The Off Topic Thread

gkaytaz · Post by **gkaytaz** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 9:00 pm

Once upon a midnight dreary,
Fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high
and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bedsheets,
Still I sat here doing spreadsheets:
Having reached the bottom line,
I took a floppy from the drawer.

Typing with a steady hand,
I then invoked the "save" command
But got instead a reprimand:
It read, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"
Was this some occult illusion?
Some maniacal type intrusion?
These were choices Solomon himself,
Had never faced before.

Carefully I weighed my options...
These three seemed to be the top ones.
Clearly I must now adopt one;
choose: Abort, Retry, Ignore?
With my fingers pale and trembling
Slowly toward the keyboard bending,
Longing for a happy ending,
Hoping all would be restored

Praying for some guarantee,
Finally I pressed a key.
But what on the screen did I see?
Again "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"
I tried to catch the chips off guard -
I pressed again, but twice as hard,
But luck was just not on the cards,
I saw what I had seen before.

Now I typed in desperation
Trying random combinations.
Still there came the incantation
"Abort, Retry, Ignore."
There I sat, distraught, exhausted,
By my own machine accosted
Getting up, I turned away
And paced across the office floor.

And then I saw an awful sight
A bold and blinding flash of light
A lightening bolt that cut the night,
And shook me to my very core.
The PC screen collapsed and died.
"OH NO! MY DATABASE!" I cried.
I heard a distant voice reply,
"You'll see your spreadsheets...nevermore!"

To this day I do not know
The place to which our data goes.
Perhaps it goes to heaven,
Where the angels have it stored.
But as for Productivity, well,
I fear this has gone straight to Hell.
And that's the tale I have to tell -
Your choice: Abort, Retry, Ignore.

Snowy · Post by **Snowy** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 9:10 pm

gkaytaz wrote:Once upon a midnight dreary,
Fingers cramped and vision bleary,

Qouth the raven "Nevermore"

gkaytaz · Post by **gkaytaz** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 9:19 pm

Snowy wrote:
gkaytaz wrote:Once upon a midnight dreary,
Fingers cramped and vision bleary,
Qouth the raven "Nevermore"

Once upon a midnight dreary quoth the Raven, "The vodka is good but the meat is rotten."

Snowy · Post by **Snowy** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 9:23 pm

gkaytaz wrote:
Snowy wrote:
gkaytaz wrote:Once upon a midnight dreary,
Fingers cramped and vision bleary,
Qouth the raven "Nevermore"
Once upon a midnight dreary quoth the Raven, "The vodka is good but the meat is rotten."

Rotten as in Denmark?

gkaytaz · Post by **gkaytaz** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 9:32 pm

Snowy wrote:
gkaytaz wrote:
Snowy wrote:
Qouth the raven "Nevermore"
Once upon a midnight dreary quoth the Raven, "The vodka is good but the meat is rotten."
Rotten as in Denmark?

Julian Mayo · Post by **Julian Mayo** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 10:14 pm

Snowy wrote:
Julian Mayo wrote:
JayVee wrote:Don't you wish when life is bad
and things just don't compute,
That all we really had to do
was stop and hit reboot?

Things would all turn out ok,
life could be so sweet
If we had those special keys
Ctrl, Alt, and Delete

Your boss is mad, your bills not paid,
your husband, well he's just mute
Just stop and hit those wonderful keys
that make it all reboot

You'd like to have another job
but you fear living in the street?
You solve it all and start a new,
Ctrl, Alt, and Delete

............................ ............................................sigh....................
Live for today, for tomorrow may Never come.
For every evil under the sun,
there is an answer,
or there be none.
If there is one, try to find it.
If there be none, never mind it.
OMG!

YOU RANG?

jacfan · Post by **jacfan** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 10:19 pm

Julian Mayo wrote:
gkaytaz wrote:
Julian Mayo wrote: Sato takes care of most of the other cars, Kubica wins the title
Your faith in Sato is quite admirable.
He is a disciple of the "Divine Wind"......one of their maxims is......"engage the enemy at close quarters".

Hey my significant other is a disciple of the Divine Wind too.....

jacfan · Post by **jacfan** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 10:21 pm

No... I think that was Snowy...

Julian Mayo · Post by **Julian Mayo** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 10:36 pm

jacfan wrote:
Julian Mayo wrote:
gkaytaz wrote:
Your faith in Sato is quite admirable.
He is a disciple of the "Divine Wind"......one of their maxims is......"engage the enemy at close quarters".
Hey my significant other is a disciple of the Divine Wind too.....

That is called dutch ovens M'Dear

Julian Mayo · Post by **Julian Mayo** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 10:37 pm

jacfan wrote:No... I think that was Snowy...

BUGGA

jacfan · Post by **jacfan** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 10:37 pm

Yes and I have had my head in it more often than I could ever want.

Julian Mayo · Post by **Julian Mayo** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 10:39 pm

HEY ED ! HOW COME I GET 5 EMAIL ALERTS FOR THIS THREAD

Julian Mayo · Post by **Julian Mayo** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 10:46 pm

jacfan wrote:Yes and I have had my head in it more often than I could ever want.

My blanky has a hole in it specially designed so company is least offended

jacfan · Post by **jacfan** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 10:49 pm

Nice!!!

Julian Mayo · Post by **Julian Mayo** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:00 pm

jacfan wrote:Nice!!!

Considerate, I am. Care to share my fish?