Random Silly Grins

kxkvi · April 15, 2019, 4:32pm

Just got a spam call from Argyle, TX. I bet it was one of those phone socks lines.

chgoliz · April 15, 2019, 4:41pm

IronEdithKidd · April 16, 2019, 2:47pm

It’s a huge, deadly kitten! Try the laser pointer next!

Chaz1 · April 16, 2019, 7:33pm

Wisconsin_Platt · April 16, 2019, 11:27pm

somewhere a wire transfer sends the second half of the payment for a completed job

Hitcat licks his paw to say, “my work here is done.”

RAvery · April 17, 2019, 2:21am

The Man from U.N.C.L.E with bewwwwbs.

infundibulum · April 17, 2019, 7:25pm

I don’t know if this counts as a random silly grin, but it made me grin. I was just doing a remote presentation over the web and I couldn’t figure out screensharing and I felt really silly. But then I remembered that my mom rolled a Volkswagon beetle while on acid when she was 17, and I realized nothing I do will ever be that ridic, and I felt better.

teknocholer · April 17, 2019, 8:22pm

Fixed.

LearnedCoward · April 17, 2019, 10:17pm

Oh, okay. This went in a completely different direction than what I was expecting.

I was thinking back to a poster session I did back when I was a grad student. This older, distinguished looking professor comes along and we have a conversation about my research. All is going well. Then, he points to one of the graphics and says, “what is ***that?***”

This graphic was a screenshot of our data acquisition running. I had a browser tab open along the bottom of the screen. All that was visible was “www.anal…”

It was a spec sheet for a part I needed for a board I was building, and I accessed this sheet from the Analog Devices webpage.

Didn’t matter. I’ve been way more careful about what I screenshot ever since.

kxkvi · April 18, 2019, 1:05am

It’s a verb? The present tense must be “screenshit”.

Nonentity · April 18, 2019, 1:18am

I think the proper verb is “screenshat”. Easy to confuse, though, especially if you’re typing in a New York accent.

LearnedCoward · April 18, 2019, 1:22am

Screenshot is present tense.

Screenshat is past tense.

Screenshit is anything in the screenshot that’s not supposed to be there.

nimelennar · April 18, 2019, 1:28am

I thought that was a screenbomb. Screenshit is what you get when you drop your phone and break the LCD.

LearnedCoward · April 18, 2019, 1:38am

Right you are. Screenshit is simply the output of a screenshot, intentional or not.

That’s screenshattered.

Wanderfound · April 18, 2019, 2:04am

I always felt sorry for the editors of the Journal of Analytical Toxicology; the official citation style abbreviated them to J Anal Toxic.

kxkvi · April 18, 2019, 2:27am

Then there’s the Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry and the Journal of Analytic Psychology.

nimelennar · April 18, 2019, 2:32am

This week in grunge band names…

ChuckV · April 18, 2019, 2:36am

No, that would be this:

LearnedCoward · April 18, 2019, 4:03am

The Man From A.U.N.T.?

kxkvi · April 18, 2019, 12:48pm

The MAD magazine satire was The Man From A.U.N.T.I.E., which stood for Association for Unbelievably Nauseating Television and Idiotic Entertainment.

now why do I remember things like that?