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I like to throw cress seeds into unattended keyboards

Classic joke at university was to sprinkle cress seeds on the carpet of someone's room and water it with a fine mist from a plant sprayer. In the morning the inhabitant would wake up to a neat lawn that had appeared overnight by magic.

OK, now I'm having flashbacks of astronomy Macintosh lab, late at night, too much homework (early 90's).

Fell asleep in front of keyboard, woke up to "Can of Worms" screensaver (never seen it before), had a heck of a start, wondering what the sound was, and what all those things were crawling all over the screen???

Can they really grow that fast?

Cress is a word I haven't heard in decades. Got to get some cress!

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