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ah, yes: the things _everyone_ already knows

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ah, yes: the things _everyone_ already knows

So, people who’ve never opened a terminal but who are one of the multiple millions using Gmail today don’t get to learn the secret knock you were taught in 1990?

I like to remind myself: every day, someone’s born who’s never seen The Simpsons.

Just because I (pathetically) happen to know every episode back and forth is a terrible reason to sniff that these new people don’t get to enjoy it too. I may personally be sick to death of “Krusty Gets Kancelled,” but today some lucky kid gets to watch it for the first time and love it like I did.

In the early 90s.

Why don't you just shut up? By: Internet Rockstar (15 replies) October 23, 2007 - 12:08pm
 
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