I was raised in the US by a Japanese mother who spoke to me in English with a few Japanese words thrown in (usually profanity). Hearing her voice now usually makes me switch to the hybrid language of my upbringing. If I talk to her in my adult manner I get the sense she thinks I'm full of BS.

The MS store should sell a Windows 8 to Windows 7 downgrade service. It'd likely help Best Buy sell more Windows machines that are stagnating on the shelf with Windows 8.

The circles of eight letters flashed on the screen included: WARCRAFT, KILLZONE, and ROBOTRON. The losers saw UMADBRO?

Good job! Which insurance company was this?

And after the APU is done processing, it says in a catchy Middle Eastern accent, "THANK YOU, COME AGAIN!"

Parent should be modded Funny not Insightful. Geez moderators, WOOSH over your head.

A little bowl of flat beer in the garden works well on the normal variety of snails and slugs. So to handle these monster snails just set up a few troughs of imperial stout.

Interesting, I left a Very Large Company in the late 90's after having set up a few Solaris 2.x machines for our R&D projects. I had a Quake server running on one of them. There was a lot of incentive to keep that server up.