.....but how do you keep the flies on the hook ? :rolleyes:
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.....but how do you keep the flies on the hook ? :rolleyes:
Dumbest question asked so far this year was: "The sign says 'Catch And Release' only....does that mean I can't take a fish home for dinner?????"
I was working in Seattle for a dot com startup in 2000. We had a computer server crash one day. The server's function was to handle the company's email system, and fortunately no one lost any correspondence, although some messages were delayed a few hours.
The site manager however could not send an email to the directors of the company who were located in Colorado. He had to actually pick up a phone and (God forbid) talk to them.
While bit... errr... complaining about the inconvenience, he seriously asked me; "Why didn't you at least send out a company wide email letting everyone know that the server was down?" (you know, the email server, the one that broke..)
Stupid questions usually come from frustrated people that switch off their brains for short periods.
Here's Your Sign is the debut comedy album of Bill Engvall. Really funny. The concept is that some folks should be give a sign to wear that reads "Beware, Stupid person."
All of the above questions would be answered by Engvall with merely
"Here's your sign."
I used to work for a small ISP (that's how a worm drowner meets JC and Dee).
We used to provide Internet back when you could actually surf the entire web in a single day. Way back before Windows 95. To get customers online in those days we had a little "how to set up windows" printout (several pages) with lots of screen shots etc, for people to follow, and if they had issues, we would let them bring in their systems, and install the software for them.
I was in charge of the tech support crew, and I swear on 2 separate occasions we had people call in complaining that they could not complete our installation instructions, because no matter how hard they looked, they couldn't find the "any key" on their keyboards that our instructions told them they needed to press to continue to the next part of the installation.
You have to love people that follow directions to the letter :)
A twist on the stupid questions....rtidds story reminded me of another computer related story and somewhat involving stupid questions.
I was the network support tech for a construction company and received a call from a frustrated worker in a smaller office located about 80 or so miles away. She claimed her monitor had gone out and they were in the middle of a very important bid. I asked her if she had checked the connection to the computer and she stated yes. I then asked if the power cord was plugged in and the power was on. I was then told to quit asking stupid questions and figure out what to do to replace the monitor. I loaded up a replacement monitor and drove to Olympia, WA the location of the office, from Everett which meant I had to drive through Seattle and the city traffic to get there. When I arrived I carried the new monitor inside and looked at the back of the system which had the failed monitor. I found a loose power cord which I plugged in and the failed monitor promptly started working. I looked at the gal that called in the failed monitor and only said to her if this happens again you now have a spare monitor, walked out of the office and drove back to Everett. When I arrived I had a voice mail from a very humble fellow employee apologizing profusely about a failed monitor and a drive thru Seattle traffic. You see there are no stupid questions just people that can't be bothered with them.
:confused:We have a summer place in Estes Park, near Rocky Mountain National park. My favorite that is asked by tourists several times each summer is:
"how old are the deer before they turn into Elk?"
I grew up in Vermont. I used to go hunting with my dad in the fall. We never got a deer, but the outing in the snow and cold with my dad was well worth the trip.
Every year you would hear the story about some city dude from NYC or Boston or somewhere coming up on a hunting trip, and waiting until no one was around to ask the hunting license clerk "What does a deer look like?"
Much better than the yearly sighting of an out of state license plate with a cow strapped to the roof.
So you see, sometimes that stupid question is a good thing!
Two weeks ago I was fishing in a state park. A man and his son had been watching me catch several crappies. After a few minutes the gentleman came up to me and asked what bait I had been using on the fly.
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As an IT Systems Administrator I think I've heard every stupid question in the book when it comes to technology. However, the best occured when I was still in college and worked in a retail store called Store of Knowledge.
As part of our line we carried software. This is in the days when floppies were still common and CDs were a novelty. We had a customer purchase some software (delivered on CD) and then call in later in the day because she was having issues with it. I answered the phone (by dumb luck) and the customer explained she was having difficulty in getting the CD into the computer. I asked her if her system had a CD drive (remember these are the days where that was an option), she wasn't sure so I asked her to describe the drives on her system. She told me about the floppy and then described a "cup holder". For a split second I was confused and then asked her, "Is this is the tray that comes out when you push the button on the front?"; her response, "Yeah, the cup holder." I had to stiffle the laugh until I convinced her this was her CD drive and that is where the disk was supposed to go.
My now wife worked for the same store, and one day she was talking to a customer about ant farms. The store sold two sizes, small and large. One day a customer in all serious asked her, "Does the small one come with littler ants". To this day when someone asks my wife or I a really dumb question that is how we refer to it a "littler ant" question.