| Windows 7: When men retire - be very afraid |
05 Nov 2011
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| | Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-Bit 446 posts Peterborough, England |
When men retire - be very afraid After I retired, my wife insisted that I accompany her on her trips to Target.
Unfortunately, like most men, I found shopping boring and preferred to get in and get out.
Equally unfortunate, my wife is like most women - she loves to browse, so I had to learn to while away my time.
Yesterday my dear wife received the following letter from the local Target:
"Dear Mrs. Harris,
Over the past six months, your husband has caused quite a commotion in our store.
We cannot tolerate this behavior and have been forced to ban both of you from the store.
Our complaints against your husband, Mr. Harris, are listed below and are documented by our video surveillance cameras:
1. June 15: He took 24 boxes of condoms and randomly put them in other people's carts when they weren't looking.
2. July 2: Set all the alarm clocks in Housewares to go off at 5-minute intervals.
3. July 7: He made a trail of tomato juice on the floor leading to the women's restroom.
4. July 19: Walked up to an employee and told her in an official voice, 'Code 3 in Housewares. Get on it right away'. This caused the employee to leave her assigned station and receive a reprimand from her Supervisor that in turn resulted with a union grievance, causing management to lose time and costing the company money.
5. August 4: Went to the Service Desk and tried to put a bag of M&Ms on layaway.
6. August 14: Moved a 'CAUTION - WET FLOOR' sign to a carpeted area.
7. August 15: Set up a tent in the camping department and told the children shoppers he'd invite them in if they would bring pillows and blankets from the bedding department to which twenty children obliged.
8. August 23: When a clerk asked if they could help him he began crying and screamed, 'Why can't you people just leave me alone?' EMTs were called.
9.. September 4: Looked right into the security camera and used it as a mirror while he picked his nose.
10. September 10: While handling guns in the hunting department, he asked the clerk where the antidepressants were.
11. October 3: Darted around the store suspiciously while loudly humming the ' Mission Impossible' theme.
12. October 6: In the auto department, he practiced his 'Madonna look' by using different sizes of funnels.
13. October 18: Hid in a clothing rack and when people browsed through, yelled 'PICK ME! PICK ME!'
14. October 21: When an announcement came over the loud speaker, he assumed a fetal position and screamed 'OH NO! IT'S THOSE VOICES AGAIN!'
And last, but not least:
15. October 23: Went into a fitting room, shut the door, waited awhile, then yelled very loudly, 'Hey! There's no toilet paper in here.' One of the clerks passed out." | My System Specs |
| System Manufacturer/Model Number HP Pavilion Elite 495UK OS Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-Bit CPU Intel Core i7 870 @ 2.93GHz Motherboard MSI 2A9C (CPU1) Memory 8Gb Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 664MHz Graphics Card nVidia GeForce GTX 460 1024MB dedicated RAM Sound Card Realtek HD Audio Monitor(s) Displays HP2310i Screen Resolution 1920 x 1080 Keyboard Logitech K750 solar-powered keyboard Mouse Logitech Wireless M180 mouse PSU 460W Case HP Elite Cooling Air cooled Hard Drives 1x1954GB Hitachi HDS22020ALA 330 (RAID), 1x1954GB Hitachi External for backup and storage Internet Speed 2Mb Other Info Pure Avanti Flow Internet Radio with iPod Dock, 64Gb iPod, HP USB Speakers, Sony MDR-V500 Headphones, Sony Vaio F-Series Laptop |
05 Nov 2011
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| | Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 7600 12,173 posts cornwall UK |
last christmas my son and i set off all the musical santas, they were bobbing up and down and singing carols.
the staff gave us a few frowns, | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Hewlett packard/p6512uk OS Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 7600 CPU IIx4 amd athelon 635 processor Motherboard FOXCONN 2AA9 Memory 2x2gb Graphics Card ati radeon HD 5450 Sound Card (1) Realtek High Definition Audio (2) AMD High Definition Monitor(s) Displays samsung lcd tv 32" Screen Resolution 1360x 768 Keyboard wireless hp Mouse wireless Hp,optical PSU ? Cooling air! Hard Drives (1) WDC WD10 01FAES-60Z2A0 SATA Disk Device (2) Maxtor OneTouch USB Device (3) ST310003 33AS USB Device (4) WD My Book 1111 USB Device Internet Speed 1.10mb/s Antivirus MSE Browser Firefox |
05 Nov 2011
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| | Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-Bit 446 posts Peterborough, England |
Many years ago, I was on leave in Singapore and along with some pals ended up in the notorious Bugis Street in the early hours.
