Comments on: Mom, my flash drive is missing!

By: oi

oi — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:29:56 +0000

@ wright1

By: nunavut guy

nunavut guy — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 15:29:15 +0000

To see a live version of this, tune into “Urban Legends” evenings on CTV.

By: Edwina the Defrocked Nun

Edwina the Defrocked Nun — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:27:57 +0000

Friends have told me a tale of woe about a grad student who lost her dissertation when her computer was stolen. I was supposed to evince compassion for the victim, but that’s hard to do when your only thought is “How did she get to the dissertator stage without learning about backing up your work?”

By: Who? Me?

Who? Me? — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 07:34:15 +0000

I love that these two completely different world-views existed side-by-side on the same bulletin board for a moment in time.

And now you have: the rest of the story.

By: Sabine

Sabine — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 02:52:27 +0000

Uh oh. Someone turned the sweater “into” the lost and found. Snape must have had a potion for that.

By: wright1

wright1 — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 00:36:16 +0000

No, but you sure deserve “Word” Of The Day for that meta-commentary. +1 for Xmas, oi!

By: Odious

Odious — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 23:29:11 +0000

I don’t get how somebody read this and thought “mother” either.

By: Randy

Randy — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:13:36 +0000

I saw your pictures on that flash drive. I cant believe they sold YOUR FAT ASS a crotch-less swimsuit. Put something suitable on from now on bitch.

By: sdedit

sdedit — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:09:42 +0000

When I was in college, someone left a sweater hanging in the dorm’s laundry room for like a month before someone finally turned it into the lost-and-found at the front desk. My roommate’s cheap-assed boyfriend worked at the front desk, and when no one claimed the sweater after another 30 days, he wrapped it up and gave it to my roommate as a “Christmas gift.” Sure enough, the first time she wore it, some girl confronted her and accused her of stealing it. It turned into a big, nasty thing. The “crime victim” got a bunch of other girls together, and they hassled my roommate relentlessly. They reported her to both the dorm RA and the campus police. It was a massive – and completely unnecessary – headache.

Bottom line, people who keep track of their shit in the first place tend to get a lot less stuff “stolen.”

By: tvelociraptor

tvelociraptor — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 21:35:16 +0000

As an undergrad I remember seeing a posting in the student paper by someone who’d had their backpack stolen – the thief could keep the laptop, but please turn the flash drive in to campus security.

By: Divvitar

Divvitar — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 21:30:17 +0000

Allright, Mr. Assange! Hands off my flashdrive!

By: Colt

Colt — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 20:49:31 +0000

divaandwriter works at a university. Uh-oh, I see that was already established above. Stand back, everyone, I’ve duplicated information and the consequences are coming!

By: lulz

lulz — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 20:42:58 +0000

That flash drive was fucking delicious.

By: Zorin

Zorin — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:09:49 +0000

“IF ANY INFORMATION IS DUPLICATED THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES”

This is a great way to get people to want to look at the data more than they otherwise would.