# Make love and shut down your computer

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-love-and-shut-down-your-computer/619715>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 23, 2012, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-love-and-shut-down-your-computer/619715 "2012-04-23T17:45:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2012, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-love-and-shut-down-your-computer/619715/1 "2012-04-23T17:45:53Z")

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The other day, I had downloaded a song called “Let’s make love and listen to Death from Above.”

A few hours later, I brought in my MP3 player from the car, plugged it in, and went to look for the song by typing the phrase “make love” into the search box.

The computer shut down.

My friend tried it and it did the same thing to hers.  
Apparently it must be exactly the same shortcut as some other phrase.

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**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2012, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-love-and-shut-down-your-computer/619715/2 "2012-04-23T20:20:22Z")

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If I shut down my computer, I’d have no one to make love _to._

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**Author:** ![Telperion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telperion/32/509_2.png) [@Telperion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperion)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2012, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-love-and-shut-down-your-computer/619715/3 "2012-04-23T21:35:45Z")

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Computer: Hell no, I’m not doing _that_. [Initiate self-destruct sequence.]

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**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2012, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-love-and-shut-down-your-computer/619715/4 "2012-04-23T22:12:07Z")

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> [@Telperion](#):
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> Computer: Hell no, I’m not doing _that_. [Initiate self-destruct sequence.]

“Open the pod bay door HAL, and lube up!”

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**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-love-and-shut-down-your-computer/619715/5 "2012-04-24T15:57:33Z")

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Now I’m wondering what certain other phrases would make it do.

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**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-love-and-shut-down-your-computer/619715/6 "2012-04-24T17:47:50Z")

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When I was doing C programs and mk(1) (pronounced make) scripts, I should have called one love

mk love

As for the OP, you really shouldn’t use the search engine from [necrophiliac.com](http://necrophiliac.com)