# Can you sleep with Randy Smith? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 7, 2024, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-sleep-with-randy-smith/1001215 "2024-05-07T04:38:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2024, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-sleep-with-randy-smith/1001215/1 "2024-05-07T04:38:40Z")
People are using an old video tutorial for an early version of Word for Mac as a sleep aid. I find it an interesting windows into history, though, from parts I’ve watched, which includes discussion of the cripling limitations on fonts at the time. (That’s about 3 years before my first version of Word for Windows.) > **['Boring' 1989 computer tutorial becomes sleep aid hit 30 years on](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13388461/boring-video-microsoft-word-randy-smith-youtube.html)** > > Ormond Beach retiree Randy Smith was working for Florida Marketing International when he recorded the two-hour tutorial about an early version of Microsoft Word in 1989. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2024, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-sleep-with-randy-smith/1001215/2 "2024-05-07T04:51:22Z")
Your link says someone called that the most boring video of all time. Not even close! The most boring video of all time is the US Navy’s Emergency Escape Breathing Device (EEBD) training video from the 1980s. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2024, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-sleep-with-randy-smith/1001215/3 "2024-05-07T05:46:25Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > The most boring video of all time is the US Navy’s Emergency Escape Breathing Device (EEBD) training video from the 1980s. I won’t mention the gentleman’s name who produced them, but the similarly-vintaged zombie-like monotone SCBA training classes (on scratchy videotape) I was forced to endure were like Chinese water torture. Universally detested as cruel and unusual punishment. Made even worse as one supervisor I had, given a manifesto to hold weekly safety meetings/presentations, kept running out of ideas to talk about and brought them out every few months. After about the third time in a calendar year my crew finally rebelled and said if he ever started playing one of fucking things again we would burn them in a barrel and possibly him along with them 🙂. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2024, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-sleep-with-randy-smith/1001215/4 "2024-05-07T05:51:27Z")
They can’t all be rollicking classics like _Yoke is No Joke_ ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2024, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-sleep-with-randy-smith/1001215/5 "2024-05-07T11:24:55Z")
Here’s a Youtube link in case the ad-blocker is being stupid: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk71bPz5VLo&t=3534s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk71bPz5VLo&t=3534s) But, ugh, two spaces after a period? That’s not exactly competent use of a word processor. But everything else is masterful. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2024, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-sleep-with-randy-smith/1001215/6 "2024-05-07T15:34:15Z")
The subject matter is totally outdated and boring, but Randy isn’t. He’s not ASMR. He’s professional and has a pleasant voice. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2024, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-sleep-with-randy-smith/1001215/7 "2024-05-07T15:40:02Z")
I _still_ do two spaces. It’s how I was taught, and my muscle memory still reigns supreme on that front.