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• Some years ago a friend of mine was taking a magnetic computer tape through customs in Egypt.
  The customs staff on discovering the tape started to unreel it onto the floor....
• Bother! said Pooh, as he backed up onto the wrong tape.
• hovelware /shuh'v*l-weir`/ n. 1. Extra software dumped onto a CD-ROM or tape to fill up the remaining space on the medium after the software distribution it's intended to carry
  but not integrated with the distribution. 2. A slipshod compilation of software dumped onto a CD-ROM without much care for organization or even usability....
• hovelware: /shuh'v*l-weir`/ n. Extra software dumped onto a CD-ROM or tape to fill up the remaining space on the medium after the software distribution it's intended to carry
  but not integrated with the distribution. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• How many folk-dancers -- does it take to change a light-bulb?
  Just one, but they break a lot of bulbs, when they drop everything to get onto the dance-floor when they hear the introduction to a dance they want to do....
• TAPE, MAGNETIC A form of storage, tape was especially developed to make it easy to record and re-record valuable images, sounds or data, onto it.
  The tape can then be played back at will, before suddenly getting caught in the heads of your tape deck one day and consequently losing all the valuable images, sounds and/or data....
• Some people come home to unwind; others come home to unravel.
• Quote #517 Cannot handle UTF. The asteroid to kill this dinosaur is still in orbit.
  -- from the BUGS section of Plan 9 "lex...
• I was going to tape some records onto a cassette, but I got the wires backwards.
  I erased all of the records. When I returned them to my friend, he said, "Hey, these records are all blank....