John,

That's ones funny....

Scott ford
www.identityforge.com

On Aug 30, 2012, at 1:09 PM, "McKown, John" <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> That's right up there with:
> 
> "my PC is down!"
> "Did you press the power button?"
> "Yes"
> "What do you see, try ...."
> ...
> "OK, it's really bad. What is the serial number?"
> "I don't know."
> "It's on the top at the back."
> "I can't read it. The light are off due to the power failure in the building."
> "Good bye"
> 
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]]
>> On Behalf Of Scott Ford
>> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 12:05 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: Too true to be funny - 51% of the surveyed Americans think
>> that stormy weather can interfere with the functionality of the cloud.
>> 
>> Oh yes...I had a pc user once down in the early days of pcs. I asked
>> her if it was powered on, she said do I need to do that .......
>> 
>> Scott ford
>> www.identityforge.com
>> 
>> On Aug 30, 2012, at 12:08 PM, Kirk Wolf <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> I remember years ago, when I worked at an insurance company, that we
>> fired
>>> a network help desk guy... when users called in to say that their
>> remote
>>> 3270 cluster was down he liked to ask them to look outside to see if
>> there
>>> were any birds on the phone line.
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 8:39 AM, McKown, John
>> <[email protected]
>>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> http://www.citrix.com/lang/English/lp/lp_2328330.asp
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> <quote>
>>>> The survey carried out on 1000 adult americans of age 18 and more
>> paint a
>>>> disturbing picture: 54% of americans do not know what the cloud is
>> and
>>>> claim to never have used it. But, from these, 95% use it regularly
>> for
>>>> online banking, online shopping, social sites such as Facebook or
>> Twitter
>>>> and online sharing of photos and files. All of these services
>> operate
>>>> within the cloud, but it would seem that not everyone understands
>> this.
>>>> Also, another alarming number is that  51% of the surveyed Americans
>> think
>>>> that stormy weather can interfere with the functionality of the
>> cloud.
>>>> </quote>
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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