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The Worst Foods to Eat Over a Keyboard
An anonymous reader writes "Pasta? Pizza? Keyboards are often subject to the harshest of conditions -- spaghetti sauce, coffee spill, et al. ZDNet is running a list of worst-food nominations. What is your pick?"
Cause it would stick to every key.
Ramen is bad to eat over a keyboard... poor poor keyboard. At least it tastes like spicy chicken!
I would say the In-N-Out 16 x 16 burger would be no fun over a keyboard: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/TexasBurger Guy/InNOut/inout_big.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/TexasBurger Guy/InNOut/inoutreceipt_big.jpg
My mother's cooking. Worst. Food. Evar.
Orange fingers + keyboard = orange keyboard.
It's not recommended to lick off the orange powder from your fingers either since that makes your keyboard full of either saliva (best case) or an orange paste (if you do a poor job licking).
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This should be a poll.
Worst option: Cowboyneal.
Best option: Breasts!
This is news? Hell people, just look down for a sec and see for yourself.
Spam. :-)
Assume I was drunk when I posted this.
Jelly? Perhaps today's puny, mushy keyboards would stop working properly when confronted with some measly jelly. My keyboard laughs and keeps on clickety clacking along in data input perfection.
I'll stop using it when they pry it away from my cold, dead fingers. If I ever can't interface it with future PCs I may have to stop buying new computers.
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Sperm! Everyone gets that over their keyboards, right?
For a subject like this, I'm almost rooting for the GNAA trolls to get here first. Because, "Jiz" really was the non-linear solution many were no doubt hoping for.
I can confirm that Pepsi is at least as good as Coke, possibly better, at ruining keyboards.
I've chunked through more keyboards eating Cheetos. Not only do the crumbs fill in the voids between keys rather quickly, but you also get that nasty orange residue on the keys. Needless to say, I no longer eat Cheetos while coding! I now try to stick to things like M&M's and Skittles.
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Well, you live anyway.
Not a food per se but a friend of mine has destroyed several keyboards when late night post-pub gaming has turned into uncontrolled vomiting.
(And yes an actual friend opposed to a scapegoat alter ego.)
And believe it or not but some people still don't accept that passive smoking harms *people*
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I have two 25 cent Dell keyboards I bought with coffee stains on them from Boeing surpluss. They are they backup technology, to my fancy shmancy Logitech. Which if it ever dies, it due to be replaced by something fancier and schmancier (if possible).
"No soup for you!"
It's really hard to get your coke from under your keys. Either you have to use a can of compressed air and then you lose most of you coke when it gets shot into the air. Or worse, you try to snort it out of the keys, you are inhaling so hard and fast you are about to pass out, your boss comes in and you have your nose pressed against the crtl key. You try to explain to him that as a linux user you have a hard time pressing crtl+alt+del using just your fingers but the white smudge under you nose gives you away. I've lost countless jobs this way...
oh man :<
<anamexis> I was opening a coke, right
--> Beefpile (~mbeefpile@cloaked.wi.rr.com) has joined #themacmind
<anamexis> and it exploded
<anamexis> ALMOST all over my keyboard
<anamexis> but I got it away just in time
<-- Beefpile has quit (sick fuckers)
<anamexis>
Do you know something we don't? Would you care to share it with us?
This happened to a friend of mine:
:)
At a LAN party he accidentially spilled a coke can over his keyboard.
Luckily he had a second one to replace it. So he placed the new one where the old one was and simply turned around the broken keyboard above the new one without thinking.
He sucessfully spilled coke on two keyboards
Stop making that big face!
because it is also the worst food to eat period. (if you're not familiar with it count yourself lucky, it is fish reduced to a gelainous state by soaking it in Lye).
"Waste not one watt!" - CZ
> Keyboards are one of the few things
> with computers where cheaper is better.
