Computer Enthusiast Gifts

Do you really think you'll ever be smarter than me.

STRIP Hambone: "System been down long?"

STRIP Hambone: Over charged on a repair bill

"I want one that detects intrusions by hackers, then blows their computers to bits!"

Library - 'Books, Flo - when did we stop doing them?'

'No, I wasn't daydreaming. I froze and you called on me while I was restarting.'

Doing the accounts

'Isn't that cute? -- It remembers you from last time.'

'The cat's away... So what!?'

Common misunderstandings at the office

Father Christmas delivering a PC.

"At least you have taste when it comes to your computer's wallpaper."

'I've told you before Simkins. Don't act like a know it all to the customers.'

'I guess this is what we get for going to a discount web-page designer.'

"Sorry, closed today. Our humans are down."

"He's young and eager to change the world, but I'd be happy if he'd just change his underwear."

"A relative?"

"I keep forgetting. When do I cluck and when do I double-cluck?"

"Someday, the people who know how to use computers will rule over those who don't."

The Downsizing Continues

'Sorry, Tommy, our computer can't play today - it's got a virus!'

Essex computer.

STRIP Hambone: Number cruncher

'I never knew there was a green crayon font.'

'Defrag me! Make my day!'

'Sorry, Professor Kleinzweck -- your 'Chaos Theory' program just crashed.'

"Regardless of your political persuasion, Ed, you've got to left click."

'Don't just stand there - hit the escape key.'

'Freeze, Higgins, and don't make a sound! It's a blinking curson arrow, in the 'delete' mode. One nick from that, my friend, and we're dead men!'

"You know, Fred didn't have that hump until he was always slumped over that computer."

'For goodness sake, hit the escape key.'

'When it develops a problem which part of it should I beat on?'

You know, I was your age once when I was 30.

"Don't worry Mac, I'll have that happy face back in no time."

"Oops - I think I hit 'enter.'"