My aunt had this enormous printer/scanner/copier. One of those high tech things that does everything but actually print, scan or copy without you standing on your head singing a song to the "printer gods." She went out and bought a little easy to use printer to use in addition to the other one. She got everything set up and started printing a document. The new little printer worked like a charm. It was zmmmp zmmmp zmmmping out the pages when she saw a flash of light from the corner of her eye. Then she noticed the sound hwaaawommmm hwaaawommmmm-the other printer, the monster, was printing. She walked over to turn it off as the page finished printing....it was not the document. It was this:
I would have wet my pants! Every time she used the new printer the old one would spit out the frowny face!!!!!! I would have ripped that thing out of the wall and thrown it out the window.
I have long contended that printers are actually gateways to hell. Finding one that is not a total pain in the arse to use is a challenge. Finding one that rebukes you for using a new one is just further proof of my gateway theory.
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I *hope* that someone is messing with your Aunt, I too would have flung the frownie-face-making machine out of the house . . . that is just TOO wierd!
I gotta know what that's about!
Oh My Gosh! That is freaking hillarious! I would have so thrown it out the window.
NO WAY! That is TOO FUNNY!
If she starts building mountains out of her mashed potatoes and landscaping, look out.
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LOL! Indeed, that's highly creepy!
OMG, that is just hilarious!
I don't have a printer problem, but I think my router is definitely in league with Satan.
I think that it was a programmer's idea of a joke. The printer was "old school" and required a crap load of software. I think they may have set up the frowny face as a type of "test page" to be printed if it was no longer the default printer. Does that make any sense?
Barry-um...she hasn't done that but I did see her making pictures of binary code on a lite-brite while humming dummm dummm dummm dumm dummm.
SouthernBell-thanks!
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