Seth,
My worst college grades involved the study of poetry. With that in mind, and tongue in cheek, I cannot resist a challenge:

campaign money should
be limited to those whose
ads are in Haiku

Haloscan/blogger and my typing probably put the lines out of sync...which is OK, just put a slash after 5/7/5. And give me a D+

BB --

Don't sweat it, LOL, we all have formidable skills at one thing or another, but there are some areas each of us are better off not pursuing...

Sheeesh ... sure glad I don't use a windows machine or I'd have to learn poetry too .... LOL

P.S.: ABF and Merge are the same person... Me.. ;-)

Here's my contribution...

System crashed again?
You could have purchased a Mac.
Too late now sucker!

(For the record, yes, I am a beleaguered Windows user.)

Merge/ABF --

I'm a Windows man to the end... Put me in front of the standard Apple, I'm challenged but slowly functional -- put me in front of a Mac -- you may as well require me to translate Sanskrit.

Civil Truth and BB --

Okay, well...

A liberal's folly
is in his tragic neglect
of life's realities

Heh heh...

Yes ... we are on opposite sides of the fence on OS flavors, but the same in our desire to take advantage of what technology works in our favor. Windows for me is like walking on broken glass, but I somehow manage. I'm actually stronger in Unix/Linux, and now that Mac is Unix, it is much easier. The OS is not important, it's what works for you personally, and allows you to achieve the end result in the desired time frame. After your in the desired program, now, there all relatively the same anyway.

We step into the stream,
We speak a different language.
It matters not, because the water allows us to communicate.

Wow, that's still circulating around???

LOL, cute haikus the commenters have posted!

ABF --

I actually only started going online in this century, so I don't have the advantage of experience many others had in growing with today's technology, and even then, I was practically dragged online -- where technology's concerned, except as an end user, and I mean all the way on the far end, I'm pretty much a dinosaur.

Even in my own industry, where technology plays a major role these days, I am an end user -- I know how to deploy and use the technology, but when it comes to the technical stuff, I bring in subcontractors.

I learned to access the WWW via Windows and I suppose my knowledge stayed right there. When I first used an Apple, I had to ask questions like, "How do I get there? What do I click on for this?" and so forth. When I first sat down at a Mac, I was utterly flabbergasted.

I know Linux has been taking quite a few important customers away from MS the last couple or so years, so they must be doing something right. :-)

Atheling2 --

I thought I might have seen this before, but wasn't sure -- I get so much traffic between forwards, personal and blog related email and business email that I often don't have the time to allocate to the forwards, so I'll either skim them or say, "I'll get to this later" and then it kinda sorta ends up a couple of pages away as other email arrives, and I forget about it.

I do think, however, that this one's kind of cute, especially in view of the fury and frustration such things actually inspire among many of us (me especially, LOL).