[Vampyr]

aguahombre, on 2012-March-18, 22:18, said:

Actually, the dog would have a better chance f2f. If he lifted up his leg on my keyboard he would be dead.

Poor doggie.

Is that really preferable to on your trousers?

[aguahombre]

I can wash the trousers

[mgoetze]

There are keyboards which you can run through the dishwasher and they will be as good as new afterwards. Look for 1980s or early 1990s IBM models in particular.

[aguahombre]

mgoetze, on 2012-March-20, 10:02, said:

There are keyboards which you can run through the dishwasher and they will be as good as new afterwards. Look for 1980s or early 1990s IBM models in particular.

Good idea. Then he can earn masterpoints for me on-line, which he probably couldn't do f2f unless we look alike (we don't quite).

In fact, some f2f opponents know I don't have a dog.

[pigpenz]

Vampyr, on 2012-March-18, 22:07, said:

This is clear. The diversion into imposters, including dogs, in live bridge is amusing, but online there really is no way of knowing. Ever.

There used to be a guy from KC/Omaha who had a LM card in 3 different names....all I know is somewhere along the way he
got into trouble with the mob and no one has seen him for about 25 years.

There are on BBO players who useseveral logons and somehow get the BBO bosses to combine all the points from the different
logins in to one point accumulation.....unless they did away with it, but it was that way several years ago.

[aguahombre]

pigpenz, on 2012-March-20, 10:13, said:

There used to be a guy from KC/Omaha who had a LM card in 3 different names....all I know is somewhere along the way he
got into trouble with the mob and no one has seen him for about 25 years.

He resides next door to Jimmy Hoffa.

[brian_m]

mgoetze, on 2012-March-20, 10:02, said:

There are keyboards which you can run through the dishwasher and they will be as good as new afterwards. Look for 1980s or early 1990s IBM models in particular.

There was a laptop computer called a Husky Hunter back in the mid 80s that was designed for messy environments. If you went to their headquarters (then Coventry, UK) they had a tank of fish in the lobby, with a working PC sitting on the bottom of the tank.

Brian.

[helene_t]

In 1986, I once bought a jar of strawbery jamp and put it in the same shopping back as a floppy disk from my work. A few hours later I had to take the floppy disk out of its cover and wash it using a dish brush. I lost no data.

But I told the callcenter operators to drink only black coffee and diet coke if they were prone to spilling drinks on the keyboards. Cleaning a keyboard full of sugary drinks was a lot of work. It was possible, though.