Re: Originality and screensavers.

Posted by Matches on October 29, 1999 at 23:06:02:

In Reply to: Originality and screensavers. posted by Tigs. on October 29, 1999 at 20:08:48:

I've changed the marquee quite a bit...it takes a drastic mood to change the text, and then it usually stays up there for a few months....

When I was going through a bad time last March or so, it read:

"Goodbye cruel world, I'm leaving you today. Goodbye. Goodbye Goodbye.
Goodbye cruel world, there's nothing you can do to make me change my mind, goodbye"

If Cory's a true Floydian, he'll know what that's about.

I got tired of that. It was black writing on a grey (gray?) background. Now its a purple background with yellow letters that say:

"Her majesty's a pretty nice girl but she doesn't have a lot to say. Her majesty's a pretty nice girl and she changed from day to day. I want to tell her I love her a lot, but I gotta get a belly full of wine..."

If it had more room I would have finished the line off with: "Her majesty's a pretty nice girl, someday I'm gonna make her mine."

But as for you question about cliches....I've never seen anyone else with that phrase on their screensaver, though when you think of the amount of phrases you could possibly have, the law of averages says you probably won't find the same one on two different machines... "Wake up and smell the coffee." Around my parts, I've heard "Wake up and smell the roses" more often, and that's kind of cliche. "Smell the coffee" kind of makes more sense, though, doesn't it?

Follow Ups:

• Please clarify something. Tigs. 16:55:28 10/30/99 (4)
  • Re: Please clarify something. Karen 17:19:08 10/30/99 (3)
    • Ok I'm just mixed up... Matches 21:15:19 10/30/99 (2)
      • I'd love to wake up and smell roses one morning... it's a lovely thought, Matches. (NT) Karen 21:49:57 10/30/99 (1)
        • I'd still prefer waking up to a coffee - the roses can wait! NT Tigs. 08:34:57 10/31/99 (0)

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