Meya
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posted on January 24, 2001 10:48:12 AM new
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/style/columns/reliablesource/A31833-2001Jan22.html
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jamesoblivion
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posted on January 24, 2001 10:51:16 AM new
According to George Stephonopolous the Clinton administration was left with a similar practical joke. The outgoing Bush administration left them with computers that were missing all their harddrives. Hahaha.
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Meya
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posted on January 24, 2001 10:56:04 AM new
What is unfortunate about any games of this type is that the Taxpayers foot the bill. Fun is fun, but imagine the cost of a keyboard bought through government channels?
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Antiquary
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posted on January 24, 2001 10:59:23 AM new
Yeah, that was a wonderful prank with removing the "W's" -- everyone on the talk TV shows were chuckling about that one last night. Unfortunately, it probably also ironically signals the end of intelligent humor coming from the White House.
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rawbunzel
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posted on January 24, 2001 10:59:44 AM new
So, do you think it was Bill and Hillary running around taking the "w"s or do you think it might have been a young internist?
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RainyBear
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posted on January 24, 2001 10:59:49 AM new
 I think it's funny.
Edited because I didn't read carefully.
[ edited by RainyBear on Jan 24, 2001 11:01 AM ]
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Shoshanah
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posted on January 24, 2001 10:59:56 AM new
There will be far greater waste of tax-payer's money in the coming years, than replacing a a few keyboards...May ALL our problems be small....
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codasaurus
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posted on January 24, 2001 12:02:07 PM new
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Never give your enemy a freebie opportunity to make you look bad in the public eye.
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Hodubyaever, given that the deed is done, I dubyaould think that the ansdubyaer to this little problem should be more than obvious to all of those dubyaell educated Yalies...
Heheh
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femme
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posted on January 24, 2001 01:52:21 PM new
I gave the prank----> 
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rancher24
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posted on January 24, 2001 05:49:52 PM new
I thought the missing "w"s were an amusing prank...(I worked in a facility once were we had a "ball" thief...came in one mornin' & found all our mice sans balls!)....What made me sick (truly nauseous) were the reports of how It has the technical and computer support people very busy. They already have quite a lot to do. I don't believe they expected to be coping with this as well. I think they're working to repair or replace the equipment, whatever they can do."....GEEZ, it's a keyboard problem!...They are the goverment...Get on the damm phone & have a truckload of the things delivered ASAP...(bill the Democrats)..Get the staff to replace them themselves....I dread to think if this little prank sent them into a tizzy, what's gonna happen should then run across a REAL PROBLEM!....YIKES!
~ Rancher
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kitsch1
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posted on January 24, 2001 06:21:39 PM new
Can you imagine ordering a few hunnerd mouse balls?
Delivered right away! We cannot operate until our employees have their mouse balls!!!!!!
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rancher24
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posted on January 24, 2001 06:53:38 PM new
kitsch1....I was the big cheese in charge of mouse balls! (I had other responsibilities too!).....We scrounged all "non-essential" balls first....Then placed a whoppin' order for new mice (complete with balls) ASAP!.....Even got us a spare supply of balls (the small super balls will do the trick in a pinch) case the "rat" who stole 'em the first time resurfaced......
~ Rancher
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kitsch1
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posted on January 24, 2001 07:00:57 PM new
Rancher, did you get many smart alec responses to the urgent calls for mouse balls?
{feeling mighty highschoolish right now, do forgive, I never felt highschoolish in highschool; makin up for it ya know}
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Shoshanah
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posted on January 24, 2001 07:05:25 PM new
They already have quite a lot to do. I don't believe they expected to be coping with this as well. I think they're working to repair or replace the equipment, whatever they can do."
THAT is funny!
Shows you the great mental dexterity our new government will be capable of...KWIK decision-making, here....
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rancher24
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posted on January 24, 2001 07:05:51 PM new
kitsch1....I WAS highschoolish in highschool (phoney phone calls were a gas! - Hey, do you have Prince Albert in a can?...Ya do?, well, let him out!...he.he.he.he.he.he.he.he)...and knowing that, I ordered new mice...Hey, it cost the company a few more bucks, but it saved me some embarrasment!
~ Rancher
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victoria
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posted on January 24, 2001 08:36:55 PM new
The people who actually do the work are not the ones who make the sound bites.
