{"id":12473,"date":"2008-04-22T11:11:10","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T18:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/04\/22\/mercifully-ive-never-gotten-any-exactly-like-these.html"},"modified":"2008-04-22T11:11:10","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T18:11:10","slug":"mercifully_ive_never_gott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/22\/mercifully_ive_never_gott.html","title":{"rendered":"Mercifully, I’ve never gotten any exactly like these"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tech support calls you don’t want to get from your parents<\/a> …<\/p>\n

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11. Your father was looking at porn again and spilled ‘something’ on the keyboard.<\/p>\n

10. I want you to build me a new computer, but I still want to stick with Windows ME because I’m familiar with it.<\/p>\n

9. My cronjob doesn’t work but when I grep the error logs nothing’s there. Do you think it has something to do with the kernel recompile I did last night?<\/p>\n

8. The hard drive was squeaking, so I found this site that said you could grease the hard drive bearings, and now it doesn’t work.<\/p>\n

7. How long does it usually take for nigerian millionaires to send the money after you send them your bank account information?<\/p>\n

6. My hairdresser told me it’s something to do with hardbox memory.<\/p>\n

5. Your brother tried to fix it and…<\/p>\n

4. It seems to rattle a lot when I shake it really hard.<\/p>\n

3. The keys don’t type the proper letters anymore.<\/p>\n

2. Your dad set the crackpipe on the keyboard and a few of the keys melted together. Do you think you could pick us up another one?<\/p>\n

1. I clicked on the attachment and everything started acting funny.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

No, really. My parents are much <\/em>better than that. Really. Love you guys!<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

(via BD<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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