• anon (unregistered)

    comment here

  • Mat Scales (unregistered)

    Not sure I get the Emulex one. Some American cultural assumption?

  • Steve H (unregistered)

    Frith

    captcha: nussbaum

  • (cs)

    Hello?

    What can I do you for?

    Did someone call the Ass function?

  • (cs)
    Do not look into aperture while laser pointer is on

    Ok.

    See warning label on laser barrel

    Sure. Hrm, it's kinda dark in here. I'll just turn on the laser light and AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

  • JakeyC (unregistered) in reply to Mat Scales
    Mat Scales:
    Not sure I get the Emulex one. Some American cultural assumption?

    Glad I'm not the only one.

    Someone care to explain?

  • (cs) in reply to Mat Scales
    Mat Scales:
    Not sure I get the Emulex one. Some American cultural assumption?

    We language joke

  • Top Tension (unregistered)

    Isn't 'to network' a verb?

    I'm not getting it either...

  • (cs) in reply to Top Tension
    Top Tension:
    Isn't 'to network' a verb?

    I'm not getting it either...

    It's a play on Native American stereotypes from the 20th century.

  • Some Guy (unregistered) in reply to Top Tension

    Yes, network is a verb. However, most neanderthals will not see it as a verb, they'll see it as a noun. Ooh funny.

    These same people will then lose interest and probably go buy an iPhone or something (Ooh shiny).

  • (cs)

    If you don't "get" the Emulex one, that's probably a good thing. Or maybe the fact that I draw that conclusion says something horrible about me.

  • (cs)

    I also failed to get the Emulex one. Then the comments informed me that I had got it, I had just thought it too unfunny to be the point.

    I don't get the "HARDWARE INSIDE" one, though.

  • hardwaaaaarrrreeeeee (unregistered) in reply to ThomsonsPier
    ThomsonsPier:

    I don't get the "HARDWARE INSIDE" one, though.

    the bag is probably supposed to say "keep bags away from children, don't let them eat these bags" instead of saying "bag must have warning label".

  • (cs)

    I'm having trouble with this #ASS I'm working on. Anybody want to take a look?

  • Josephus (unregistered)

    That sounds almost like.... like.... why yes it is.. it is the sound of someone scraping the bottom of a barrel.

    What a poor selection of wtfs today.

  • Crash Magnet (unregistered)

    The joke in the EMULEX item is that this is supposed to be the cover/title page of a book or manual and it contains a Windows tile bar, menus, and accelerator buttons.

  • Verm (unregistered) in reply to Crash Magnet
    Crash Magnet:
    The joke in the EMULEX item is that this is supposed to be the cover/title page of a book or manual and it contains a Windows tile bar, menus, and accelerator buttons.

    Ummm, i think that is just a screenshot from a pdf reader, not a printed manual scanned back in....

  • Crash Magnet (unregistered) in reply to Crash Magnet
    Crash Magnet:
    The joke in the EMULEX item is that this is supposed to be the cover/title page of a book or manual and it contains a Windows tile bar, menus, and accelerator buttons.

    It would have been more obvious if the author had taken a picture of the manual placed on a wooden table.

  • Sobachatina (unregistered)

    Throw in my vote for not getting the Emulex. It can't be the "We Network Storage" which is perfectly correct and understandable English. If it was the pdf reader title bar I would think the summary would point out that it was a paper manual. Otherwise I just assume they were shipping their manual as a pdf like everyone does.

    Anyone get it?

  • (cs) in reply to Some Guy
    Some Guy:
    Yes, network is a verb. However, most neanderthals will not see it as a verb, they'll see it as a noun. Ooh funny.

    These same people will then lose interest and probably go buy an iPhone or something (Ooh shiny).

    Yes, networking is a verb. However, I doubt if you can "network" storage (let me e-mail you my physical hard disk...). And if you do, I seriously doubt that's what they do. Still, not funny though.

  • jasper (unregistered) in reply to Crash Magnet

    I don't think that's the case; the submitter is viewing the manual as a PDF file. Is the joke supposed to be with "We Network Storage"? Since Emulex makes storage equipment that sits on the network, it makes sense to me. I don't see a WTF.

  • silent d (unregistered)

    The abacus bead is (more or less) in the middle, does that mean it's really a tri-state abacus?

  • Sobachatina (unregistered) in reply to Evo
    Evo:
    Yes, networking is a verb. However, I doubt if you can "network" storage (let me e-mail you my physical hard disk...). And if you do, I seriously doubt that's what they do.

