On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 12:33:09 -0500, "Gary Drescher"
wrote:

"Darrel Toepfer" wrote in message
...
Roy Smith wrote:

After a half an hour of this, the tech says, "Sir, do you still have the
box the computer came in?". The hapless person on the phone admits that
he does. "OK, sir, what I want you to do is take the computer, put it
back in the box, and return it to the store you bought it from. You are
obviously too stupid to own a a computer".

True story, the problem was because the electricity was off, and the
computer owner thought it should work without any...

Tech was fired over that comment too...

Nope, urban legend. http://www.snopes.com/humor/business/wordperf.htm

Urban legend does not necessiarly mean it's false. It may have been
repeated so often as to have taken on a life of its own.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com


--Gary