Either deaf or dumb. Possibly both.

[captainsblog]

I've had "true" Windows computers (i.e., far closer copies of Macs than those early-day Win 3.x things that were really just overlays for DOS) for more than a dozen years.

All of them have had Recycle Bins.

I've used them- in 95, 98, NT and XP. Sometimes I get rid of stuff real quick (holding down the shift key while deleting bypasses the bin), but I've probably emptied mine at least once a month since, like, forever.

Just now, I deleted some zip files- not the contents, but those annoying quasi-folders still left behind even after you've extracted them- and didn't hold down the shift key sufficiently, so they went to the bin.

So I went, just now, to get rid of them and their disk-hogging space.

And heard, for the first time in my life, the system sound that Windows makes when you do so. You know, the crumply paper thing.

Granted, I usually have my sounds off. I'd turned them on last night, after we watched Elizabeth: the Golden Age, because I wanted to revisit the alternate historical interpretation of The Death of Mary Queen of Scots:

I wonder what else I've been missing.

Comments

[doubtful-salmon.livejournal.com]

This is one of my favorite Monty Python sketches. "Intercourse the penguin!" It's one of the only Monty Python sketches where you can actually see them trying not to laugh.

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

Same here. My wife and I toss off that very line at least once a week, if not more. The YouTube was a bit confusing, though, since it's the ever-so-slightly different version of the sketch on Another Monty Python Recordthat I've got burned into my brain.

[doubtful-salmon.livejournal.com]

I always watched the shows more than I listened to the albums, so I rarely have that problem, although I have listened to the Bruces sketch so often that way I occasionally get confused when I actually watch it.

[headbanger118.livejournal.com]

I loved the crumpled up sound, but the BEST sound was the sound Yahoo Mail used to make when you got email: it was a gunshot. Literally you were shot with mail. Now it's an annoying ding.