Amazing displays of ignoranceSandettie Light Vessel Automatic tells us: "My dad's friend told us there's no such thing as gravity - it's just the weight of air holding us down". Tell us of times you've been floored by abject stupidity. "Whenever I read the Daily Express" is not a valid answer.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 16:48)
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PearoastAt one company I worked at there was a huge, high-profile, project that involved employing dozens of programmers from an out-sourcing company. Well, I say programmers but I actually mean people-pulled-off-the-street-and-poured-into-suits. To my jaundiced eye these "programmers" seemed to have very little programming skills and a breath-taking lack of knowledge of IT in general. So it was up to me to educate them.
"Hey Legless" squeaked one of the masses "What does TCP/IP actually stand for?"
Bear in mind that this was a web project they were working on. A web programmer didn't know what the very bones of the Internet stood for.
"That'll be Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Pixies" I lied smoothly.
He looked suspicious.
"Internet Pixies" he asked looking puzzeled
"Yup. You see the fathers of the Internet were a bunch of hippies so would name things out of Tolkien or from Dungeons And Dragons. I mean, you've heard of Unix Daemons? - Systems processes on Unix boxes? Well the Pixies carry the messages to the Daemons. It all makes a kind of weird sense when you think about it"
I was warming to my theme now.
"Then there's a bunch of other Pixies on the internet. Your dial up modem uses PPP doesn't it?"
He nodded.
"Well that's Pixie to Pixie Protocol. Then there's your mail - POP3. That's Post Office Pixie. I could go on but that's the meat of it. Pixies run the Internet."
He was nodding now and smiling.
"You know, it does all make sense. Can't wait to tell the other guys about this. We've been wondering about it for a while." says Mr Gullible.
And off he trotted.
Cheers
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Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 4:49,
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Funnily enough, I was thinking about this story the other day(remembering it from the first time you posted). I really hope someone asks me the same so I can do this too.
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Bob Todd whee, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 11:51,
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Heh...This had me chuckling to myself the first time I read it :)
Why oh why have I not had the chance to use it (yet)?
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snee held his breath since, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 11:52,
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