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thE lifE oF A boB
The 90s ushered in the world of the personal computer.
Seems everyone got one and many learned how to turn them on immediately. Some did not.
For those technologically challenged, companies began to produce ‘user-friendly’ applications. Soon, hordes of “newbies” as we called them, landed in online CHAT rooms to test their wings.
At the time I was a [SYSOP], a SYStems OPerator in the Canada Forum. It was part of a much larger Compuserve (Times Warner) online community.
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SYSOPs ran the forums, managed the librairies and patrolled chat rooms, behind the scenes to make sure users were safe. We also were the goto people to answer questions with all sorts of comupter-related problems.
In the CANADA Forum we had another SYSOP called Bob. He and I would write 'stories' about antics in the forum's rooms, treating them like a virtual world and post them for users enjoyment and involvement.
Well Bob was a real life civil servant and went on vacation one summer.
Dangerous move (LOL)
While he was away I kept writing about 'happenings' in his 'rooms'. Other members were also featured. All in fun < g >….
The following is a peek inside... thE lifE oF A boB
Deep Fried bobBy
Our buddy (virtual) boB was on top of it like gravy on fries.
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Officials said some 3,000 tubes of fried chicken-scented sunscreen
were snapped up in two hours. Yep, sun-protection lotion, SPF 30,
was scented to smell like fried chicken.
Now boB took his pumpkin-spice-everything this Halloween
one step further.
His face is now officially "Le Donald - orange" thanks to Crispy
chicken sunscreen ...while his hair remains the flyaway version of
corn silk gone retro...
boB may have missed the point the Donald is trying to make though. Since subtlety is not boB’s forté or short suit as we all well know.
In some venues it’s suggested that this may just be the Trump camp’s strategy to “get the black vote” out. After all what’s not to like? Taco for the Mexicans and fried chicken scent for the black vote.
Sounds like the deplorables have hit pay dirt in a manner of speaking. Right?
Now as well as being able to see him coming a virtual mile away one will be able to 'smell' him and his friends... in any crowd...
boB on the other hand was last seen running madly through town followed by a menagerie of dogs, cats and werewolves, bears and ghost and goblins, the odd witch and rats galore.
It is 🎃 Halloweenie 🎃 don’tcha know?