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ORIGINAL: sprior

I was going to say we should fill The Thread up with drivel but I'm too late.

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ORIGINAL: gladiatt

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Yes, he's deadly with a bad joke at 20 paces.

this is an example of simon's joke [8|] [:D]

And a very good example it is too.

ORIGINAL: sprior

16638 actually.

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Time for home. Boing!

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Mental image of Per in viking horned helmet

A bit like this:

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: sprior

I was going to say we should fill The Thread up with drivel but I'm too late.

Umm...yeah. By about 100,000 posts.

ORIGINAL: Grollub

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ORIGINAL: anarchyintheuk

Same reply as above. [;)]

Yeah, it's quite exciting to sit here with all the little kids from their day camp screaming over their lunch, while my son skates with a coach, having a lesson. [:D]

Thank THREAD for the forums to keep my sanity! [8D]

You need THIS to keep your sanity!? [X(]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

@Warspite1: A classic example of an "INP" from one of our most prolific spambots. [:'(]

ORIGINAL: sprior

Oh dear, don't Google "Boing" and then look at the images. Not sure if they're spring loaded or pneumatic.

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

Has anyone heard (or seen) Nik lately? i am guessing he is moving from Fleattle to Houston (or its vicinity) but it has been 8 days since he's posted on the forum... [:(]

ORIGINAL: scott1964

Tech Support | Allentown, PA, USA

(I work engineering support late in the evening.)

Me: “Pennsylvania Support Center. How may I help you?”

Caller: “The cleaning crew just came through my office, and now my mouse doesn’t work. The cursor just jumps all over the screen randomly when I move it. They broke my mouse. I need a new one.”

Me: “You have a SPARCstation with an optical mouse, correct?”

Caller: “Yes, with the cool glass mouse-pad.”

(Old-school optical mice used to require special reflective mouse-pads with grids etched into their surfaces. To increase tracking resolution, the vertical and horizontal grids had slightly different spacing.)

Me: “Did the cleaning crew wipe down your desk?”

Caller: “Yes.”

Me: “Did they move your mouse-pad?”

Caller: “What does that have to do with anything?”

Me: “Did your mouse-pad get rotated? Is the long edge of the mouse-pad now parallel to the edge of your desk?”

Caller: “I really don’t see why that’s relevant. I just want a new mouse!”

Me: “The orientation of the mouse-pad matters. The–”

(The caller cuts me off and starts to yell. I realize that I can actually hear his voice coming from down the hall.)

Caller: “Listen! Just open a ticket and have someone bring me a new mouse. I don’t have time for this. I design chips, so I know what I’m talking about. I probably designed the chip in the phone you’re stuck answering all day!”

(I take off my headset, walk down the hall, and walk into his office up to his desk.)

Caller: “…so don’t try to bulls*** me with, oh. Hold on, someone is in my office.”

(I reach down, and rotate his mouse-pad 90 degrees. I move the mouse, and the cursor happily moves around the screen as expected. I walk out of his office, back down the hall, sit down at my desk, and put my headset back on.)

Caller: *silence*

Me: “Thank you for calling Pennsylvania Support Center. I trust I have resolved your case.”

Caller: *silence*

Me: “You will be receiving your ticket number via email. Thank you.”

Caller: *click*

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ORIGINAL: PaxMondo

Tithe,

Sheesh, miss a couple of days and you have to back up 3 pages!  Wow!

To ne fair, you missed nothing but squabbling.

No he didn't!

ORIGINAL: Grollub

All is well. Haven't found/seen the dental floss girl yet, though. [:'(]

Mynok, thanks for the tip concerning Patrick Rothfuss. Took a chance and bought both books before I went here. Fantastic storytelling. Have finished the first book, halfway through the second. [:)]

ORIGINAL: scott1964

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