    I just assumed it was a manual for an NAS. How else would you describe it than networking storage?

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    WOOOOO SPONSORS!! Actually I'm not that bothered but I wanted to get involved in the comments so here I am.

  • anon (unregistered) in reply to Evo
    Evo:
    Some Guy:
    Yes, network is a verb. However, most neanderthals will not see it as a verb, they'll see it as a noun. Ooh funny.

    These same people will then lose interest and probably go buy an iPhone or something (Ooh shiny).

    Yes, networking is a verb. However, I doubt if you can "network" storage (let me e-mail you my physical hard disk...). And if you do, I seriously doubt that's what they do. Still, not funny though.

    You can't network storage? Really? Ever heard of a SAN? Not exactly a new or obscure concept, especially on a site for tech people. And yes, that is exactly what Emulex does.

  • Resuna (unregistered)

    Score another person completely missing the point on the Emulex joke. Slightly strained phrasing? A possible goatse that you have to really want to see a goatse to see (I've been using Emulex kit for 30 years and I still don't see it)? The only WTF is why this is in TDWTF.

  • @Deprecated (unregistered) in reply to Yaos
    Yaos:
    I'm having trouble with this #ASS I'm working on. Anybody want to take a look?

    Sure... why don't you post a screen capture.

  • Bit (unregistered) in reply to silent d
    silent d:
    The abacus bead is (more or less) in the middle, does that mean it's really a tri-state abacus?

    You mean your bits don't have the values of "YES", "NO", and "MAYBE"?

    How quaint.

  • anon (unregistered) in reply to Bit
    Bit:
    silent d:
    The abacus bead is (more or less) in the middle, does that mean it's really a tri-state abacus?

    You mean your bits don't have the values of "YES", "NO", and "MAYBE"?

    How quaint.

    my bits have values of YES, NO and FILE_NOT_FOUND, where'd you get a MAYBE bit from

  • (cs) in reply to Bit
    Bit:
    silent d:
    The abacus bead is (more or less) in the middle, does that mean it's really a tri-state abacus?

    You mean your bits don't have the values of "YES", "NO", and "MAYBE"?

    How quaint.

    That's a visualization of FileNotFound.

  • justsomedude (unregistered)

    To correctly interface with #ASS, ...

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    I'm not getting the Emulex one either. "We network storage" would be a perfectly valid thing to say for a Network Attached Storage provider or similar. In fact, if a NAS provider didn't network storage then they wouldn't actually be a NAS provider, would they?

  • (cs)

    Look at the Emulex logo. Think back a few years, to one of the most popular shock sites on the Internet. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you won't get the Emulex thing, but you'll be able to sleep easier without seeing goats.

    //I don't know if that's what the submitter saw there, but that's what I see.

  • Anon (unregistered)

    Ass displays in my super genie?

  • Tim McCormack (unregistered)

    TRWTF is today's TDWTF:

    • Binary abacus: Cute, but not a WTF
    • Don't get the bus one
    • #ASS is vaguely amusing (but there are other WTFs in the doc)
    • Cock-flavored is funny, but has nothing to do with "curious perversions in IT"
    • Emulex is not funny, or I just don't get it
    • Bag warning label is not IT-related
    • What the hell is with the cement truck? It's a pun, get over it.
    • China/USA -- nothing to do with computers
    • Void if seal is torn: Not IT, overplayed.
    • Rovio: The first even vaguely appropriate one
    • Null: Second appropriate one
    • The ruler photo is so bad I can't tell if it has clear margins
    • Target: I could swear we've seen this before.
  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Evo
    Evo:
    Yes, networking is a verb. However, I doubt if you can "network" storage (let me e-mail you my physical hard disk...). And if you do, I seriously doubt that's what they do. Still, not funny though.
    You're kidding right? If not, you learnt something new today:

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-attached_storage en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_area_network

    [Removed links and http:// because Akismet sucks donkey balls]

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Remy Porter
    Remy Porter:
    Look at the Emulex logo. Think back a few years, to one of the most popular shock sites on the Internet. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you won't get the Emulex thing, but you'll be able to sleep easier without seeing goats.

    //I don't know if that's what the submitter saw there, but that's what I see.

    Remy, if you honestly see Goatse in that logo then you've spent FAR too much time on the internet. Get outside man, enjoy the fresh air. Try to look at the clouds without picturing a gaping anus.

