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Message 1130748 - Posted: 22 Jul 2011, 22:49:11 UTC - in response to Message 1130735.  

I recently sent the team a bit of money specifically for b33r.

Being frugal as always, the team managed to buy a small truck load of unlabeled b33r in dented and generally rather questionable cans.

At 1700 Wednesday, their shipment arrived. After receiving their shipment, the men of SETI at Home realized that they only had a mini-fridge in the corner that was held together with duct tape and unicorn tears. Upon this realization, they set to work drinking each and every beer they had ordered in glimmering respect for the "Waste not, want not" creed.

6 men, 32,001 beers. 8 hours.

It is well known that the men of SETI at Home resemble Yukon lumberjacks who have two hobbies; wooden model ducks and weight lifting. To say they were up to the task is a vast understatement as each man gripped their frosty beer in a well calloused hand and raised it to their lips.

45 minutes and 3.4 beers later, each and every man was roaring drunk.

The downtime was a direct result of the Team waking up on Thursday morning with a hangover that could kill a cantankerous yak from 1000 meters away. Have you ever had a hangover while sitting in a room filled with blinking lights, roaring fans, oppressive heat and questionable beer sitting quietly on a pallet in the corner?

Eric summoned the last of his strength and tossed a solitary can of beer over his head like a hand grenade ala Saving Private Ryan which struck the wall mounted 'OFF' switch with grace and precision.

Thus the office took Thursday off. The only sounds emanating from the lab on Thursday was the occasional moan and muffled belch that could be faintly heard over the Plop Plop Fizz Fizz of round after round of Alka-Seltzer.

Fin.

LOL...veeeeery nice fairy tale.
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Message 1130749 - Posted: 22 Jul 2011, 22:51:18 UTC - in response to Message 1130745.  

After removing the improbability field (using a Bambleweeny 57 Sub-Meson Brain, an atomic motion plotter, and a very hot cup of tea), the electrons were dumped back into the servers, and rebooted


Don't forget the length of duct tape wound around the primary circuit breakers of the Gaussian deflector shields. That coupled with the dab of Marmite on the coils of the Warp Drive, seemed to help.

I believe it took exactly fourty-two turns of duct tape....
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Message 1130754 - Posted: 22 Jul 2011, 22:58:34 UTC

It was the Jeffries tubes again. Had to blow out the accumulated anti-matter ash and residue, then everything worked just fine.

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Message 1130755 - Posted: 22 Jul 2011, 23:00:19 UTC - in response to Message 1130749.  

After removing the improbability field (using a Bambleweeny 57 Sub-Meson Brain, an atomic motion plotter, and a very hot cup of tea), the electrons were dumped back into the servers, and rebooted


Don't forget the length of duct tape wound around the primary circuit breakers of the Gaussian deflector shields. That coupled with the dab of Marmite on the coils of the Warp Drive, seemed to help.

I believe it took exactly fourty-two turns of duct tape....

The mechanic's substitute for duct tape would be JB Weld.....to boldly fix what has never been fixed before.
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Message 1130758 - Posted: 22 Jul 2011, 23:05:28 UTC
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Message 1130760 - Posted: 22 Jul 2011, 23:06:47 UTC

Bugs. The kind from the book by Theodore Roszak. (german: Wanzen im Hirn - das Ende der Computer)
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Message 1130761 - Posted: 22 Jul 2011, 23:07:07 UTC - in response to Message 1130755.  

After removing the improbability field (using a Bambleweeny 57 Sub-Meson Brain, an atomic motion plotter, and a very hot cup of tea), the electrons were dumped back into the servers, and rebooted


Don't forget the length of duct tape wound around the primary circuit breakers of the Gaussian deflector shields. That coupled with the dab of Marmite on the coils of the Warp Drive, seemed to help.

I believe it took exactly fourty-two turns of duct tape....

The mechanic's substitute for duct tape would be JB Weld.....to boldly fix what has never been fixed before.

I should have included a link.
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Message 1130763 - Posted: 22 Jul 2011, 23:10:41 UTC - in response to Message 1130758.  

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ROFLMAO....
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Message 1130766 - Posted: 22 Jul 2011, 23:14:18 UTC

Ducks in marmite sauce. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
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Message 1130790 - Posted: 22 Jul 2011, 23:44:36 UTC - in response to Message 1130758.  

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Bwahahahaha, "the AA battery in the wallclock sends magnetic interference" :)
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Message 1130792 - Posted: 22 Jul 2011, 23:51:40 UTC - in response to Message 1130790.  

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Bwahahahaha, "the AA battery in the wallclock sends magnetic interference" :)

I'm afraid our friend Scarecrow has one-upped us again....

"Paradigm shift....without a clutch."
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Message 1130814 - Posted: 23 Jul 2011, 1:21:38 UTC - in response to Message 1130632.  

I believe that someone narfled the garthok
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Message 1130822 - Posted: 23 Jul 2011, 1:51:07 UTC

It was Gophers I tell Ya!

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Message 1130823 - Posted: 23 Jul 2011, 1:52:58 UTC

The whatchamacallit got over heated when the whatsit broke off when a whosit bumped into it, thereby sending the thingamajig into shut down mode.
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Message 1130824 - Posted: 23 Jul 2011, 1:55:54 UTC - in response to Message 1130823.  

The whatchamacallit got over heated when the whatsit broke off when a whosit bumped into it, thereby sending the thingamajig into shut down mode.

The Whojadie?

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Message 1130834 - Posted: 23 Jul 2011, 2:20:46 UTC

I like this one:

"bad ether in the cables"

HAHA, thanks Scarecrow!
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Message 1130836 - Posted: 23 Jul 2011, 2:23:21 UTC - in response to Message 1130822.  

It was Gophers I tell Ya!




Sandy: I want you to kill every gophers on the golf course!
Carl Spackler: Correct me if I'm wrong Sandy, but if I kill all the golfers, they're gonna lock me up and throw away the key...
Sandy: Not golfers, you great fool! Gophers! The *little* *brown*, *furry* *rodents* -!
Carl Spackler: We can do that; we don't even have to have a reason. All right, let's do the same thing, but with gophers -!


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Message 1130838 - Posted: 23 Jul 2011, 2:26:20 UTC

Before speculation gets too far out of hand, I just wanted to say

Ididntdoitnobodysawmeyoucantproveanything
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Message 1130848 - Posted: 23 Jul 2011, 3:13:24 UTC - in response to Message 1130792.  

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Bwahahahaha, "the AA battery in the wallclock sends magnetic interference" :)

I'm afraid our friend Scarecrow has one-upped us again....

"Paradigm shift....without a clutch."

Yeah, that's rough on the phase-synch gears. Grind those too many times, they lose teeth, slip, and then the fergustats overspeed and burn up all the lubricant.

Then the smog detectors go off, triggering the halon phase differentials, and the whole system gets ferschimmeled.

Last time it happened, it took three weeks just to get rid of the burnt lubricant smell.
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Message 1130857 - Posted: 23 Jul 2011, 3:42:22 UTC - in response to Message 1130758.  

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Excuse for outage:

descramble code needed from software company

Luv It.

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