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In article <4vt178$b...@eccdb1.pms.ford.com>, tph@longhorn.uucp (Tom Harrington) 
writes:

>Lon Stowell (lsto...@pyrtech.mis.pyramid.com) wrote:
>: In article <4vf2rs$f...@paperboy.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> m...@cs.nott.ac.uk 
(Mike Knell) writes:
>: >
>: >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'm inclined to think that this was created from someone's imagination
>as well.  One point, though...  I currently own 3 CD players, and none
>of them have loading trays like those commonly found on PCs.  So the
>fact that they've probably seen and used CD players would not necessarily
>tip them off.  Posessing more brain cells than fingers would, however,
>be sufficient under most circumstances.
>
>: 	Hmmmm.  Ever work in a help desk environment for a "wide range
>: 	of technically competent" users?   Thought not.
>
>Yes.  Every time I think "nobody could be THAT stupid", I think back
>to my days at the Boston U. help desk.

I don't know about you guys, but I have seen quite a few "stupid" people in my 
lifetime, and wouldn't put it past the intellectually challenged to do 
something like this.  After all, we live in a society in which a woman who 
spilled hot coffee on her sued McDonalds for selling her "hot" coffee (as 
opposed to what, "cold" coffee?).  We gotta remember that human intelligence is 
given on a pretty equal curve (Einstine on the top, most of us in the middle, 
and the unfortunate few on the bottom).

Dennis
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