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Originally Posted by andreas_g4 
"MAC'S" as plural of Mac drives me crazy.
I concur.
MAC makes it sound like an abbreviation for something.
Mac is short for Macintosh. You don't write MACintosh, or MACINTOSH.
Therefore: One writes Mac and iMac.
PS: If you disagree... go here or just look at the writing on the side of the box that your iMac/MacBook/MacBook Pro/Mac Mini/Mac Pro came in.
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Originally Posted by calverson
I concur.
MAC makes it sound like an abbreviation for something.
Mac is short for Macintosh. You don't write MACintosh, or MACINTOSH.
Therefore: One writes Mac and iMac.
PS: If you disagree... go here or just look at the writing on the side of the box that your iMac/MacBook/MacBook Pro/Mac Mini/Mac Pro came in.
"MAC" IS an abbreviation for something. It stands for "media access control" and refers to the hardware address of an Ethernet card. Which is why we often correct newbs about that.
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Originally Posted by calverson
I was thinking to myself:
Do you mind telling me who else you might have been thinking to?? 
And why are y'all letting this joke account wind you up?
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Hi guys!
My friend Bens last name is Dover... hehe.. just kidding.
I just wanted to come back to tell you a story. I was in my lab today doing science and Ben comes by. I talk with him for a little while and tease him and he says that I should shove my test tube up my ass! Maybe you guys who aren't scientists won't understand the joke, but it was really funny when you think about it.
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Originally Posted by chris v
Do you mind telling me who else you might have been thinking to??
I think to many people... and they think back to me...
Originally Posted by chris v
And why are y'all letting this joke account wind you up?
I, for one, am not. I find it amusing.
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calverson: I hope I'm not stating the obvious, but just in case you didn't notice, your signature is backwards.
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Originally Posted by besson3c
calverson: I hope I'm not stating the obvious, but just in case you didn't notice, your signature is backwards.
Right, well my signature is backwards, so you are stating the obvious.
It is also upside down.
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calverson needs a lot of things fixing.
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Originally Posted by Butt Sauce!
Maybe you should fix it.
Maybe you should ask Ben.
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Originally Posted by mattyb
calverson needs a lot of things fixing.
Like?
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Originally Posted by besson3c
calverson: I hope I'm not stating the obvious, but just in case you didn't notice, your signature is backwards.
Originally Posted by calverson
Right, well my signature is backwards, so you are stating the obvious.
It is also upside down.
Originally Posted by Butt Sauce!
Maybe you should fix it.
Originally Posted by mattyb
calverson needs a lot of things fixing.
Originally Posted by calverson
Maybe you should ask Ben.
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Originally Posted by mattyb
calverson needs a lot of things fixing.
Brit who lives in France, and loves it.
Now I understand. My bad. 
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Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth
That's the only thing keeping people from knowing how dumb I am.*
*not counting the actual content of my posts.
Same here.
Same here.
We should do a "No using the Safari-built-in-spell-checker-as-you-type" day. On a day I will be absent. With an excuse from my doctor.
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97 times out of 100 I will type "thnaks" instead off "thanks" at the end of an email. I even think (to myself) consciously "Okay, self, don't type "thnaks," as I'm typing it, but I type thnaks anyway.
This psot was brought to you by Llamas number 6 and 7.
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I thought number 7 was the curious one.... Thanks for setting me straight.
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Originally Posted by chris v
97 times out of 100 I will type "thnaks" instead off "thanks" at the end of an email. I even think (to myself) consciously "Okay, self, don't type "thnaks," as I'm typing it, but I type thnaks anyway.
Ha, I have the exact same problem!
Oh, and Butt Sauce:
Do you really make Science with real Scientists? Like facts in books and such stuff?
Cool!
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Yes, don't listen to Ben. Ben is not a scientist he just hangs around me all the time bothering me. I'm a scientist though. I even own 27 test tubes although Ben steals some of them sometimes.
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Originally Posted by Butt Sauce!
Yes, don't listen to Ben. Ben is not a scientist he just hangs around me all the time bothering me. I'm a scientist though. I even own 27 test tubes although Ben steals some of them sometimes.
What science?
What sort of experiments do you do?
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I'm a chemist. I told you about the experiment with the rat skin, the one with the aunt, I do others like that with chemicals and various objects. I think that maybe I accidentally created some sort of love potion because Ben is crazy about me, but yah. Chemical experiments and a lot of mixing things together. I do a lot of experiments with ping pong balls to. This one time this spider that I caught put a spider web around the ping pong ball after a long time!
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Originally Posted by chris v
This psot was brought to you by Llamas number 6 and 7.
Camelids rule!
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