From Byte Magazine's "BIX" online system, back in 1988

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 No matter how hard I try to find some justification for the idea, touch
screens still look idiotic. I've threatened severe bodily injury to people
who put fingerprints on my $500 monitor. If someone tapped a Cross pen on
a $2500 monitor, I'm afraid I'd just murder them on the spot.

 Besides the effort of holding your arm out and pawing at the monitor, who
wants to live with fingerprints and scratches on the screen? And like
Dvorak mentioned one time, what if a big housefly or something landed on
the screen and started walking around???
                                         -dave2, BIX


 The handicapped parking is almost never available for the handicapped
anyway, and IMHO a lot of hassle would be saved if the spots were just
repainted to regular parking places.

 Stupidest example I ever saw:  Freeway Medical Center, in Little Rock,
Arkansas.  There are probably 30 handicapped spots, halfway out in the
middle of the parking lot instead of the door like normal.  The spots are
all painted bright blue with red trim - slick, as I found by busting my
ass walking over one.  And they're on a 30-degree incline with a straight
shot to a 6-lane road.  "Hokay, Ethel. Let's get you in the chair. WHOA!
Ethel! ETHEL! COME BACK, ETHEL!" as she hits about 80mph before jumping
the curb into traffic like Evel Kneivel...                  -dave2, BIX



When I was a kid I thought there were three kinds of ice cream - white, brown, 
and red.  We raised strawberries in the garden, so I knew the red ice cream 
had nothing to do with strawberries despite the name.  As for the white and 
brown, I could seldom tell any difference between them, and thought "vanilla" 
was just what you got when you processed milk without adding anything to it.

 I was in my late teens before I ever came across any real chocolate, and in 
my twenties when I discovered "vanilla" was actually a flavor.
                                         -dave2, BIX
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