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Mike Knell wrote:
> A story has been circulating in the computer press and on Usenet (I've been
> told it verbally by a couple of cow-orkers as well) over the last couple
> of months, always attributed to different places (Novell and Gateway 2K have
> both been mentioned, but more often "a well-known computer manufacturer").

Yeah.  The ULish part is that the company always mutates, but the 
essential elements of "the plot" remain in place, e.g. the tech
pressing the mute button, so he can laugh.

> Obviously, it's possible that people could be so stupid as to use their
> CD drive as a cup holder, but since virtually anyone who uses a PC would
> have seen a CD player at some point, or at least would have the brain
> cells to rub together to work out that all the knobs and lights mean
> that it's *not* just a pop-out cup holder, I'm pretty damn sceptical.
> 
> I dunno, but this story just screams "UL" at me..

Having worked the phones, I truly enjoyed this story the first time I
heard it ... but then I sat there looking at the minitower on my desk
and realized that *every CD-ROM drive* has this logo on the front that
says 
     compact
     d i s c

... and, after all, the CD player is several times more common than
the CD-ROM drive.  I hear you don't even need a computer to run one ...

Again, having been on the other side of the phone from the users, I
am extremely tempted to believe them capable of the most atrocious
depths of misconstruction.  But that doesn't mean I believe EVERY
story.  Sometimes we tell them to each other, just to be mean, you
know.  ;-)

Dan "Now I manage the surfer for a land" Hartung