On my computer at work, I have the scrolling text screensaver turned on, and recently I set it to display the words “You are looking at a computer screen.”
This made me wonder if anyone else has tried to come up with clever things to say with their text screensaver.
Not that I’m saying mine is necessarily clever, but…well…you get the idea.
I used to have “Speak friend, and enter” written in Feanorean Tengwar in whatever language it originally was in.
Codename: Microsoft Whistler Server Build 3505
For testing purposes only.
I’ve never changed it.
This easter egg worked in Windows NT 3.51, don’t know if it works anymore or not: You use the 3D Text and enter the text “beer” and what is displayed is all the different brands of beer. “dog” worked too, as well as a few others that I don’t remember.
“Quit staring at my computer!” But it sucks, cuz I live alone. And the cat can’t read.
My work computer alternates between these two quotes:
"I’m the firm believer in the philosophy of a ruling class,especially since I rule…Randal Graves, Clerks
Extreme is not a mood-it’s a lifestyle…Jeff Hardy
I think “Mountain” works as well, and with all the 3dtext screen savers
I had “Lacroix, Sweetie” dancing on my screen for the longest time.
It’s a quote from Eddie on “Absolutely Fabulous”.
My screensaver dosn’t have text, I’m sorry 
But it does have pictures of High-Priced BMWs!:eek:
I have 2 PC’s next to each other. One screen saver says, “Narf!”, the other, “Zoink!”. When both are showing their desktops, they both have scenes from “Pinky and the Brain”.
Mine’s actually kinda boring. It says “Amber will be back soon…” because people are always looking for me when I’m not at my cube…
Mine says DOOFUS in those big rainbow striped letters.
My kids have discovered the joys of tinkering with the Scrolling Message, so I never know from one minute to the next (literally) what my screen saver is going to show me. Tonight it says:
“Pikachu O _/_/_/_/\ s JOO!! … (long pause)… Pika-Power ///_/_/_/_/_/–X … (long pause) … _/_/_/_/\ X”
I thought Bonzo was taking an unusually long time to Shut Down the computer last night.
I no longer have text, but at one time I did. It read “If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much room!”
Mine currently says “All hail Crispy, Supreme Ruler of the Universe!”
mine at work didn’t scroll but it was a 30 or so character line of text that you could type in, then it would tumble around irratically and in and out of the frame. Set on high, it was so fast it was illegible, and almost made you ill.
So it said “I’m gonna boot!” and tumbled around (cute to an idle computer…)
“You are looking at a computer screen.” Self-referential. I like that. Reminds me of my friend Pat who once had a labelmaker that was labeled with a label that read “labelmaker”.
My screensaver is either a blankscreen, or, when nobody else is around, a random sequence of pictures from my harddrive. Yes, porn. hehe 