Stupid CoWorkers

One evening while walking through the school hallways, a friend was attempting to impress me with this knowledge of computers.


Him: "I can use HTML coding to do my homework for me. That way I don't have to waste time on it."

A friend of mine was typing a letter up in Notepad and called me saying that the letters were upside down. I've heard a few things in my time but never heard of upside down letters. So I went over and had a look. Everything looked fine, but she said no, the L's are upside down. It still took a minute to figure out what she meant. But, yeah, a lower case L looks like an upside down upper case L.

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Sometime in the late 1990s, I had a friend who was an Amiga fanatic and would spend hours telling us how they were the most powerful, versatile, flawless machines ever conceived by man.

I went with him when he bought his new A-4000 and some 3D modelling software. He told us how it will render true 3D in almost real time. I shrugged, watched him set the thing up, and load the software. He fed the thing a wireframe and gave it some textures and background elements. Six days later, the computer finished rendering the first frame.

He explained later that he discovered he only had 2 megs of RAM and had ordered 4. "Isn't that still kind of pathetic?" I asked. "My girlfriend's HP has 16."

He said, "Well, Amigas use everything so much more efficiently, so it compares to a PC with gigabytes of RAM. It's enough to hack your IBM through the power outlet."

I gave up all sense of restraint and must have laughed for 20 minutes.


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Yesterday my friend asked why is an electrical outlet called an outlet when you plug things into it? Shouldn't it be called an inlet.

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I know someone who lives right down the street. One day she was walking along and struck up a conversation with my Mom. I had nothing to do and was overhearing it. The topic went to dogs. Then she said, "You know, there is this really strange thing that happens every time I drive to school. I pass this street and there is this dead dog. And once I get out of school and pass the street again, someone moved the dog. It's really weird! Every day someone moves this dead dog back and forth!" So, one day, we drove down that street to get to the supermarket, and remembering that conversation looked down the street and saw the dog laying there. The dog wasn't dead, it was sleeping!

My friend Rachel announced she was going to bleach her hair in the summer. My friend Tracey asked, "What color?"

We were listening to a story about my friend's next door neighbor who went to Germany and had a one night stand with a German bloke. When her husband found out they divorced. Tracey suddenly shouted "Oh! Just think! The baby will come out speaking German!"

My new roommate drove the 25 miles to his parents' house every weekend to pick up his mail. I asked him why he didn't just change his address so he wouldn't have to make the drive all the time. He said, "because then, my parents' mail will come here!" So, I never explained it to this guy (26 years old), I just let him make the drive for the next year. Porn catalogs, everything, went straight to his parents'.

I was at sleep away camp and there was a really bad storm. Eventually we lost power and most of my friends went scrambling for our flashlights. My best friend at camp (sadly), shouted, "Oh no! Since we don't have electricity our flashlights won't work!" It took awhile, but we managed to explain to her that flashlights run on batteries. I'm still not sure she gets it, but someday she'll understand.