… so it doesn’t poop all over your office

Date:June 27, 2006 / year-entry #215
Tags:non-computer
Orig Link:https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060627-45/?p=30713
Comments:    14
Summary:The other day I caught a fragment of a conversation, namely somebody concluding a sentence with the clause "... so it doesn't poop all over your office". I don't know what they were talking about and I'm not sure I want to find out. (Ry Jones thinks I was the victim a game of tomato...

The other day I caught a fragment of a conversation, namely somebody concluding a sentence with the clause "... so it doesn't poop all over your office".

I don't know what they were talking about and I'm not sure I want to find out.

(Ry Jones thinks I was the victim a game of tomato funeral. I'm not convinced; it was a conversation that I had been drifting in and out of at the lunch table. I just picked a bad time to drift back in.)


Comments (14)
  1. Neal C says:

    My favorite is the one that Lewis Black brings up in his show.

    "If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college."

    (Search this page for ‘horse’ to get the whole bit: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lewis_Black)

  2. Joe says:

    I’ve recently walked into an elevator to be greeted by "That’s what he gets for sleeping with h…ers." Quite off color, but also on topic.

    By the w ay, I would bet your conversation had to do with a diaper for a dog or monkey.

  3. ::wendy:: says:

    My money’s on mice.  They tend to be locationally generative when it comes to pooping.  We don’t make scalable ‘restrooms’ for mice to utilize.  They may be frightened into pooping by their mechanical counterparts…

  4. Stu says:

    Why do I get the feeling that this has something to do with the XP search dog?

  5. Stu says:

    Why do I get the feeling that this has something to do with the XP search dog?

  6. Brian says:

    I’m guessing Steve Balmer

  7. Jorge Coelho says:

    Pet Rabbits. They poop all over the place, and I believe Americans love them as pets. In Europe, we just eat them. :-)

  8. That one Ian guy says:

    I’m gonna go for code.  So it doesn’t poop all over your office seems like an interesting way to say "so it doesn’t break and cause lots of noise."

  9. 8 says:

    Or it could be that other MS-Office dog… Maybe someone told someone else to disable it………

  10. Will says:

    Clippy?

  11. jeffdav says:

    Well, I’m pretty sure I was part of this conversation, but I don’t remember what we were talking about now.  It was either children or actual pets, I think.

  12. Wang-Lo says:

    A nine mile walk is no joke, especially in the rain. –Harry Kemelman

  13. WendyHome says:

    there is a basic human need to express poop whether in the office,  on a mountain or in a tiny room on out of sight of the adoring public.  Accept it.  Poop happens

  14. Vijay says:

    Tomato funeral sounds fun :)

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