In recent years this has been so true. The cheap*est* keyboards just keep getting better. My current favourite is the A$8 "Diamond Digital" (Mitsubishi). It's by far the best keyboard I've ever used and I've won a friend to it (without trying - he was using my workstation at work one weekend when he was there with a colleague and said he wanted one of the keyboards. I'd bought a spare and kept it in the booot I'd be able to sell it to a friend and did.)
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I think, therefore I am. I think?
when I was 9, on a brand-spankin' new Pet 2001 Professional Computer with 3.0 ROMs and a full-size K/B.
It was right after lunch, and I was showing off to a couple of Australian kids my 1337 programmin' skills, viz:
10 PRINT " IS A DORK"
20 GOTO 10
Went into the other room, got named (older) brother, and dragged him in to see the proggy. He was less than pleased, and expressed such displeasure physically on my back. I had just started to come down with bronchitis, and the combination was too much for my lunch to bear.
I'll never forget the suffering on my father's face when he came home, sat down at the table, and tried for hours to clean that thing.
It never really worked right after that. He even replaced the keyboard, and it still had keys that wouldn't always conncect.
There's a better Bash.org quote: (from memory)
Dammit I just spilt man juice all over my keyboard
TMI!! TMI !!!
Eww!!
Oh No! I meant Mango Juice!
Damn that was a bad typo...
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Spaghetti Code is worse than spaghetti sauce.
No geeks or nerds should be eating anything with a GI of more than 50 over their keyboards.
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$5.99 Keyboard (Score:4, Interesting)
...accidental sperm from unexpected ejaculation...
/me slowly backs away
Unexpected ejaculation?
"Yes your honor, I was innocently surfing some pr0n pages and my dick erupted without notice".
"I think it would be a good idea!"
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...accidental sperm from unexpected ejaculation...
If you're that numb, skip the (uni?)sex and go back to your XBOX.
OTOH, there are some psychoactive drugs that make ejaculation come before the orgasm - I'm guessing you should avoid those...
RETURN without GOSUB in line 1050
Ever try washing your hands?
I spilled a glass of single malt scotch (Talisker Distillers Edition) over my laptop. Took 3 weeks cleaning the keybooard in destilled water and drying out to sober it up again... ;)
My experience is different: Cherry is my favourite. At least a keyboard should have individual switches. I once had a keyboard which used one giant rubber slab underneath the keys. At each key this slab had a small elevation with the contact, more or less like the buttons on ATMs etc. The problem is that the rubber hardly has enough force to press up the plactic key, especially when this has also been degisned poorly. Cheaper is NOT better in this case...
Can't you just brush it off? It's only powder...
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Definitely boogers.
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Wow. I'd hate to know what your room is like if you have problems with mice crawling over your stuff. And the problems with girlfriends? Stop jerking off over your keyboard and clean up.
Surely, they were eating in the restaurant. There's no way any flimsy to-go bag would hold up to that much grease.
You lot must be bored.
I have a cheap-as microsoft kb... I've spilt like 6 of those mega-gulp cups filled with coffee (they're good for staying up all night) in, on and around it, and it still works fine. I think the best course of action is just to get a towel and tip it upside down on that, leave it for about 5 minutes to drain through... And also, instead of using big gulp cups, just use a waterbottle (if using a plastic one, put the milk in BEFORE the coffee and/or use warm not boiling water, otherwise it shrivels up). If you're typing at 3 in the morning, you've probably got the coordination of a blind, deaf, retarded 3 year old.
Oh and people who complained about this post.. "ITS NOT REAL NEWS" you aren't expected to like EVERY single article on this ENTIRE site, its ONE article.. jeez, get over yourselves.
Hot grits, of course!!
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Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
...with half-and-half. Think about it. Gooey, quick-hardening, crusty when dry. Took an hour and a half of quick and thorough work to return the keyboard (A SUN keyboard)to somewhat usable. And some keys still stuck for a month after.
> the coke ate away at the circuitry
Thank god that it doesn't do the same to your teeth and stomache.
If your teeth and stomach are made of metal, then yes, maybe you should be concerned about drinking Coke.