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TAGS:coral, printer
IT TOPICS:Hardware, Management

Pilot fish is installing a new workstation when he notices something sitting on the stack of paper in a nearby printer.

"It was a piece of coral," says fish, "so I took it out.

"A user saw that and put the piece of coral back, saying it held the top of the tray up so the paper didn't fall to the floor.

"I took the coral back out and flipped over the tray extension. It was amazing."

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Aren't you glad you spent

Submitted by Freg on December 1, 2009 - 5:31 P.M.

Aren't you glad you spent four (or more) years in university now?

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I should have gnome

Submitted by Mad Hatter on December 1, 2009 - 10:44 A.M.

That reminds me of the time I was fixing the ansible in the marketing department. I noticed that their admin-o-bot was chained to the desk. So I go over and unchain it. About that time, one of the marketing trolls runs up and goes FLUF on the robot with his axe. I'm like "what the Arch Demon are you doing!?" And the troll was like "If isn't chained down, it wanders off. Something about a secret mission." So I pick up the restraining bolt that they were using to keep printouts from falling on the floor and jamb it into the robot's recepticle. The troll was like "oh, I thought that was part of the packing material." And I'm like "ALL robots think they have a secret mission. Otherwise, they'd realize they only exist to do the crappy jobs humans ... or even trolls ... don't want to do. Did you even Read The FLUFFin' Manual?" And the troll was like "hey, we don't read anything bigger than a tri-fold glossy down here."

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some secret mission

Submitted by dupeofurl on December 2, 2009 - 5:24 P.M.

ALL robots are searching for Sarah Conner. No secrets there!
N-QB3 clueing -- no way to spell, n00b!

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cyber Monday

Submitted by Jim but not THE Jim on December 1, 2009 - 11:23 A.M.

Mad,
How did you celebrate cyber Monday?

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Stop the stupdness.

Submitted by Anonymous on December 1, 2009 - 3:22 P.M.

Stop the stupdness.

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WELL PUTT

Submitted by JIM THE BOSS on December 1, 2009 - 4:11 P.M.

YUO EXPERSESS YUORSLEF WELL AMONYMOUSS

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Or according to that great movie line:

Submitted by The Arch Demon on December 1, 2009 - 7:40 P.M.

"STUPDNESS IS AS STUPDNESS DOES" -- JIM THE GRUMP

CAPTCHA: fixates Department -- sounds like another gubment takeover

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Oh, come on!

Submitted by Trapper John on December 1, 2009 - 11:27 A.M.

MH celebrated yesterday 2,000 years ago in the future! You expect him to remember that? Besides, he stays drunk all the time in the 21st century! Yeesh...

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