When I was at school some girls would mention in history class that Nightingale was an inspirational role model.

At the time I thought that was rather weak when one could pick Amelia Earhart or someone like that … had I known this back then, I would have chosen her too …

I was specifically making a wordplay joke about the word “picking” … never mind.

If you need to clear your nose out, then when other people aren’t watching you might well be picking …

Yes, this is how I feel. I would like to be tucked in for my nap now please, dearie

Me too! Slackware 1.0 installed by floppy disk … so much faff the first time to get X to load, and then the only thing I could do with it was to run xeyes.

Emacs was 5 floppies, the C compiler was about 11.