• Alan (unregistered)

    no it didnt

  • francis (unregistered)

    first.... :)

    TRWTF: not at all first...

  • Anonymous Organ Donor (unregistered)

    this is the dumbest thing I've read in a while... OR... TDWTF is lazy... OR.... April fools, you got us! you wacky bast***s...

  • Computerquip (unregistered)

    v.V, I hate Tweeter :(. Just another informational blog that takes information and brings it to the user because the user is lazy.

  • (cs)

    you made me spill my wine. (Isn't that the standard Twitter response?)

  • Philipp (unregistered)

    coughApril foolscough

  • Brandon (unregistered)

    I really like bagels

  • who the hell knows (unregistered)

    Unfortunately, nobody was ever able to explain the mysterious printer.

  • Brandon (unregistered)

    Taking the day off to spend with the kids

  • Brandon (unregistered)

    Driving home now.

  • Brandon (unregistered)

    Damn, another red light. Oh, it's green now

  • (cs)

    tl;dr

  • Brandon (unregistered)

    My thumbs hurt

  • Whoevar (unregistered)

    Oh damn, stop that. Give me at least 280 characters...

  • KG2V (unregistered)

    I hate April 1st - this shit is stupid. Every year, massive bandwith/time waste </grumpy_old_Man>

  • Blaque (unregistered)

    But who was phone ?

  • Ghlitch (unregistered)

    TRWTF: They didn't even have a janitor.

  • (cs)

    No quack.

  • Anonymous Organ Donor (unregistered)

    I think this is actually funny, because at my apartment, I have a switch that does nothing, so I don't switch it. After a month or 6 of being there, I found what it does - turns on / off the bottom half of an electrical outlet.

    But no, I couldn't find this when I moved it, took rewiring my entertainment center and plugging the whole thing into the bottom plug (thanks new surge suppressor with 90 degree down cord!).

    Stupid switch......

  • (cs)

    sleeping right now. My dog wrote this 4 me.

  • Zapp Brannigan (unregistered) in reply to Smash King

    What is an IT urban legend Alex?

    captcha: dailydouble

  • Anonymouse (unregistered)

    Solar-powered printers are a terrible idea.

  • Johnny Awkward (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous Organ Donor
    Anonymous Organ Donor:
    I think this is actually funny, because at my apartment, I have a switch that does nothing, so I don't switch it. After a month or 6 of being there, I found what it does - turns on / off the bottom half of an electrical outlet.

    I had one of those in Canada. Only took me a few weeks to work out what was going on. Why not just put the switch by the outlet - like they do in the UK.

  • Steve the Cynic (unregistered) in reply to who the hell knows
    who the hell knows:
    Unfortunately, nobody was ever able to explain the mysterious printer.

    duh. wdnt be mystrius if it cd b explaind, wd it?

  • monkey_code_hack (unregistered)

    ROFL April 1st winner!

  • Nathan (unregistered)

    Also explains the puddles on the server floor every morning.

  • (cs)

    Needs more anonymization, Alex. It'd be easy to apply an inverse Gaussian filter to see the company name, printer model, and the janitor's home address.

  • FredFredrickson (unregistered)

    Looks like slashdot is about to post a similar story about The Guardian going to twitter too.

    Apparently, this year's april fools joke is twitter.

  • (cs) in reply to DOA
    DOA:
    tl;dr

    Win.

  • seriously (unregistered)

    i <3 tdwtf lot better without creative writing

  • (cs) in reply to seriously

    What is Alex doing, posting conversations he is having at work now?

  • Erik (unregistered)

    be better as a haiku O.o

  • Osno (unregistered)

    Imagine the long version. This is better.

  • IT Girl (unregistered) in reply to Anonymouse
    Anonymouse:
    Solar-powered printers are a terrible idea.

