Monday Morning Laugh

Initial issue, courtesy of Jeremy, my PC Repair counterpart in the Phoenix area:

"It's running win98se, P3, 192 MB ram, 20 GB drive.

This machine has had a very long history of having people install spyware on it, screw up the drives (it's about to get cd-rom drive #3) and other sundry issues with it locking up. It's also had non-company software installed on it, and it probably needs to be wiped and have a fresh image put on it."

My boss's response:

" . . . I have been wondering about this - do you think spyware steals RAM (slowly) and that is why the 192? And where does it go, and . . . Yeah, if this cannot go above 192, then what?"

Jeremy answered the question, to which I responded:

"That's better than my explanation: I thought that maybe the Magenta Fairy waved her wand over the RAM. The RAM then grew little legs and began to do the Time Warp. Eventually, the spyware got annoyed by the constant drinking and carousing anad bopped it on the head with Ded Bob's bonker. This resulted in the death of a few chips, but the remainder of the stick would remain intact, which doesn't spell good things for *next* weekend, especially since functional computer technology is seldom over 21 years old. Damn jailbait chipsets."