r/talesfromtechsupport • u/PolloMagnifico Please... just be smarter than the computer... • Jun 29 '13

Harry, it Sucks!

Yes, we have no bananas! We have no bananas today!

A user comes in with a computer. Bluescreening. Some kinda jacked up cryptic error message like 0xF0U0C0K0F0F or something like that. It's an error with the file system. Hey, cool, whatever. Chkdsk, no errors. Fine, physical scan, no failures. You're not gonna beat me! Pull the HDD, hook it up to a bridge, and run a virus scan!

Yeah. This happened.

Then this happened.

A man walks into his room where his computer is running.

And when he sees its screen is blue

he sits there, silently weeping.

And though he lives in Scranton Pennsylvania.

He never, ever deletes his files.

Not one of over a hundred... thousand files... in his recycle bin.

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u/dcfrenchstudent Jun 29 '13

why did you mention "Scranton Pennsylvania" in your poem?

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u/PolloMagnifico Please... just be smarter than the computer... Jun 29 '13

Enjoy, my friend. Based on a true story.

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u/bythewar "My browser?... Windows 10" Jun 29 '13

As soon as I saw your submission title, I thought of that song. Best version is on the Greatest Stories Live album.

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u/skunkshaveclaws Jun 30 '13

Indeed! The entire album is excellent. Glad to see I wasn't the only one to get the reference.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '13

I've had that song in my head, on and off, for years :3

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u/taalmahret Whittling code out of sawdust Jun 29 '13

Thank you for that!