Christmas presents? I'd like money. Enough money to overhaul me olde PC. Oh, and ginger beer. Lots of that too. You know, just the essentials .

moon shoes? what is this mysterious item of perambulatory apparel? I have never heard of them, although I remember moon-boots from the 70s.

Hoppity, it'll be an expensive job upgrading your 386, those 30-pin 256kb SIMMS are hard to find now However it just so hapens that your Mullah of Munificence has an upgraded Dell Optiplex GX50 going spare (long story, it was an aquisition from someone who owed me money)

PIV 2.4 with a rather good transverse silenced heatsink/fan
512mb DDR
40gb WDC hdd (IDE)
ATi 9600 Pro AGP
crappy onboard sound
3COM integrated nic
15" TFT
Dell/MS Intellimouse Optical
Dell/MS M'media kb
nice front-panel USB2.0 ports which the Dell case hides away quite neatly
all in a quite neat desktop with quick-release catches and the construction is neatly modular inside, making maintenance quite easy, which would be useful for you, o Rabbit of taking computer to bits all the time.

and I'll throw in XP Pro +SP2, MS-Office 2003, MS-Autoroute 2005, MS-Works Suite 8, MS-Encarta 2005, Photoshop CS2, Diskeeper Pro, and CA EZ AV Armor. Want to make me an offer? Only hard part is getting across the mountains and marshes of Tawakalnistan to your burrow on the other side of the world....

...and it's not really a Dell anymore, except that the cases are quite neat and altogether it looks rather nice.

A "once-Dell"? *Shudder* Thanks anyway, but aside from the case my current PC is superior in every way (or at least equivalent ). Besides, if I can't upgrade my PC with my current "hoard" of legal tender, then how could I afford another PC and shipping? On top of that, I remember the last package I was sent from the UK. It has been... 9 months and counting! Damn UK mail *grumble*. No, I'll stick with Typhon thanks. He has served me well for nigh on two and a half years *pats PC*. Besides, I need to save my money for private health insurance next year, and for the "service and amenities" fees for the last semester of my Masters. *Shuffles off to look under couch cushions for money*

but Borromir is superior to Typhon ;Riven -Dell is just passing through...

good ol' Borromir, he keeps going no matter what Mrs Taw does to him. He even survived Children in Need without a hitch.

Edited by - Tawakalna on 11/19/2005 11:48:09 PM

The moon shoes are like mini trampaleans on your feet. You could jump about 4or5 feet in the air.

I'd like a 42" HD-ready plasma screen tv with hanging bracket...

...but I'll settle for a dvd, a book and a pair of socks

I would perfer the 1st idea better.

i think we should all be naughty so that Santa ( yeah, everyone knows he's real)will bring us coal that we can burn and keep warm over christmas, while the good people can freeze to death in bits of wrapping paper that they have used to try and keep warm.

I love christmas me

O.....ka....y.

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