# Bad middle-of-night performance now

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-middle-of-night-performance-now/74887>\
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**Created:** [August 4, 2001, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-middle-of-night-performance-now/74887 "2001-08-04T04:27:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Primaflora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Primaflora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Primaflora)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2001, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-middle-of-night-performance-now/74887/21 "2001-08-05T10:46:30Z")

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Thanks Jerry! It’s flying tonight :). You done good mate, them gnomes are real happy in that computer now

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2001, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-middle-of-night-performance-now/74887/22 "2001-08-05T17:36:52Z")

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Quoth the inestimable **jdavis** :

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> That being the case I’m even open to the possibility that a small tribe of garden gnomes have taken up residence in the server and are using it either to contact alien life forms or perform arcane rituals in the early morning hours.😉 If so, I’ll attempt to negotiate with them…

My mom insists that computers really run by virtue of a little Japanese leprechaun that lives inside each one. When the technician shows up to fix something, all he’s really doing is slipping the little guy some sushi and soda bread.

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2001, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-middle-of-night-performance-now/74887/23 "2001-08-05T17:43:10Z")

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Do Japanese leprechauns have a yen for green saki?

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