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Updated: 10.05.2004
Some light hearted QL related material! You really have to be a keen QLer to appreciate some of these... Feel free to send me any more such sayings or QL-related jokes for inclusion here. In fact, click here to send material to me by email.
QLers do it in black
PC users do it with a QXL
QLers do it with QDOS (kudos)
Super Gold Card users do it Miraculously
German QLers do it with Jochen Merz
Q40 users do it quickly and colourfully
Aurora users do it almost as colourfully
QPC users do it with PCs
Q40 users can do it with Linux
QPAC2 users do it with mice
QL users do it in Quantum Leaps
Geoff Wicks does it in Style (Checker)
Norman Dunbar does it in assembler
The PROGS brothers do it with prowess
QL users do it with Things
Amusing 'alternative' meanings from Roy Wood and others:
IBM - I Blame Microsoft
MICROSOFT - Most Intelligent Customers Realise Our Software Only Fools
Teenagers
MACINTOSH - Most Applications Crash and If Not The Operating System Hangs
ISDN - It Still Downloads Nothing, or It Sends Digital Nonsense
COBOL - Completely Outdated Business Orientated Language
LISP - Lists In Silly Parenthesis
PCMCIA - People Can't Memorise Computer Industry Acronyms
MIPS - Meaningless Information about Processor Speed
SMSQ - Send MicroSoft QLs
SMSQ/E - Some Men Still Question Everything
PC - Potential Catastrophe
DOS - Danger, Obscure Syntax
JAVA - Just Another Verbose Application
AMIGA - A Merely Insignificant Games Addiction
WINDOWS - Weak Idiots Need Dense Obese Windowing Systems
QL - Quaint but Liberating, or Quite Late, or Quaint Lump
HTML - HiT & Miss Language
A collection of Murphy's Law type sayings I compiled some time ago. Click here to read them.
Darren Branagh of Q-Celt Computing in Ireland wrote the very first QL
Joke Book. It consists of two DSDD disks' worth of files.
Click here to download disk 1 (235K).
Click here to download disk 2 (23K).
An article previously published in QL Today.
Click here to read the article.
The cartoons have become a regular feature in QL Today magazine. A gentle bit of QL-related humour to lighten each issue. We started these off in the third issue with that picture of Jochen Merz trying to juggle about 6 phones at the same time after he started publishing QL Today and they grew from there. Many of them are topical, relating to issues in the QL scene or magazine content at the time. Most of the cartoons were from Roy Wood (those labelled 'Woodcuts' and those about The Mice for example) or myself (often about the dreaded Bloggs Computing company), with occasional help from other mischievous souls! Poor Jochen Merz had to view them first to see if they were funny or not (he did reject a few!), but I don't think he ever actually wrote any of the cartoons. These cartoons vary somewhat in file sizes and so on, and most people will have seen many of them before, so just click on the links for the ones you want to view rather than wait for the whole lot to download in one go!
Cartoons From Volume 1 of QL Today
Cartoons From Volume 2 of QL Today
Cartoons From Volume 3 of QL Today
Cartoons From Volume 4 of QL Today
Cartoons From Volume 5 of QL Today
Cartoons From Volume 6 of QL Today
Cartoons From Volume 7 of QL Today
Cartoons From Volume 8 of QL Today
Cartoons From Volume 9 of QL Today