Naming Whiz Gifts

"Maybe it wasn't such a cool idea to name the agency after our old band."

"I've just been offered a job sorting out the Y1K bug.."

Frank & Ernie's Diner. Special: Scrabbled Eggs. No, sir, it's not a misprint -- Ernie adds alphabet soup.

Multi-tasking.

Need Supercomputer to finish my PhD, Please Help.

Hamlet's struggle with online shopping addiction. To eBay or not to eBay.

Nerd tryouts.

'This computer has a fast modem, the latest Pentium, increased RAM, a huge hard drive and broadband connections. Only one problem...slow pointer fingers.'

'WE use these computers to gather and organise data for our school district and, on a slow day, to play solitaire.'

"Don’t you eyeball me, Ed! That’s right, look down at the table. Only technicians who remember to back up the data can look at me! And if you start to cry I will fire you!"

"She's a show dog...purebred, of course." "That's great! My guy's a Sanskrit scholar...wrote for the Harvard Lampoon."

'Yep,that's it Mr.White. And NOW go, Control-Alt-Delete, then re-enter.'

'My dog ate my computer.'

GO AHEAD ... MAKE MY DAY!

STRIP Hambone: Workers help is a hindrance

"I hate you! You don't understand me and you don't understand my software!"

'Those enormous worldwide internet communities.'

"Brilliant cover letter, lousy résumé."

"The results are impressive, but it'll be decades before we can transmit and receive pornography."

'...And, from what I understand, they don't have any hard drive at all.'

'I'm afraid you've failed the Turing test.'

"After a long day at the office writing business software...Bob loves to relax writing game software."

Math Teacher

It appears to be some sort of computer virus.

"When they said progress made our replacement inevitable I thought they meant by AI."

'My new browser is so fast I have to take motion sickness pills.'

"I love the fact that you're a computer genius, Erwin. I just don't like fact that you look like one."

Computer making faces behind owner's back.

I've always been slower than computers...

"What's that you're reading?"

You don't have to explain the software to me. I wrote it.

"So we've managed to consolidate all our multinational 24 hour hotline support centres down to one Single Point of Contact... and here he is."

Writing the poem was easy: there are lots of words rhyming with "snow"...

'Hey, everyone! Guess who forgot his password?'

"Are you sure you updated the anti-virus software?"