seconds or so she would hear "Drip Drip..." So she kept looking and looking.....
'97 Also saw the introduction of the first interesting massively multiplayer online game (mmog): Ultima Online. In order to create a kick-ass character you needed to raise you stats. One way to raise wisdom (or was it IQ) was fishing at the stream near town. I created a fishing macro (you could get away with that back then) and left it running all night. Each time it made a cast into the river you heard: "Drip, Drip..."
And she kept looking and looking...