    Not if you work outside. :)

  • Garbanzo (unregistered) in reply to Johnny Awkward
    Johnny Awkward:
    I had one of those in Canada. Only took me a few weeks to work out what was going on. Why not just put the switch by the outlet - like they do in the UK.
    The idea is that you plug a lamp into the switched outlet, then put the switch over by the door. Putting the switch on the outlet defeats the purpose.
  • (cs)

    Come out of the closet, printer! It's okay that you're gay!

  • krupa (unregistered)

    Great googly-moogly! Twitter is secretly teaching us to write haikus!

    "What did you just do?" Russ asks janitor. Confused, he says "turned off light

    Jokes that are stretches are like bad haiku poems you just don't get it

  • bored (unregistered)

    I have no idea what Twitter is: too lazy to find out or ever go there. :P But so far, I'm thinking it's a very bad idea.

    April fools day needs to move around every year so people don't see it coming. Otherwise it creates a need for much more elaborate hoaxes. This one is just boring.

  • Anonymous Organ Donor (unregistered) in reply to Garbanzo

    Oddly enough, I AM in Canada. Is this something we just do here? I mean, it makes sense - yes, you have a switch, that can turn off a standalone lamp. What got me was only half the double-outlet was switched - I've normally seen it full outlet only (Although I do like the half-outlet - still lets you use it for ________).

  • (cs)

    only after I read this, I realized how many junk your other articles contain. so short! so simple! and still the same fun!

  • Mr.'; Drop Database -- (unregistered)

    Your April Fools articles are better than your regular ones. Stick to this format, please.

  • ME (unregistered) in reply to KG2V
    KG2V:
    I hate April 1st - this shit is stupid. Every year, massive bandwith/time waste </stoopid_old_Man>

    It happens every year...maybe you could learn NOT to read this stuff on April 1st...It's not that difficult, you know

  • Johnno (unregistered) in reply to IT Girl
    IT Girl:
    Anonymouse:
    Solar-powered printers are a terrible idea.

    Not if you work outside. :)

    Or at least not if you work outside during daylight hours... (and they get a little wet in winter, too)

  • (cs) in reply to Alan
    Alan:
    no it didnt

    TRWTF is that the articles are written better on April 1 than any other day of the year.

  • (cs)

    Oh... I get it... It's a second April Fool's day prank. Which would have been funnier if I'd been reading it on the 1st of April not the 2nd. USA is so slow...

  • Nathan (unregistered)

    I made a laugh and it came out my pants.

  • C.K. (unregistered)

    Until now, I've been under the impression that Twitter itself was just a Apr 1 joke. Apparently it took off from there.

  • (cs) in reply to Smash King
    Smash King:
    sleeping right now. My dog wrote this 4 me.

    Poor dog doesn't even have its own blog? That's so Web1.0.

  • GermanGirl (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous Organ Donor
    Anonymous Organ Donor:
    I think this is actually funny, because at my apartment, I have a switch that does nothing, so I don't switch it. After a month or 6 of being there, I found what it does - turns on / off the bottom half of an electrical outlet.

    But no, I couldn't find this when I moved it, took rewiring my entertainment center and plugging the whole thing into the bottom plug (thanks new surge suppressor with 90 degree down cord!).

    Stupid switch......

    I think it's written in building codes that all houses must come equipped with a mystery switch. Every house I have ever lived in, has had one. Usually placed in an odd spot, and doesn't seem to control anything. No lights, no outlets, nothing. I probably could peek in and see if there are wires, maybe trace the circuit in some way, or see if it's just hiding a hole someone was too lazy to patch. But I think it's more fun to just wonder.... and look for the new one whenever we move!

  • Lego (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous Organ Donor
    Anonymous Organ Donor:
    Oddly enough, ... still lets you use it for ________).

    What!? Your giant industrial vibrator? Chia pet trimmer? Electric fence energizer? Personal DNA sequencer?

    You gotta finish the sentence, don't just leave us hanging? :-)

    Captcha=Gravis. Stop playing with your joystick!

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