Posted on 10/24/2005 7:08:27 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Today's reports are pretty funny......no, no, no we weren't trying to get the reporters. Ha!!! And you were so right about not wanting to take out their best allies in the war against our military.
Well, EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.......
Great video of the Skycutter! LOL! Good one, LJ.
cal.....#1150!!
Skycutter is an oldie I drag out once in a while. I never get tired of it.
I love patriotic woo hoo's!
I often share this story. I credit it to Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller because he used to write the back page of a computer magazine, but i am sure it was another back page writer. I read it about ten years ago and I tend to alter it only because I can't remember it word for word:
It was the last day of my working as a telephone support specialist for Toshiba. I didn't really care and would not have shown up had my severance pay not been threatened.
Near the end of the shift, an irate customer happened to get me. Since I couldn't care less, I decided to have fun on what was to be my last tech call for Toshiba.
After getting her contact information, which was hard because she was so frustrated, she explained that her new mouse wasn't working with Toshiba laptop and even threatened to take the thing back to Japan and shove it up Mr. Toshiba's rectum. I edged her a little more.
She gave me the model of the laptop and the mouse. She explained that the mouse ball was too high to actually roll. Rather than giving this witch the truth, which is that a piece of cardboard is put inside the ball chamber to prevent the ball from moving during shipping and damaging internal parts, I told her it needed a long period of centrafugal force to dislodge it.
"Ma'am, are you on a cordless phone?"
"Yes."
"Well, good. You see, you need to swing the mouse around for several minutes to dislodge it from its shipping position."
It took some convincing, but she agreed and decided due to her cramped office that it would be better if she swung it outside. SO, she is outside, on a cordless phone, swinging a mouse over her head on her lawn.
"Ma'am, this is model, XYQ123. It has a 3D controller. Through an sincere exchange, I convinced her she needed to hop up and down while swinging to activate it.
While doing this, I explained this also is voice activated and that she needed yell loudly to activate it. Again it took convincing, but she began yelling.
"How long do I need to do this?"
"Let me check the manual. Page 35...it says here 15 minutes more."
"Oh, OK." So there she was, yelling, jumping, and swinging.
During that time, I called the local police department to report that the lady had gone insane because her computer crashed and was on her front yard screaming like a lunatic.
I listened and about ten minutes later, I heard the cops trying to calm her down.
I gathered my coat and left Toshiba.
LOL!!!!!
Thanks!
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