It was fast approching Chinese New Year when one of us picked up a firework from one of the stalls. He asked the Malay store holder how this thing worked and was told to pull the blue touchpaper, which he promptly did.
The rocket flew into the firework stall and set the lot off with a display culminating in three burnt out stalls and three chastened sailors hot-footing it back to their ship pretty sharpish. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number HP Pavilion Elite 495UK OS Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-Bit CPU Intel Core i7 870 @ 2.93GHz Motherboard MSI 2A9C (CPU1) Memory 8Gb Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 664MHz Graphics Card nVidia GeForce GTX 460 1024MB dedicated RAM Sound Card Realtek HD Audio Monitor(s) Displays HP2310i Screen Resolution 1920 x 1080 Keyboard Logitech K750 solar-powered keyboard Mouse Logitech Wireless M180 mouse PSU 460W Case HP Elite Cooling Air cooled Hard Drives 1x1954GB Hitachi HDS22020ALA 330 (RAID), 1x1954GB Hitachi External for backup and storage Internet Speed 2Mb Other Info Pure Avanti Flow Internet Radio with iPod Dock, 64Gb iPod, HP USB Speakers, Sony MDR-V500 Headphones, Sony Vaio F-Series Laptop |
05 Nov 2011
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| | Windows 7 Ultimate x64/Windows 8 Consumer Preview x64/Ubuntu 11.04 8,372 posts Somewhere Over The Rainbow |
It's not only retired men that do it though. I'm pretty sure all males do. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom Build OS Windows 7 Ultimate x64/Windows 8 Consumer Preview x64/Ubuntu 11.04 CPU Intel Pentium Dual Core E6700 3.2GHz Motherboard ASUS P5G41T-M LX Memory Strontium 8192MB DDR3 1333Mhz Graphics Card msi GeForce N560GTX-M2D1GD5 1GB Sound Card Realtek HD Audio Monitor(s) Displays CHIMEI CMV 221D 22" Screen Resolution 1680x1050 Keyboard Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 1000 Mouse Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse 2000 PSU SHAW Viper-1500w Gaming PSU Case Black eMaxx ATX Mini Tower Case Hard Drives Seagate Barracuda LP Green 3.5'' 2TB Internal HDD 5900RPM + WD Elements Desktop 1TB External HDD 7200RPM Internet Speed 100GB @ 4.76Mbps |
06 Nov 2011
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| | Windows 7 Home Premium x64 SP1 32,109 posts Bay Area Peninsula |
My 1st job was at Kmart. They are famous for their "blue light specials". They have this cart, with a pole and a flashing blue light on top. It has an automobile battery underneath for power. The shoppers flock whenever it gets turned on.
We'd turn it on and walk it around the aisles for a while. We'd get a trail of people following. Then we'd park it against a wall, turn it off, and walk away. The people would stand there for a while, and slowly drift away.
A Guy | My System Specs | | OS Windows 7 Home Premium x64 SP1 CPU INTEL Core i5-750 Quad-Core 3.37GHz Motherboard ASUS P7P55D Memory KINGSTON 4GB (2 x 2GB) HyperX PC3-12800 DDR3 1600MHz CL8 Graphics Card MSI N240GT-MD1G/D5 GeForce GT 240 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 Monitor(s) Displays Samsung SyncMaster B2430H 24" Screen Resolution 1920 x 1080 PSU ANTEC TruePower New TP-550, 80 PLUS, 550W Case ANTEC Three Hundred Illusion Cooling COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 Plus, 4 x 120mm 1 x 140mm Noctua's Hard Drives Intel X25M Gen2 80GB, SEAGATE 500GB Barracuda® 7200.12, SATA 3 Gb/s, 7200 RPM, 16MB cache Internet Speed 20 + Mbps Antivirus Avast Browser Opera |
06 Nov 2011
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| | Windows® 8 Pro (64-bit) 8,233 posts Mumbai, India |
That was really funny. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Samsung NP530U4B-S02IN OS Windows® 8 Pro (64-bit) CPU Intel® Core™ i5 Processor 2467M (1.60GHz, 3MB L3 Cache) Motherboard Samsung Electronics Memory 6GB DDR3 System Memory at 1,333MHz (on BD 4GB + 2GB x 1) Graphics Card AMD Radeon™ HD7550M 1GB DDR3 (Ext. Graphic) Sound Card Realtek High Definition Audio Monitor(s) Displays 35.56cm (14.0) SuperBright 300nit HD LED Display Screen Resolution 1366x768 Hard Drives 1TB S-ATA II Hard Drive (5400RPM) with ExpressCache 16GB SSD Internet Speed sucks Antivirus Microsoft Security Essentials Browser Google Chrome (Sync enabled) |
06 Nov 2011
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| | windows 7 home premium 64-bit 73 posts |
Posing Barbie in compromising positions with Mr. Potato Head...... | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number HP ProBook 4530s laptop OS windows 7 home premium 64-bit CPU Intel i3 2310M 2.10 GHz Memory 8 G Hard Drives 320 gig 7200 RPM Other Info Wireless adapter: Atheros AR9285 802.11 b/g/n |
06 Nov 2011
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| | Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-Bit 446 posts Peterborough, England |
I once had a boss I hated with a passion, but as I was a maintenance electrician I had the run of the factory.
