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    I really would be in a dilemma making the choice:
    1 A change in underwear.
    2 The vintage malts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Helga View Post
    windows 8 actually has some cloud thingy, I can save documents on a cloud and access them from any computer, I just don't know how. Maybe I'll try and figure it out and drag my kitchen table out of the fire instead.
    It shouldn't be too difficult, and it's worth it. If Microsoft have got this working as well as Google, then Word should back up your document to the cloud every few minutes, so not only are you safe from fire, you don't even have to bother thinking about regular back ups.

    Quote Originally Posted by YesNo View Post
    The computer can go. It will be an excuse to get a new one. The data can be saved in the cloud as mal4mac recommends. That being said, it would save some time later to rescue the computer and phone.
    I'm now doing almost everything in the cloud, using Google chrome devices. So no time wasted, just get another chrome device, log in, everything is there. Some phones also allow you to save everything to the cloud. The only thing I can't do is print, still need to turn on my PC for that. But let the printer burn, it'll give me an excuse to buy a cloud printer. Plus I don't want to suffer heavy irony from the firemen if they see I chose to save my laser printer...

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    myself?!
    it may never try
    but when it does it sigh
    it is just that
    good
    it fly

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    Quote Originally Posted by cacian View Post
    myself?!
    Great! I thank you for thinking of the important first.

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    Manichaean is right about the clean underwear.

    As for writing documents, I have my "stuff" on really antiquated discs, so maybe I'd grab them., even though I'd probably never again find a PC that will accept them. Plus the box of photos of my kids, though the box is under a pile of crap and the flames would undoubtedly consume me before I could get to it.

    Maybe a fire would be a sign from God that I should clean the {expletive deleted} dump.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MANICHAEAN View Post
    I really would be in a dilemma making the choice:
    1 A change in underwear.
    2 The vintage malts.
    vintage malts I am with you all the way

    Quote Originally Posted by PeterL View Post
    Great! I thank you for thinking of the important first.
    hey that goes without saying
    it may never try
    but when it does it sigh
    it is just that
    good
    it fly

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    My Lego R2-D2.


    or my Grandma's Rosary.
    Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda


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    A couple of books which are gift from my uncle and my camera.

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    This is super lame... but in my current room I'd save the custom Magic: The Gathering deck that someone I like constructed for me. That is, somehow, the thing to which I have attributed the most sentimental value. In my room back home it would be my uncle's sketchbook that I came into possession of when he died.
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    I would go for photo albums and for my filing box which contains all my poems and essays and short stories.
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    So far there have been computers, books and various sentimental artifacts but will anyone be able to beat 'the kitchen table'?
    "L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.

    "Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.

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    People tend to grab the things for which they got attached more.

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    In the fridge, a glass bottle of Coca Cola, and of course, opening it with a bottle opener on the run out (bottle opener and cap to be dispensed on the ever-lovin' floor, which will be non-existent in short order...).

    And then outside, and a view of the spectacle... because at this point, what couldn't burn?







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    Well DuuuUUUUuuuh !!! The cellphone so I could call the fire department of course. *LOL*


    "I have thought about this often. Don't know why. I would have a real problem cause I get very attached to objects. My kitchen table is hard to get these days and I wouldn't want to lose it."

    I mean, call me nuts, but I think I'd look pretty silly sitting at the kitchen table that I saved on my front lawn while the house was burning down [8- (
    Last edited by DATo; 03-29-2014 at 10:48 PM.

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