# My keyboard is broken
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-keyboard-is-broken/413259
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 26, 2007, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-keyboard-is-broken/413259 "2007-07-26T18:10:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@Small\_British\_Shop\_Owner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_British_Shop_Owner)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2007, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-keyboard-is-broken/413259/1 "2007-07-26T18:10:10Z")
So I won’t be makin many posts for a few days, until I ave te time to etq a replaceqment.
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### Author:  [@conurepete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conurepete)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2007, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-keyboard-is-broken/413259/2 "2007-07-27T01:12:08Z")
My keyboard is new and shiney. It has working space bars … … . . !
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### Author:  [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2007, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-keyboard-is-broken/413259/3 "2007-07-27T01:16:55Z")
Hmm…too bad you can’t just nip off to the local small British shop and get a new keyboard. 😉
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### Author:  [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2007, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-keyboard-is-broken/413259/4 "2007-07-27T02:56:59Z")
If all you did was spill coffee or something else into it, it will usually recover if you put it upside down in the dishwasher, turn off the drying cycle at the end (often called power saver dry or some such, so you have to turn it ON to turn the heat OFF, just to confuse you) and also, don’t use soap.
Let dry for 1 day.
Note - this only works for spills and extreme dirt. It won’t resurrect a keyboard that has broken contacts on the circuit board or membrane.
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### Author:  [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2007, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-keyboard-is-broken/413259/5 "2007-07-27T06:22:58Z")
My keyboard is shiny and new.
Well, matte black and new.
Best of all, it’s a buckling-spring keyboard! (You know the old clacky IBM keyboards? Like that.)
I looooove my new keyboard.
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### Author:  [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2007, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-keyboard-is-broken/413259/6 "2007-07-27T07:00:05Z")
Post away! We’ll just pretend you’re a teenager.
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### Author:  [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2007, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-keyboard-is-broken/413259/7 "2007-07-27T08:56:49Z")
It was lucky that you managed to get the thread title perfectly typed, then. :dubious:
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### Author:  [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2007, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-keyboard-is-broken/413259/8 "2007-07-27T14:06:35Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra]
It was lucky that you managed to get the thread title perfectly typed, then. :dubious:
[/QUOTE]
I once typed an entire (long) post by cutting and pasting. Sometimes whole words, sometimes letters. God, did that take forever! And two minutes after I posted, the damn thread was closed!
(And now I learn there’s some sort of character map you can somehow access and just click on the “keyboard” on your screen? Still sounds tedious, but better than what I did!)
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### Author:  [@Small\_British\_Shop\_Owner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_British_Shop_Owner)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2007, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-keyboard-is-broken/413259/9 "2007-07-27T15:03:29Z")
Fixed now (well, I bought a new keyboard… it’s wireless too :D)
**engineer\_comp\_geek** , I did try that, in fact my keyboard wasn’t working at all until I did that, but g and h wouldn’t work at all, and q would only appear after other letters, not by pressing it. And there were other problems with the ctrl, alt, etc keys.
Which is why I had no trouble typing the title. I _was_ able to make a g or h by alt+104 (in fact I needed to do this to logon!), but it ain’t natural…
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### Author:  [@The\_Viking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Viking)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2007, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-keyboard-is-broken/413259/10 "2007-07-27T16:12:21Z")
[QUOTE=Hunter Hawk]
My keyboard is shiny and new.
Well, matte black and new.
Best of all, it’s a buckling-spring keyboard! (You know the old clacky IBM keyboards? Like that.)
I looooove my new keyboard.
[/QUOTE]
_click_ _click_ _click_ _click_ _click_
Driven nuts yet?
[QUOTE=Snooooopy]
Post away! We’ll just pretend you’re a teenager.
[/QUOTE]
Thank you sir, for making me smile at a stressedful end of the day! its friday and im not in a party mood! \>.\<
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2007, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-keyboard-is-broken/413259/11 "2007-07-27T18:22:28Z")
[QUOTE=Hunter Hawk]
My keyboard is shiny and new.
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My name is Igor
I got a keyboard
I got a keyboard, shiny and new!
I’m gonna type me all kinds of sparkling prose
That’s what I’m gonna do!
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### Author:  [@Pithy\_Moniker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pithy_Moniker)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2007, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-keyboard-is-broken/413259/12 "2007-07-27T20:19:48Z")
I was going to suggest using your mouse to copy and paste individual letters\words from random Wikipedia articles to compose your posts.
But if you want to go out and buy a new keyboard, I guess that works too.
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2007, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-keyboard-is-broken/413259/13 "2007-07-27T20:31:16Z")
[QUOTE=Pithy Moniker]
I was going to suggest using your mouse to copy and paste individual letters\words from random Wikipedia articles to compose your posts.
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Or from all over the Net, giving it a ransom note effect.