I'm dating myself a little, but we used to call people that make statements like these "twelve o'clock flashers".<br><br>EXPLANATION: if you would have gone to their house back in the day of VCRs, invariably the clock on their VCR would be flashing 12:00 - i.e. they were completely inept at working with the simplest technology.<br><br>-Go0se<br><br><b><i>Micah Bennett <mbennett@als-xtn.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <!--[if !mso]> <style> v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} </style> <![endif]--> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Tahoma; panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;} /* Style Definitions */
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font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Micah</span></font></b></strong><font color="navy"><span style="color: navy;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: navy;"> </span></font><o:p></o:p></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <hr tabindex="-1" align="center" size="2" width="100%"> </span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"> cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net] <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b>Paul<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, May 02, 2008
12:05 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Kevin Dunn; Cisco Voice<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [cisco-voip] What do you Call it</span></font><o:p></o:p></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I call those people who give me those errors "The-sky-is-falling" types. *shrug*<br> <br> Paul<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br> From: Kevin Dunn <cheesevoice@gmail.com><br> To: Cisco Voice <cisco-voip@puck.nether.net><br> Sent: Friday, May 2, 2008 10:02:30 AM<br> Subject: [cisco-voip] What do you Call
it<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This Post is just to interject a little IT humor in the group. When an end user calls with a vague request "The Faxes are down"... what do you guys call that....<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We refer to them as B.S.O.D. Blanket Statements of Disaster. they include but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I
can't dial ...<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Phones are broken...<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I can't print anthing....<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I think the system is down....<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">and my personal favorite<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Internet is
down...which I usually reply with "The WHOLE Internet, relax...I got it at home, I will back it up and bring it in"<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">so what do you guys call those?<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Kevin<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"
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