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Thread ID: 92349	2008-08-07 03:40:00	WIRED???	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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695527	2008-08-07 03:40:00	NOTE: This MAY be longer than 30 words, I didn't count them . . . be warned! OK . . I went to the Veterans' Hosp Monday (two light times and three dark times ago to youse guys) for my chemo-therapy, and found a neat magazine on the counter: WIRED . It had some really great articles and prognostications (for people who DON'T read Hemingway, prognostication means: "guessing the future") . . . about AmericaOnLine and things with outdated 333 MHZ processors . :blush: "Kewl" I said out loud, and my wife bumps me with her shoulder asking: "What's so 'kewl' now! The last time you said 'kewl' you said you wanted to get married . I'm on to you, and you can't 'kewl' me again!" "This is a great magazine . . . crisp! enameled! pictures!, great! writing! skills! and! style! and! they! can! see! the! future! perfectly!" I was happily saying . At that moment, one of those drop-out little subscription postcards falls into my lap and I picked it up and it said: "Just $12 . 00 US for a WHOLE YEAR of 12 issues!" "Wow" I said and then I showed it to my wife, not wanting to use 'kewl' here again . "How can they possibly print such a high-class magazine for only $12 . 00 US a year?" she asked . "Do you only get one?" Then I noticed the date on the cover: Oct 1999! Ouch! Now my wife is laughing and saying that I am a great big boob (US for idiot) and that by now, almost 9 years later what with the fuel costs, paper costs, ink costs and the writers getting higher union scale, it must cost over $30 . 00 a year . I told her I'd Google it when I got outta chemo therapy and we'd see! Fast forward to today when I honestly felt a lot better as the drugs had made me ill, nauseated and cranky, and I fire up Google and find WIRED's website . "Hmmm", I said, "What-do-ya-know! They're still in business!" Scrolling down I find the SUBSCRIPTION RATE of . . . get this . . . $10 . 00 US a YEAR! I subscribed immediately before they figger out their big mistake! How do ya think they can do that? The preceding is NOT a paid testimonial or subversive advertisement for any magazine, book or periodical by me .	SurferJoe46 (51)
695528	2008-08-07 03:59:00	Sounds like you have newer magazines in waiting rooms over there than we have here. I actually picked up a 1988 Nat Geo in a doctors waiting room last year. Hoped that his knowledge had kept up with time better than his mag collection had. Ken	kenj (9738)
695529	2008-08-07 04:01:00	Sounds like you have newer magazines in waiting rooms over there than we have here. I actually picked up a 1988 Nat Geo in a doctors waiting room last year. Hoped that his knowledge had kept up with time better than his mag collection had. Ken It's all OK as long as the Doc is practicing 2008+ medicine!	SurferJoe46 (51)
695530	2008-08-07 04:51:00	I have a prescription to Wired, will set you back about $90 to get it to NZ (1 years subscription). Absilutely brilliant mag though, have been a fan and subscriber for many years.	Jan Birkeland (4741)
695531	2008-08-07 05:23:00	I have a prescription to Wired, .......... Did you get to sign up for the mag through your doctor Jan?:p :D	bevy121 (117)
695532	2008-08-07 05:52:00	I have a prescription to Wired, will set you back about $90 to get it to NZ (1 years subscription) . Absilutely brilliant mag though, have been a fan and subscriber for many years . Gol - ly, Sargent Carter! That's a lot in NZ dollars even! Is there any market for slightly used and a few month's old copies? No grease stains, I promise! How about 1/2 price?	SurferJoe46 (51)
695533	2008-08-07 11:07:00	It's all OK as long as the Doc is practicing 2008+ medicine! And probably driving a 2009 BMW...	johcar (6283)
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