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jcadam · May 20, 2002, 05:42 PM

I've got this here story for y'all:

My mother-in-law has a Pentium classic 75mhz POS (it's an IBM Aptiva, I think) that she uses with a cheap-a$$ 13" fuzzy curved like a pregnant-belly monitor.

So, I think, "I'm a nice guy, I've got my Beige G3 sitting around not doing much besides serving as a net browsin' machine, I'll give it to her."

Now, this Beige G3 has been upgraded to a 333mhz G3 w/ 1MB L2, 320 megs of RAM, a 15gig hard drive, 6mb VRAM, external 56k modem, and is teamed up with an Apple Multiple Scan 20 display (20" Trinitron).

I ask her "Do you want this stuff?"
"Sure" she says.

Now, keep in mind that with the mother-in-law resides a pc-zealot ogre-beast (teenage son). I plopped the machine and monitor on the floor of their "computer room (if that's what you call a couple of PCs in a spare bedroom)"

I then left.

The ogre-beast cast himself upon the Apple hardware like a somalian on a big mac.
I return the next day to find the Apple monitor plugged into the beast's Gateway K7 POS (why oh why did I give them the adapter?) and the Beige G3 shoved into a corner under a stack of books. No doubt the predator will soon tear open the G3 case and rape it for parts (fortunately, he thinks the machine is older than it actually is, for it looks kind of like the Powermac 7200s he's used at school that "suck", so the rape of the G3 may be delayed for a few days). The external modem also lay near the K7 with the round plug of the mac serial cable dangling near one of the PC's PS/2 ports (please tell me he didn't try what I think he tried).

I believe that the ogre-beast spake falsely to my mother-in-law, telling her that "all macs suck because they don't run windows", or other such rubbish.

I have half a mind to rescue the G3 (I think the monitor is already lost), but worry the mother of the ogre-beast may be offended.

chris v · May 20, 2002, 05:51 PM

It's your solemn duty to go rescue that machine. Remember Sid's room in Toy Story?? Need I say more?

CV

ReggieX · May 20, 2002, 05:56 PM

Originally posted by jcadam:
"all macs suck because they don't run windows"

Suck like a fox!

boardsurfer · May 20, 2002, 05:57 PM

Dude, you need to rescue your machine! In the name of all that is holy (or whatever) get your mac away from the pre-pubescent-ogre-beast, or run the risk of having it crammed full of porn. Or at the very least set it up properly for them to use. Give them a chance to see that it is not a POS. (I know it isn't).

BS

Robert Jung · May 20, 2002, 06:00 PM

Make sure you confront the guy and give 'im a good smiting!

Eug · May 20, 2002, 06:01 PM

I'll take your G3. It'll have a good home here.

theUpsetter · May 20, 2002, 06:01 PM

in the name of all that is good! rescue that Mac! Just explain politely to your mother in law that you cannot leave any Macintosh to be pillaged and raped or have its components subjected to the humilation of having to be part of a windows machine.

finboy · May 20, 2002, 07:34 PM

Yeah, don't leave it there, whatever you do! You can always find someone who can put it to good use. Obviously, they can't!

boardsurfer · May 20, 2002, 07:45 PM

How hilarious is this!? So far everyone has responded as though you have abandoned your baby at a crack house! LOL!

daimoni · 01:23 AM

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Ti X · May 20, 2002, 09:02 PM

Ah, the all-mighty mother inlaw!! I suppose she is brainwashed by her son, and his love of all that is evil. Luckily my mother inlaw believes that I have fallen from the computer god heaven, and I can do no wrong (as far as technology is concerned).

For god sake, get that beloved G3 out of there before the teenage ogre fills it with used Kleenex, after using his PC for what it does best!

Mac Zealot · May 21, 2002, 03:47 AM

I feel sorry for the poor g3... take it outta that place!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No computer diserves sitting in a corner under something

IUJHJSDHE · May 21, 2002, 06:46 AM

Originally posted by boardsurfer:
How hilarious is this!? So far everyone has responded as though you have abandoned your baby at a crack house! LOL!

What do you expect, we are a cult!

Originally posted by jcadam:
I believe that the ogre-beast spake falsely to my mother-in-law, telling her that "all macs suck because they don't run windows", or other such rubbish.

WHAT AND IGNORANT PC-ZEALOT SOB!!

God I hate that.

In any case HURRY HURRRY HURRY rescue the mac ASAP!!!!

I hate ignorant people who think macs suck because it does not run windows, there is so much wrong with that statment I don't know were to start!

Now off my rants and go get thats mac!

NOW!!

[ 05-21-2002: Message edited by: IUJHJSDHE ]

chris v · May 21, 2002, 07:03 AM

Originally posted by Ti X:


For god sake, get that beloved G3 out of there before the teenage ogre fills it with used Kleenex, after using his PC for what it does best!

Kleenex?? Solitaire???? OMG/WTF???

CV

jcadam · May 21, 2002, 10:42 AM

I'll be going over to the 'lair of the ogre-beast' this afternoon. The teenage daughter seemed to show a faint amount of interest in using the machine (her fairly new Compaq is in the shop for the third time), so I'll set it up and see what she thinks of it.
Of course, I'll have to set it up on one of the 13" fuzzy pregnant-belly IBM monitors, so it won't be as cool.

jcadam · May 21, 2002, 10:49 AM

Originally posted by daimoni:


Serves you right. You didn't finish the job properly (like a true professional would)... so stop whining like a child.

The correct thing to do would have been to clear off the other crap in the room, set up the Mac nicely on a table, bring you mother-in-law over, adjust the lumbar support on the chair, show her how to get around the Mac OS (she ain't psychic, afterall), show her how easy it is to connect to the Internet all by herself, how to check mail, how to file documents she creates and where they go, and show her how easily the Mac integrates with all her files on the crappy PC. Get her all set up and loving it... and then pre-emptively *****-slap the teenage son.

I offered to set it up. The mother-in-law said "We don't have a place to put it right now. After I get my files off my IBM, I'll put the mac in its place"

"Allright" I said. "I'll be back on Tuesday anyways, so I can set it up then."

"Sure. I'll ask my son to set it up for me, and you can finish when you get here on Tuesday."

IUJHJSDHE · May 21, 2002, 04:32 PM

Originally posted by jcadam:

"Sure. I'll ask my son to set it up for me, and you can finish when you get here on Tuesday."

Wow that dident turn out to well did it?

Talk to her about what she said, use it as ammo to stop the ogre mac hating *****!