In those days there were no touchpad telephones, they all had a dialler.
Anyway, I went into his office after he had gone home and removed all the fixing screws from the base of his telephone and carefully replaced the handset.
The next morning I watched for him to come into work, waited for him to get to his office and called him on the pretence I was the telephone engineer doing an inventory of all the phones before a new maintenance contract was drawn up.
At this stage I asked him to check the serial number, which was on the bottom of the phone so naturally he picked the phone up to do so. The base fell apart in four pieces, the handset fell on the floor and bits of the phones innards popped out all over the place.
He never did discover who did it and I dined out on that story until I retired. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number HP Pavilion Elite 495UK OS Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-Bit CPU Intel Core i7 870 @ 2.93GHz Motherboard MSI 2A9C (CPU1) Memory 8Gb Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 664MHz Graphics Card nVidia GeForce GTX 460 1024MB dedicated RAM Sound Card Realtek HD Audio Monitor(s) Displays HP2310i Screen Resolution 1920 x 1080 Keyboard Logitech K750 solar-powered keyboard Mouse Logitech Wireless M180 mouse PSU 460W Case HP Elite Cooling Air cooled Hard Drives 1x1954GB Hitachi HDS22020ALA 330 (RAID), 1x1954GB Hitachi External for backup and storage Internet Speed 2Mb Other Info Pure Avanti Flow Internet Radio with iPod Dock, 64Gb iPod, HP USB Speakers, Sony MDR-V500 Headphones, Sony Vaio F-Series Laptop |
07 Nov 2011
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| | Windows 7 Professional 32-bit 104 posts |
Hahah that's brilliant. I need to try some of those myself | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Compaq Presario CQ61-223SA OS Windows 7 Professional 32-bit Memory 2GB |
07 Nov 2011
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| | Windows 7 Home Premium 32-Bit - Build 7600 SP1 3,036 posts Houston, Texas |

Quote: Originally Posted by seavixen32 I once had a boss I hated with a passion, but as I was a maintenance electrician I had the run of the factory.
In those days there were no touchpad telephones, they all had a dialler.
Anyway, I went into his office after he had gone home and removed all the fixing screws from the base of his telephone and carefully replaced the handset.
The next morning I watched for him to come into work, waited for him to get to his office and called him on the pretence I was the telephone engineer doing an inventory of all the phones before a new maintenance contract was drawn up. == HEY, CHILIDAWG. We have a lot in common.
At this stage I asked him to check the serial number, which was on the bottom of the phone so naturally he picked the phone up to do so. The base fell apart in four pieces, the handset fell on the floor and bits of the phones innards popped out all over the place.
He never did discover who did it and I dined out on that story until I retired. I did a similiar trick. -- On the older phones the mouth piece was just screwed on. You could unscrew it and take the diaphram out and put the plastic cover back on. When the next call comes in the person answers and says "Hello". Of course no one can hear him so he speaks louder and then louder before he hands up. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom Build OS Windows 7 Home Premium 32-Bit - Build 7600 SP1 CPU Intel Core i3-2120 3.30Ghz Motherboard Asus P8Z68-V LX Intel Z68 Socket H2 ATX Memory Kingston 4 GB DDR3 1333 mhz Graphics Card Zotac GeForce 9400 GT 512MB Sound Card Sound Blaster Audigy SE 24-Bit Monitor(s) Displays Samsung Sync Master 940 = 19 inch Screen Resolution 1440 X 900 Keyboard Microsoft Natural 4000 Mouse Microsoft Custom Optical 3000 PSU 500 watt Case NZXT Apollo - Silver with Clear Side Panel Cooling Three 120 mm Fans Hard Drives OCZ Vertex 3 120 GB Sata 3 SSD ==
Western Digital 160 GB Caviar Blue 7200 RPM ==
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