Does It Run On Pixie Dust
I'm an Electronics Techie in the RAF. I was visiting the Help Desk of a certain base located deep within the wilds of Suffolk and was lucky enough to eavesdrop on this particular gem.

Caller: "There's something wrong with my computer."
Operator: "What seems to be the matter with it?"
Caller: "Well, I can't log on."
Operator: "What's happening? Is it telling you that your password's wrong?"
Caller: "Nothing's happening, that's why I called you."
Operator: "Okay, when you try to log on, what do you see on the screen?"
Caller: "Nothing."
Operator: "Nothing?"
Caller: "That's what I said, isn't it? It's all just black."
Operator: "Have you tried to reboot it?"
Caller: "I've pressed the power loads of times, it's all just staying black. Nothing even happens when I type my password in. Will this take long, I have emails to check you know?"
Operator: "Are there any lights on the front of your computer?"
Caller: "Lights? What sort of lights?"
Operator: "Green lights? Little flashing green lights?"
Caller: "No, nothing like that."
Operator: "Okay, could you just look around the back of your computer. Above the power lead should be a switch, could you check that's set to the I position rather than the O position?"
Caller: (sounds of fumbling for 30 seconds) "I don't know."
Operator: "Well, is the switch set to I or O?"
Caller: "How am I supposed to tell? It's pitch black in here."
Operator: "Could you not just turn the lights on and have a look?"
Caller: "How the hell do you expect me to do that in the middle of a power cut? Now get someone down here to fix my computer, this instant."
(Chocolate Hostage, Sun 27 Sep 2009, 21:04, 11 replies)

god that's an old one...
was funny the first few times i heard it...
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sun 27 Sep 2009, 21:08, closed)

Jesus
I got that one via email in 1987.
(Spaff_Quaffer Wise fwom your gwave., Sun 27 Sep 2009, 21:28, closed)

Mohammed
I got that in 1976
( Signify, Sun 27 Sep 2009, 22:20, closed)

my grandad left me that in his will.
in 1967.
2 years before i was born.
;-)
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Mon 28 Sep 2009, 0:21, closed)

I heard
that this story was dug up in a time capsule buried in 1842.
(Ed Quarters has moved house!, Mon 28 Sep 2009, 9:35, closed)

It was actually discovered painted in a cave in France
and has been dated to at least 3000BC
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 28 Sep 2009, 9:41, closed)

although it is not the oldest known example of IT support humour
That would be the cupholder story found carved in a cave on Gibraltar, which is believed to date back to as early as 12000 BC.
(Poezestrepe, Mon 28 Sep 2009, 11:01, closed)

Fred and Barney
Heard that about 500,000 years ago!
(Suck it and Sea, Mon 28 Sep 2009, 18:38, closed)

Rubbish
What do you think God was really doing on the seventh day?
( Sonic the Hedgetrimmer doesn't care what you think, Mon 28 Sep 2009, 23:02, closed)

The seventh day!?
Did you not hear about god's call to IT support when he was still planning the universe?
(golddust QOTW now revolves around being a cunt, Wed 30 Sep 2009, 16:58, closed)

makes sence
Oral tradition goes much further back than written records or cave art.
(Poezestrepe, Wed 30 Sep 2009, 18:16, closed)