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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?"

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  1. Wet Cement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cause it would stick to every key.

    1. Re:Wet Cement by jcuervo · · Score: 5, Funny

      Which one's the Every key?

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    2. Re:Wet Cement by hwoolery · · Score: 5, Funny

      Hand lotion... oh wait, things we were eating near the keyboard. What, like you haven't done any one-handed surfing lately?!?

    3. Re:Wet Cement by stupid_is · · Score: 4, Funny

      It's next to the "Any" key

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    4. Re:Wet Cement by Zone-MR · · Score: 4, Funny

      ... which is apparently here.

    5. Re:Wet Cement by jlebrech · · Score: 4, Funny
      Thats such a shame, I absolutely love Wet Cement sandwiches,
      the dryness just makes my tastebuds tingle with enjoyment.

      Does that mean i cant eat them near my computer.
      I also love to wash it down with a pint of Gasoline, which tastes really good, just like Whisky cola.

  2. Ramen by TheKidWho · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ramen is bad to eat over a keyboard... poor poor keyboard. At least it tastes like spicy chicken!

  3. In-N-Out Burger!!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    1. Re:In-N-Out Burger!!!!! by Rosyna · · Score: 4, Funny

      And people wonder why americans are so fat. In america, those kinds of burgers are labeled "Jr."

    2. Re:In-N-Out Burger!!!!! by lpontiac · · Score: 4, Funny
      http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/TexasBurger Guy/InNOut/inoutreceipt_big.jpg

      Is it just me, or is that receipt for a 16 patty burger with a small coke?

    3. Re:In-N-Out Burger!!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'm not FAT, you insensitive clod. I'm just short for my weight.

    4. Re:In-N-Out Burger!!!!! by TCaptain · · Score: 4, Funny

      So what's your ideal height at that weight? fifteen feet?

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    5. Re:In-N-Out Burger!!!!! by galego · · Score: 4, Funny

      That's a surprise .. the American way is to get a burger like that, supersize and get a DIET soda. See ... cuz you can save a lot by cutting out the calories from that soda.

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  4. Worst food? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    My mother's cooking. Worst. Food. Evar.

  5. Cheetos! by carlivar · · Score: 4, Funny
    Cheetos!

    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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    1. Re:Cheetos! by Gopal.V · · Score: 5, Funny

      If you are a left hand typist you might end up with a .uh... Orange dick too...

    2. Re:Cheetos! by Al+Al+Cool+J · · Score: 3, Funny

      Which is why the smarter computer nerds know to eat cheetos with chop sticks. Honestly, what are they teaching you kids in school these days?

  6. CowboyNeal... by aendeuryu · · Score: 5, Funny

    This should be a poll.

    Worst option: Cowboyneal.
    Best option: Breasts!

    1. Re:CowboyNeal... by One+Childish+N00b · · Score: 4, Funny

      Breasts are often the worst option to do anything with over a keyboard - the woman they're attached to tends to get pretty pissed you won't quit posting to /. long enough to play with them properly!

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    2. Re:CowboyNeal... by Crayon+Kid · · Score: 4, Funny

      Breasts are often the worst option to do anything with over a keyboard - the woman they're attached to tends to get pretty pissed you won't quit posting to /. long enough to play with them properly!

      Reading stuff like this on /., I wish there was a "SciFi" rating...

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  7. This is news? by MrEcho.net · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is news? Hell people, just look down for a sec and see for yourself.

  8. Should be obvious: by jcuervo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Spam. :-)

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  9. IBM Model M by carlivar · · Score: 5, Funny
    I scoff at the notion that food can interfere with my keyboard. I'm not sure nuclear war would interfere with it. It is the best keyboard ever made... an IBM Model M.

    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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    1. Re:IBM Model M by Ford+Prefect · · Score: 4, Funny

      I saw an elderly IBM PC at a riding stables once. Basically the whole machine from the monitor down was filled with powdered horse-shit.

