This is too mundane for a pitting, but I just have to say the whole “Poster A makes a joke, Poster B says ‘You bastard, you owe me a new keyboard!’ or some variant thereof” is really, really old.
We get it, it’s a clever way of saying something was funny enough to make you spew the beer/coffee/mead/Robitussin you were drinking out of your mouth and onto your keyboard, thereby ruining it forever. (by the way, how many of you have actually ruined keyboards this way? Just curious)
The problem is it was clever the first time, sometime back in the 1900’s. Maybe it was a little funny the second and third times as well. But it’s now 2007. It’s. Not. Clever. Or witty. Or anything but stupid. Just stop saying it. OK? No - don’t even think about it. Next time the urge to make a ‘new keyboard’ crack enters your mind, or your loins, or wherever the hell that urge comes from -
Well, I’ve had two laptops subjected to inadequate liquids, but in neither case was it joke-related.
One had a bottle of shampoo poured into its case by some motherless subhuman during an air trip. The local IT tech at the factory I was visiting gave me a loaner, took out the two pieces which were malfuntioning (a RAM comb and the HD) and rinsed them thoroughly with distilled water. After a week air-drying he put it back together and it worked just like new.
The one I’m now using was subjected to cocacola when my arm spasmed and I dropped a half-liter, just-opened bottle. The keys on the left end get sticky, specially on cold days, but that’s all. I was able to clean it up before any internal parts got damaged.
Just curious; what, then, would you prefer? There isn’t a ‘laughing’ emoticon. ‘LOL’ (for reasons unknown to me since I actually do laugh out loud and why TF can’t a person say so) is some sort of Dope Mortal Sin or something. But one would like to convey, sometimes, to someone that the wit the person just displayed caused one mirth.
So, pray, what deemest the TM to be worthy of passing by their exalted eyeballs?
I’ve seen YOMANK used elsewhere – looks better than the phrase, and sounds a tad naughty to boot. Could just relegate the phrase to abbreviation-hood, maybe?
If there’s anything more tiresome than someone making the same boilerplate joke or comment it’s someone complaining about it. It’s not supposed to be clever. A lot of social interaction is…social interaction. What we do to bond with each other. Now that we don’t pick lice out of each others hair.
But don’t underestimate picking lice. It’s important. It affirms our community. It’s how people deal with each other. Shall we give up shaking hands because it’s gotten old?
Maybe. Looks like a laugh to me. Surely if you caught someone in mid-laugh (a mild chortle, not necessarily an all-out belly laugh) and took a still, they may very well appear to be grinning.
If it is a grin, it’s an awfully big grin. And now that I look at him, my, what big teeth he has…
points to her not-work laptop, her wireless big keyboard and her wired big keyboard
What?
I can’t be the only one who loves buying new keyboards, MediaMarkt has a whole friggin’ section! Meters and meters! With swiss keyboard and german keyboards and french keyboards and lit-up in blue keyboards and lit-up in green keyboards and wired and wireless and ergonomic and for big hands and for small hands and…
What betenoir said.
Besides, it may be old to you, but it is new to many other people. This board is ever growing, members are leaving and even more new members join. Many of them have never seen the keyboard reference, the Opal reference, the deathray reference, etcetera. They see it, they are curious, they find out about it, they enjoy being in on the secret. I’ve been such a newbie, and the OP too. Let them enjoy it too, I say.
I like how you did this. Making every word a sentence, to emphasize your point, as if you were stopping after every word in real conversation to let the listener absorb the importance of your point, that the “YOMANK” line is played out.
I’ve never seen this before. I mean, ever.
Did you invent it?
I know that my cat owes me a new keyboard after she threw up all over it. I tried to clean it (the keyboard, not the cat) but it never worked properly again.
