July 20 - 24, 2009
My old boss was a technical bloke.
Well, at least that’s the game that he spoke.
With his new box he tried
His old modem. It died.
It got hot and released magic smoke.
Bonus rhyme:
To the readers who think I’m the bomb:
Next week, I’m in New York to see Mom.
If you’re looking for rhymes,
You can waste lots of time
Surfing O2BIrish.com
Said the client, “I think it’s too weird.
At 9:30 the share’s disappeared.
It’s a nuisance infernal.”
Could building a kernel
Repair it? Into it, I peered.
Then I called up the other location
And related the sharing frustration.
“We reboot it, you know,
At 9:30 or so,”
She replied. ‘Twas a huge revelation!
For a year or so I was dismayed,
But at last a solution was made.
It can be such a grind,
But I really don’t mind
Just as long as I always get paid.
The young engineer threw quite a fit,
Since his laptop’s dead. He won’t admit
That the thing won’t turn on
Since it fell in the john.
I’m just glad it’s not covered in … well… how can I get this past the spam filter… hmmm… you know what I mean.
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It is always interesting when I post an anti-limerick.
Readers will think that I really want to say, in this case,
"shit", and try to complete the rhyme for me. I had several
try to do that today. One however, did what I was sort of looking for - quoting the chorus to the old
Benny Bell song "Shaving Cream." I remember as a high schooler
listening to my radio every Sunday night for the Dr. Demento show, where
"Shaving Cream" would routinely make the top of the
countdown.
It seems a lot of other Tank readers remember the good Doctor too -
one said he spent $100 for music he ordered from the drdemento.com web
site because of my mention and link to the Wikipedia page, which linked
to his web site. (He also wanted me to reimburse him too...)
One of my favorite artists today is "Weird Al" Yankovic.
Dr. Demento would play tapes Al sent in from time to time, and really
gave him his start. You can see Dr. Demento in several of his videos (I
Lost on Jeopardy, Headline News for example) along with the movie UHF in
the audience of Stanley Spadowski's Clubhouse.
Dr. Demento, we remember you fondly! |
When the printer was jammed up one day,
I detected a fragrant bouquet.
To get rid of a squeak,
Their technique was unique:
They used lotion that’s made by Olay.
Bonus rhyme:
Through these stories of users that blundered,
There’s a question that some may have wondered.
There’s a sense of elation:
It’s my estimation
This entry is lim’rick two hundred!
In a town where the heat is so cruel,
Your own Frigidaire is quite a tool.
When a PC gets froze,
In the fridge the thing goes,
It’s unfrozen by making it cool.