Turkish Delight
A long time ago I was working in a research unit at a prestigious British university while doing my PhD. We all used to use a single printer which involved saving your work on a floppy disk and walking over to the machine with the printer attached. One weekend I wired every PC in the lab to an automatic switch box and connected it to the printer.

Monday morning I send a print job from my machine at the other side of the room and the printer magically bursts into life. A young Turkish student who was visiting had his desk right next to the printer, he jumped up from his chair and wanted to know what was happening. I told him it worked by infra-red waves and he had to move out of the way so the signal could get through.

For six months everyone in the lab made the guy stand up and move every time anyone wanted to print something. People from all over the university used to come to watch this ...
(iamdrdee *The more we are sober, the less we are free*, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 20:53, 2 replies)

Heheh!
Wonder how long after he twigged
( LemonEntryMyDearWatson This time, Moriarty, the hand is on the other foot, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 21:19, closed)

Its stories like this
That make me realise I'm not alone in the world.

*click*
(EvilMeister, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 21:34, closed)