Excuse of the Day - July 29,2003
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  1. July 29th, 2003, 10:01 AM #1
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    Excuse of the Day - July 29,2003

    The spelling and grammer checker is not working?

    Use this if a user complains that the Internet is slow or the network is down.
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  2. July 29th, 2003, 10:32 AM #2
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    Meh,

    not sure if this one has the right ammount of believability to it......

    how about something like.................

    Kernel Maintenance is causing server slowdown

    The key is to spout off acronyms faster than they know what to do with and in essence flip "dummy mode" (see BOFH archives) on and then they stop asking questions

    see now?
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  3. July 29th, 2003, 10:47 AM #3
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    no the idea is to take something completely unbelievable and make the sheep users believe it. it's gotta be a challenge

    User: Why is the internet slow
    Me: Our spelling and grammer checker is down.
    User: Huh
    Me: We've been working on installing spelling and grammer checking software on our internet and email servers to avoid constant mispellings in outgoing email - we want to look as professional as possible to our vendors. Today there seems to be a known bug in the software that is causing the internet to slow down as the proxy server is attempting to access the software's spelling and grammer Mysql database when it shouldn't be. Our IT our in conversations with the software's support dept and the problem should be fixed by tommorow.
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  4. July 29th, 2003, 01:33 PM #4
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    You could always blame it on the "July 29,2003 virus"????
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  5. July 30th, 2003, 06:21 AM #5
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    Re: Excuse of the Day - July 29,2003

    Originally posted by techmonkey13
    The spelling and grammer checker is not working
    So it seems...

    Grammar
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  6. July 30th, 2003, 07:52 AM #6
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    Re: Re: Excuse of the Day - July 29,2003

    Originally posted by Platypus
    So it seems...

    Grammar
    Thank you, finally someone caught the error. I almost gave up hope.
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  7. July 30th, 2003, 08:38 AM #7
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