      Still worked fine, of course.

      I've no idea if it was a Model M keyboard attached, but I wouldn't be surprised...

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    2. Re:IBM Model M by mikael · · Score: 3, Funny

      A guy at college bought his second-hand PC from a fish warehouse - three months after buying it, it still had that "fresh-from-the-sea" smell.

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    3. Re:IBM Model M by plover · · Score: 3, Funny

      Hey, you crossposted from rec.foods.sticky into comp.editors.vi!!!

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  10. Noone here has mentioned! by seymansey · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sperm! Everyone gets that over their keyboards, right?

    1. Re:Noone here has mentioned! by Stephen+Williams · · Score: 4, Funny

      Because we're talking about food. Although I think you just put me off mayo for life.

      -Stephen

  11. Pepsi by rve · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can confirm that Pepsi is at least as good as Coke, possibly better, at ruining keyboards.

    1. Re:Pepsi by VdG · · Score: 4, Funny

      It works great for cleaning the limescale of skinks...

      Is this method approved by herpetologists?

  12. Re:Vended Hot Chocolate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    You live and learn!

    Well, you live anyway.

  13. Sad to say....vomit by MrAngryForNoReason · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.)

  14. Problem with IBM Model M keyboards by John+Seminal · · Score: 5, Funny
    They make LOUD clicking sounds. No way you could use one at night if you have a family. Nobody could sleep. Plus, if you have a smart wife, she can count the clicking and know what website your beating off to. Seriously. That is how I got busted.

    {click}-{click}-{click}{click}{click}-{click}-{cli ck}{click}-{click}

    Wifey: God Damn it Bill, I told you, no more teens!

    {click}{click}-{click}-{click}{click}{click}-{clic k}

    Wifey: Or transvestites!

    {click}-{click}-{click}-{click}{click}-{click}

    Wifey: That's better, read the news.

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  15. Re:Coke by anatoxindustx · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

  16. obligatory bash.org quote by lobotomir · · Score: 5, Funny

    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> :<

  17. How to ruin two keyboards. by b00stA · · Score: 5, Funny

    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 :)

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  18. Patty Patty Patty by GraemeDonaldson · · Score: 5, Funny
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/TexasBurger Guy/InNOut/inoutreceipt_big.jpg
    When I saw "Patty Patty Patty" all over that receipt, I half expected "Mushroom Mushroom" right after it.
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    1. Re:Patty Patty Patty by Grayden · · Score: 3, Funny

      SHAKE! SHAKE! Ohhhhh... Needs a shake...

  19. Yeah, I did that once by DingerX · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

  20. Not the best one.. by CdBee · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  21. Spaghetti by noamt · · Score: 3, Funny

    Spaghetti Code is worse than spaghetti sauce.

  22. Re:$5.99 Keyboard by MMMDI · · Score: 3, Funny

    $5.99 Keyboard (Score:4, Interesting)

    ...accidental sperm from unexpected ejaculation...

    /me slowly backs away

  23. Re:$5.99 Keyboard by moranar · · Score: 3, Funny

    Unexpected ejaculation?

    "Yes your honor, I was innocently surfing some pr0n pages and my dick erupted without notice".

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  24. Re:Its not food (OR JIZZ, gadszooks....) but... by gkuz · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ever try washing your hands?

  25. Re:Coke by elgatozorbas · · Score: 4, Funny
    Every time I spill Coke on my keyboard

    Can't you just brush it off? It's only powder...

  26. Obligatory repsonse. . . . by SupremeTaco · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hot grits, of course!!

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  27. Re:Incorrect use of latin by hey! · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, such ad libitum use of Latin is prima facie evidence that the author is speaking pretentious twaddle, and, ipso facto we would do best to take what he says cum grano salis. Q.E.D.

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  28. Re:Coke by poot_rootbeer · · Score: 4, Funny

    > 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.