# Thought you all should know... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 10, 2000, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-you-all-should-know/14548 "2000-03-10T04:34:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aseymayo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2000, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-you-all-should-know/14548/1 "2000-03-10T04:34:00Z")
[there could be a demon in your computer!](http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1745.html) Yow! ---
**Author:** ![Sweet\_Basil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4bbf92/32.png) [@Sweet\_Basil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweet_Basil)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2000, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-you-all-should-know/14548/2 "2000-03-10T04:38:00Z")
Er, Yeah. What’s new? From where did you think our own beloved “yer pal” Satan emerged? Sweet Basil ---
**Author:** ![Jackamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Jackamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackamus)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2000, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-you-all-should-know/14548/3 "2000-03-10T04:57:00Z")
Just as I’ve always suspected. It was either that or UFOs. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2000, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-you-all-should-know/14548/4 "2000-03-10T05:08:00Z")
“Technicians can replace the hard drive and reinstall the software, getting rid of the wicked spirit permanently.” How do you banish a spiritual menace by technical means? Is it perhaps the power of Thy Son-In-Law The Computer Tech? * * * I guess I’m just better off living with my inner tensions. —Snoopy ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2000, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-you-all-should-know/14548/5 "2000-03-10T05:13:00Z")
So that’s what my problem is…and soon I will have two computers. ---
**Author:** ![Catrandom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2000, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-you-all-should-know/14548/6 "2000-03-10T05:34:00Z")
They say in the article that computers built after 1985 have enough hard drive space to hold a demon. So that would mean your minimum system requirements for successful (if that’s the word) demonic possession would be, say, an 825 hard drive, 4 megs of RAM and maybe a 286 processor. Gee, you couldn’t even run Netscape on a system like that. I had never associated reformatting the hard drive with an exorcism, but I can see the connection. Catrandom, astonished that no one has yet made a Microsoft joke ---
**Author:** ![CalifBoomer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@CalifBoomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalifBoomer)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2000, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-you-all-should-know/14548/7 "2000-03-10T05:37:00Z")
Drat! I should have bought the extended warranty. ---
**Author:** ![Beauxeau\_IX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@Beauxeau\_IX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beauxeau_IX)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2000, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-you-all-should-know/14548/8 "2000-03-10T14:42:00Z")
But you sell your sould when you buy an extended warranty, so “yer Pal” and his minions have got you coming or going. Speaking thereof, Satan, I’ve got some free time on my hands. Are there any openings in your minions? * * * Mmm, sure…listen… Do you think I could interest you in a pair of zircon-encrusted tweezers? ---
**Author:** ![Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2000, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-you-all-should-know/14548/9 "2000-03-10T14:50:00Z")
Dammit aseymayo! My monitor just spit split pea soup all over me! ---
**Author:** ![ReservoirDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@ReservoirDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReservoirDog)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2000, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-you-all-should-know/14548/10 "2000-03-10T14:54:00Z")
I just backed-up The Dark Lord to a floppy. ---
**Author:** ![OldBroad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@OldBroad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldBroad)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2000, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-you-all-should-know/14548/11 "2000-03-10T15:14:00Z")
Wow! What a great new business opportunity! Exorcists USA! Now if I could only find that old thread that said where I could get instantly ordained as a minister… * * * * * * **SDMB’s oldest living female!** Acclaimed author of: _No Bad Brontosauri 365 Ways to Cook Sabertooth Tiger The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Wheel_ ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2000, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-you-all-should-know/14548/12 "2000-03-10T15:59:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by ReservoirDog: > > **I just backed-up The Dark Lord to a floppy.** NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO… * * * Yer pal, Satan