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>The best keyboard/typing one I ever heard was from a friend who works in
>the Call Centre for Microsoft. Apparently this story is a legend in there.
>
>This girl calls up to say she can't get Word 6 (back in Win 3.1 days here)
>to work on her 286 /386 or whatever it is. She has put Disk 1 of the set of
>6 or 7 in the floppy drive, followed the instructions, but nothing happens
>- everytime she enters "INSTALL" from the A:> prompt, she gets "bad command
>or file name".
>
>The Microsoft assistant tries everything, and talks her through the
>procedure twice, to no avail, even checks to see if she is inserting the
>floppy fully and its the right way up in the drive. Still no joy.
>
>Eventually, frustrated after an hour long  attempt, the Microsoft guy says
>" are you absolutely sure you're typing INSTALL?"
>
>To which the girl replies " Well, yeah - except my N key is broken, so I'm
>using M instead - does that matter?"
>
>Amazing how stupid some people can be.......
>
>BTW, I have loads more of these if anybodys interested!!

I guess you have the 'classic' call centre one, where after endless help
from the assistant, the punch line is -

'Sir, do you have the computer plugged in to main power supply ?'

-- 
Malcolm Cadman

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