On Tuesday 10 November 2009, Rick Stevens wrote: >William Case wrote: >> Hi Craig; >> >> On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 17:02 -0700, Craig White wrote: >>> On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 06:55 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >>>> In addition, I had a power supply go wonky that ended up being the >>>> culprit. >>> >>> ---- >>> Is that a technical term (wonky)? >> >> Wonky is an open ended technical term. It describes a piece of hardware >> or software that does not act the way it used to, was expected to or >> hoped for. Its use implies that the user has not yet looked into why >> this may be happening, usually in the hope that someone else has already >> done the research and found a solution. Wonkyness is usually announced >> by the phrase "Oh sh*t!". > >Here at our labs, the correct sequence of phrases that determine if an >item has acquired "wonkiness" are: > > "Huh?" > "What the hell?" > "Goddamit!" > "She-e-e-t! Piece of junk!" > >Occasionally, the phrase, "It's never done THAT before!" is injected >somewhere before the last phrase. One often sees steam coming from the >ears of the personnel who have been victimized by wonkiness. It is >highly recommended to stay out of their offices for at least 30 minutes >to permit a cool down. One may accelerate the cool down by >surreptitiously sneaking a beer into the victim's line of sight. And you have, from previous encounters, a memory for the victims favorite brand of suds. Otherwise its considered poor form, but you knew that. OTOH, there are times when its being wet is enough. :) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> Saffron: "You're a good man." Mal: "You clearly haven't been talking to anyone else on this boat..." --Episode #6, "Our Mrs Reynolds" -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
