Lost: Zip, if found , please call...

[sirhugs]

In amongst the lost cat ads on the local trading site, if this enigmatic ad.

What sort of gal answers? what does she do to help the guy find his lost zip?

 

[Carnevil9]

"Hello? I found your lost zip at the coffee shop."

"Thank you! I'm glad you called. Ummm.... You didn't browse the contents, did you?"

"Yes, I did..."

"Oh..."

"Can I come right over?"

 

[sirhugs]

"Hello? I found your lost zip at the coffee shop."

"Thank you! I'm glad you called. Ummm.... You didn't browse the contents, did you?"

"Yes, I did..."

"Oh..."

"Can I come right over?"

I wasn't thinking zip drive, but that has potential!

 

[Carnevil9]

I wasn't thinking zip drive, but that has potential!

Then what were you talking about?

 

[sirhugs]

Then what were you talking about?

zip as in energy, enthusiasm

 

[Carnevil9]

Ah. I guess I was being too literal. But it could work either way, I suppose.

Do they still have "zip drives," or are they all "flash drives" now? Yes, I am a fossil.

 

[snoopercharmbrights]

... Do they still have "zip drives," or are they all "flash drives" now? Yes, I am a fossil.

Aren't they called "tape drives"?

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/1401/tape.jpg

 

[Carnevil9]

Snooper, I love you. You are probably the only poster on this board who is older even that moi.

 

[sirhugs]

Snooper, I love you. You are probably the only poster on this board who is older even that moi.

54 here... I remember punch cards.

 

[Carnevil9]

I used punch cards in college, in my programming class. We wrote our programs in Fortran, a lost language, much like Latin or Aramaic.

SH - you've got me beat by one year! I guess I'm only the THIRD oldest poster.

 

[nakdsub]

A young lady reads the ad...

It strikes her funny because her nickname is, "Zap." She would normally never respond to an ad like this but she feels maybe some karma at work here.

She writes back, "put some Zap in your Zip." Of course when he reads it he is not aware of the significance yet put he is intrigued.