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Today someone on a Vancouver radio show called in the longest word you can type on one row of the keyboard.

Rather than say what the word is (yet), I was wondering if it was common knowledge or neat trivia as it’s new to me anyway.

I thought it was kinda neat trivia.

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isn’t it?

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er…can I answer? I heard this one before when I was young.

Of course

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It’s the first I heard of it, so I wasn’t sure if every one knew already and I had just missed it before.

I know it may come as quite a shock to you (hope you’re sitting down), but I’ve never taken a keyboarding class or anything where you’d probably pick up something like that.

(True story, not a single typing class! Who’d a thunk it?)

I learned it

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from just being a computer geek kid…reading all those dorky articles in mags and G-files from BBSes.

By any chance…

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…is it ten letters long, faintly homological and a common cause of what would come to be known as carpal tunnel syndrome?

yes

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okay so it IS common knowledge.

I know I’ve heard it before.

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… but I can never remember what it is… I’m not much of a wealth of worthless information, that’s hubby’s dept. 🙂

Well?

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Is anyone going to let the rest of us in on what it is, or are you just going to dance around it like a bunch of f****** ballerinas?!? Christ, people. Tell us what it is.

hmmm

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yep…ok

TYPEWRITER

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Kind of ironic isn’t it?

isn’t it ironic

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are you Alanis Morrisette now? And I hoped you’d look better than that.

sorry

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Damn, that’s whack! (better?)

yo yo yo

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Oz…sup brutha…you get out yo a-game last weekend?

hahaha…and they tried to make “ebonics” a language.

Yeah

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That would have helped the world’s view of the American educational system!

😀

like it can go down

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much further among the industrialized nations?

insane, I tell you…

instead of mugs

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ask for CVS pharmacy gift certificates.

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