  • jdw (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    Ass displays in my super genie?
    It's more likely than you think.
  • Top Tension (unregistered)

    Hmmm, thanks for the info. I was brave and found the goatse pic (I must have led a sheltered life so far) and to me the association with the Emulex logo is extremely far fetched. I don't think I'd have made the connection, even if I had know the pic.

  • Steve? (unregistered)

    Does anyone know what the hell that advert on the back of the bus was for? WTF underwear? WTF?

  • Embittered Former Military Computer Programmer (unregistered) in reply to hardwaaaaarrrreeeeee
    hardwaaaaarrrreeeeee:
    ThomsonsPier:

    I don't get the "HARDWARE INSIDE" one, though.

    the bag is probably supposed to say "keep bags away from children, don't let them eat these bags" instead of saying "bag must have warning label".

    That's in the spirit of some in-line documentation I once saw on some creaking ancient mainframe assembler code I had to maintain.

    "This comment is here to satisfy Captain Soandso's requirement that every line of assembler code has a comment."

    CAPTCHA: nulla. If a "null" is $1000, I wonder how the extra "a" affects the cost.

  • (cs) in reply to anon

    Nothing wrong with the c-thru ruler, had it been see - thru I could see a WTF. Wait, I have found it: the WTF is that this guy is using a ruler for statistics.

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to amischiefr
    amischiefr:
    Nothing wrong with the c-thru ruler, had it been see - thru I could see a WTF. Wait, I have found it: the WTF is that this guy is using a ruler for statistics.

    No, the WTF is that he using a ruler, but it isn't a slide ruler.

  • Craig (unregistered)

    Not only did I not get the emulex one, I didn't get the ruler one either. Kinda seems like scraping the bottom of the barrel for this one.

  • (cs) in reply to Steve?
    Steve?:
    Does anyone know what the hell that advert on the back of the bus was for? WTF underwear? WTF?
    I saw it as Wednesday Thursday Friday (pack an extra pair would imply staying somewhere not at home, so when you stay elsewhere you plan by days ... maybe a stretch)
  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    On the Emulex one, I think the submitter was thinking the phrase was implying "We are network stroage", hence the "yes, yes they are" phrase...

    I would say that TRWTF is the submitter not grasping the "We network storage" is just another way of saying "We put storage on the network", but then it really says something about the prevalence of Engrish in modern society that people start to assume it's the norm.

  • (cs) in reply to Tim McCormack
    Tim McCormack:
    TRWTF is today's TDWTF:
    • Binary abacus: Cute, but not a WTF
    • Don't get the bus one
    • #ASS is vaguely amusing (but there are other WTFs in the doc)
    • Cock-flavored is funny, but has nothing to do with "curious perversions in IT"
    • Emulex is not funny, or I just don't get it
    • Bag warning label is not IT-related
    • What the hell is with the cement truck? It's a pun, get over it.
    • China/USA -- nothing to do with computers
    • Void if seal is torn: Not IT, overplayed.
    • Rovio: The first even vaguely appropriate one
    • Null: Second appropriate one
    • The ruler photo is so bad I can't tell if it has clear margins
    • Target: I could swear we've seen this before.
    I concur. My only addition was one that amischiefr beat me to... a ruler in statistics class?

    Also, was the painting one really appropriate? Without seeing the painting, how can we know? Maybe they painted an empty set and meant it to be titled null.

  • (cs) in reply to amischiefr

    I think the WTF is supposed to be that the ruler isn't see-through.

    LAWLZ I SAW A CAR WITH THE FORD MOTOR COMPANY LOGO ON IT. A car, not a motor! Isn't that just Sooooooo WTF?

    Newsflash: Companies sometimes add to their product lines.

  • Steve H (unregistered) in reply to Evo
    Evo:
    Yes, networking is a verb.

    No, "networking" is a noun.

  • Drew (unregistered)

    For even more clarification on the Emulex motto....They don't make storage devices (disks/san/etc) so much as they provide the HBA cards to link your computer to storage like EMC/Hitachi/Sun/STK/etc. So, technically, "we ARE network storage" would be incorrect, however, "we NETWORK storage" is actually what they do....they make devices to connect your computer to storage on a Storage Area Network.

    Maybe I'm wrong that they don't make storage, but mainly, they are an HBA card manufacturer from most people's viewpoint.

    So....no, no they aren't! They Do!

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