Ever have a dialogue exchange begging for a home?

This has been bouncing through my head for two years or more. Don't know who says it, or what the circumstances are. Someday I may be able to use it, or maybe not. Don't rightly know.

"How'd you get away from that thing?"

"I hit it in the head with a hubcap and just ran."

"Hubcap? That wouldn't even slow it down."

"Well, the hubcap kinda had an Oldsmobile attached to it at the time..."

At the moment, an orphaned bit of dialogue, I guess. Or maybe I could throw it out as a challenge: any fandom, any circumstance, just has to use the hubcap joke somewhere.

Naaah. Probably not.

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Grr.

This may be something people might want to take note of:

Apparently, the AOL Instant Messenger system is now causing the Trillian IM program to crash.

Both my laptop and my desktop computer have run into the same problem with Trillian and AIM - AIM has this nasty habit of not wanting people to connect using Trillian, and spent the better part of a year frelling up their connection system specifically to break Trillian.

Now it looks like they've done it again. Grr. Arrgh...

And to anyone I recommended Trillian to - I'm sorry that this happened. Not sorry that I recommended Trillian, natch, but sorry that you got caught in that squabble...

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edit:

Maybe spoke too soon. Could be a coming-and-going thing, or maybe just some sort of random glitch.

Slightly better mood at any rate. More later.

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Zowie.

Another mark in favor of the programmers at Trillian.

The multi-purpose IM client got hit with a bug, and they came out with a fix. Inside six hours.

I can't recommend that program enough - takes up less space than AIM, no ad-ware, no intrusiveness, and it'll work across five different types of chat (AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, IRC), with as many identities as you can think of.

Two variants - Trillian "Pro" is $25, with lots of features I don't know about. The one I use is the free one, Trillian v0.74 - no charge. :)

Oh, anyone who needs that patch to get into AIM through Trillian, it's here.

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