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Most Useless Things - Ever

Mar 2, 2004 10:13AM PST

1. Diet Coke with a SuperSize Meal.

2. Congressional Ethics Committee.

3. The helmets worm by Kamikaze pilots.

4. The F11 or F12 keys on your keyboard.

5. The button you push to make the light change so you can cross the street?

6. The spoiler on a Corolla GT.

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Can you add more to the list?

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Five more
Mar 2, 2004 9:26PM PST

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The knowledge that the rat is the only mammal that can't vomit.

An out of date virus scanner

T!TS on a boar hog

A deer head on the wall

A sleeping pill given to you in a hospital

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I don't know about the deer head. It's a great place to hang your hat.
Mar 3, 2004 12:32AM PST
Wink
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and better than the mother-in-laws ......err....photo hung there. :-)
Mar 3, 2004 7:38AM PST

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Re: careful John that's one step from a father in law...nt
Mar 3, 2004 10:20PM PST

???

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Yep, sort of
Mar 4, 2004 2:25AM PST

the old sterotyping from TV sitcoms of the 50's.
Actually, I've had the greatest mother-in-laws anyone could wish for.

A parallel substitute:

"I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her. - Ellen DeGeneres"

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2 more
Mar 3, 2004 12:26AM PST

1. Braile on Drive up ATMs
2. Swabing a criminals arm with alcohol prior to giving the lethal injection.

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Let me think
Mar 3, 2004 12:53AM PST

1. An Apple Newton
2. A discount certificate for a Super Combo at Loeb's theaters
3. The advertisement, which arrives in the mail, for a sale which ended yesterday
4. The amphibious car
5. A knife in a gun fight

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[nt] Getting your notice of a government job interview....one day late.
Mar 3, 2004 12:52PM PST

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One more
Mar 5, 2004 12:14AM PST

Dave's frequent posts trying to needle the Bush administration.

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Two more
Mar 3, 2004 2:16AM PST

1. AOL disks.

2. Internal Investigations.

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I don't know about AOL disks.
Mar 3, 2004 5:58AM PST

I'm saving them. I figure one day they'll be collectors items on ebay. I like the art work on one of them.

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Re:Two more
Mar 3, 2004 12:21PM PST

Tie the AOL disks in fruit trees to scare away the birds!

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I've done that! It works. For a while anyway. ;-)
Mar 3, 2004 1:15PM PST

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Then you change to a large plastic owl. When that quits working you go to the rubber snake. Then you start over again.

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Along with that, "Streamlining the working environment"
Mar 3, 2004 12:54PM PST

"Allright everybody, time to move the furniture around again so the new boss will look like he's whipping us into shape and accomplishing a lot from the get go."

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Re:Most Useless Things - Ever
Mar 3, 2004 7:23AM PST

Have seen the one about "The helmets worn by Kamikaze pilots " in several jokes...etc. Actually they did not wear helmets, but leather fleece lined flight caps with ear flaps. They were popular and my mother made me wear one in cold weather during the 30's early 40's in southern US.

Useless things, well we used to say many years ago, "It's like txts on a boar hog."

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Re:(nt) Windshield Wipers on the Headlights of a Mercedes Benz
Mar 3, 2004 7:54AM PST

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Actually those do have a purpose
Mar 3, 2004 10:15PM PST

You can use them to get mud/snow off the headlights.

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Re:Actually those do have a purpose
Mar 3, 2004 10:43PM PST

I never had the pleasure of owning one of those cars Josh and can see the purpose of it. But, I did own a 69 Buick Riviera with flip top headlights and what a pain those were. I suppose the heat from the headlights keep the wipers pretty movable on the Mercedes.

George

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Re:Re:Actually those do have a purpose
Mar 3, 2004 10:48PM PST

I've never had a car that nice either (talking about the Mercedes, not the Buick, LOL), but I always thought those headlight wipers were pretty cool. I remember flip-top headlights, and how one side always seemed to be broken, creating the impression that the car was winking at you.

Happy

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Re:Re:Re:Yep, My car did a lot of winking. It was a happy time hunk-a-junk(nt)
Mar 3, 2004 10:55PM PST

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Re:Most Useless Things - Ever
Mar 3, 2004 12:07PM PST

Actually the F11 and F12 keys are used quite often in business systems that are located on mainframes. AS/400 is the most common that comes to mind and is quite popular in the manufacturing sector. I've used several systems that not only use F1 thru F12 but Shift+F1 thru Shift+F12 for F13 thru F24 as well. BPCS, MAPICS and KBM are 3 that come to mind at the moment, all of which are ERP business systems for manufacturing.

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Function keys-not only mainframes, Clay
Mar 3, 2004 10:48PM PST

The accounting software I support uses Shift+F12 for editing internal program paths, such as where it looks for the database. Very useful function especially when remapping drives or changing servers. This is a Windows and Access2k based accounting package. But I honestly don't remember the last time I used the F11 key; it was probably in DOS days.

Ruth

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F11 is used in Microsoft Word
Mar 3, 2004 11:05PM PST

ALT+F11 opens the VB Editor.

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F11 - very useful for flipping from full screen on and off in Internet Explorer :) NT
Mar 4, 2004 8:44AM PST

NT

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NT -- In Opera too
Mar 4, 2004 9:01AM PST

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I wasn't aware of that. That's neat to know. -nt
Mar 4, 2004 2:30PM PST

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I don't use IE but it works just as well in Opera

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It even works in Netscape!
Mar 4, 2004 2:34PM PST

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Hardly a day goes by when I don't learn something new.

Thanks for posting that, Steve.

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Firefox too...
Mar 4, 2004 7:46PM PST
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nipples on a man NT or * or whatever
Mar 3, 2004 11:42PM PST

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