The ones who do the sound bites usually haven't the faintest freaking idea of anything technological. But they're the ones who make the big bucks, get to talk about things they don't truly understand, and get to take credit for anything good that happens, not the techie.
The guys who get paid to fix things KNOW its just a keyboard. The problem comes in that keyboards aren't considered repairable (by gov't standards - they can't buy spare parts for them even if they wanted to) and they only have so many in spare.
Plus, they don't get extra money because some groups of idiots sabotaged the boards, they just have to eat the money out of their budget, so naturally the techies are highly pissed, not confused.
And they probably don't have the facility to send the bill anywhere, gov't budgets are highly structured.
There is a lot involved with the changeover of the computers. The keyboards just made it all the more annoying, have you ever had to listen to desk jockeys whine? All these new self-important people are doubtlessly making simple jobs all the more miserable with insistance of their importance and how high on the list every darn one of them should be.
Don't blame the technicians, they're the ones doing the work, not the ones talking about it.
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ubiedaman
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posted on January 24, 2001 09:00:43 PM new
Just take the dang "window" key (lower right,next to the "alt" that NO one use and put it in the "w" spot...WOW..does this mean I could be a Whitehouse IT?
Keith
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the ones that are someone else's fault.
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Shoshanah
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posted on January 25, 2001 09:45:58 AM new
ubiedaman....You have my total trust...I am CERTAIN you will be better than ANY of those yokels out there right now
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RainyBear
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posted on January 25, 2001 10:09:00 AM new
So I guess there's no Office Max within driving distance of the White House. I know, I know, proper procedure and all that... it's bad enough where I work, so I can only imagine the red tape in a government-run operation.
Victoria is right about it not being the techies who are making the sound bites. Management makes the decisions and creates the spin, tech staff just does the work. I watched a show about the space shuttle Challenger explosion last night. Did you know that there was a task force of engineers who knew there was a problem with the O ring and that it would be unsafe to launch in cold conditions, and that they recommended that the launch not take place but management decided to launch anyway??
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mark090
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posted on January 25, 2001 10:21:31 AM new
For God's Sake....
Just how hard is it for a republican to plug in a keyboard???? And they are just not that expensive, but it will probably cost us millions of dollars and require a special emergency appropriations bill by Congress. Dubya will then use that as an excuse to cancel the tax cut to the middle and lower income brackets because "rich kids were at fault, only those poorer ruffians"
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Shoshanah
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posted on January 25, 2001 10:41:04 AM new
Got an idea: Let's Email the White house. and tell them about e-BaY...Surely there are a few hndred keyboards for sale
And let's be sure to charge them heavy SHIPPING AND HANDLING....
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RainyBear
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posted on January 25, 2001 10:42:34 AM new
I would send them one of my old keyboards if they wanted it.
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rancher24
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posted on January 27, 2001 02:16:45 PM new
Office Max to the rescue!....
OfficeMax Solves "Key" Crisis for Bush Administration
CLEVELAND, Jan. 24, 2001 -- OfficeMax, Inc. (NYSE: OMX), the country’s largest office products superstore chain as measured in number of retail outlets, today announced that it is donating 500 new "W" keyboard keys and 100 keyboards to the Bush Administration to keep the wheels of government moving.
It was reported earlier that the "W" key on many White House keyboards were removed by unknown perpetrators.
Michael Feuer, OfficeMax's chairman and chief executive office said, "This bipartisan move is a reflection of corporate America's sense of urgency and desire to 'Ask not what your country can do for you, but instead, what can we do for our country?'"
The keyboards, manufactured by Logitech, feature a full assortment of the complete alphabet of 26 letters, including the "W." The company said providing the extra supply of "W" keys is added protection in the event of any similar occurrences in other agencies of the government.
~ Rancher
[ edited by rancher24 on Jan 27, 2001 02:18 PM ]
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Shoshanah
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posted on January 27, 2001 03:29:23 PM new
RB, Rancher.....Rolling on the floor....
"Michael Feuer, OfficeMax's chairman and chief executive office said, "This bipartisan move is a reflection of corporate America's sense of urgency and desire to 'Ask not what your country can do for you, but instead, what can we do for our country?'"
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