Geek humor

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Okay, Geek take on Urban Legends:

I know this guy whose neighbor, a young man, was home recovering from having been served a rat in his bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken. So anyway, one day he went to sleep; when he awoke he was in his bathtub; it was full of ice; and he was sore all over. When he got out of the tub, he realized that HIS KIDNEYS HAD BEEN STOLEN and he saw a note on his mirror that said, "Call 911!" But he was afraid to use his phone because it was connected to his computer, and there was a virus on his computer that would destroy his hard drive if he opened an e-mail entitled, "Join the crew!"

He knew it wasn't a hoax because he himself was a computer programmer who was working on software to save us from Armageddon when Year 2000 rolls around. His program will prevent a global disaster in which all the computers get together and distribute the $600 Neiman Marcus cookie recipe under the leadership of Bill Gates. (It's true-I read it all last week in a mass e-mail from Bill Gates HIMSELF, who was also promising me a free Disney World vacation and $5,000, if I would forward the e-mail to everyone I know.)

The poor man then tried to call 911 from a pay phone to report his missing kidneys, but reaching into the coin-return slot he got jabbed with an HIV- infected needle around which was wrapped a note that said "Welcome to the world of AIDS."

Luckily he was only a few blocks from the hospital--the one, actually, where that little boy who is dying of cancer is--the one whose last wish is for everyone in the world to send him an e-mail, and the American Cancer Society has agreed to pay him a nickel for every e-mail he receives. I sent him two e- mails and one of them was a bunch of X's and O's in the shape of an angel (If you get it and forward it to twenty people, you will have good luck; to ten people, you will only have ok luck, and to less than ten people, you will have BAD LUCK FOR SEVEN YEARS.)

So anyway the poor guy tried to drive himself to the hospital, but on the way he noticed another car driving along without his lights on. To be helpful, he flashed his lights at him and was promptly shot as part of a gang initiation.

And it's a little-known fact that the Y1K problem caused the Dark Ages.

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Geek Humor Metric conversions:

1 million microphones = 1 megaphone
2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds
10 cards = 1 decacards
1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin
10 rations = 1 decoration
100 rations = 1 C-ration
10 millipedes = 1 centipede
3 1/3 tridents = 1 decadent
2 monograms = 1 diagram
8 nickels = 2 paradigms
2 wharves = 1 paradox

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Some olde Geeke Acronyms:

* PCMCIA => People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
* ISDN => It Still Does Nothing
* APPLE => Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity
* IBM => I Blame Microsoft
* DEC => Do Expect Cuts
* CA => Constant Acquisitions
* CD-ROM => Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months
* OS/2 => Obsolete Soon, Too.
* SCSI => System Can't See It
* DOS => Defunct Operating System
* BASIC => Bill's Attempt to Seize Industry Control
* WWW => World Wide Wait