Ya, well I was checking out Massassi while drinking a Dr. Pepper, and I went to go get a CD on my desk (which is unreasonably messy) and pushed a bunch of junk and it accidentally hit the Dr. Pepper and almost hit my computer, just missed it by about and inch. So I cleaned it up.


I am not sure what damage it might have caused if it did land on it, but I don't want to find out.

SO does anyone else have a near-computer destroying story?


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Signatures are overrated.

"You can run but you will only die tired."

In the computer woould have been worse than on. Might want to clean up your desk.

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

M kebord is stky frm soa

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Gondor has no pants.
Gondor needs no pants.

I've had a pc struck by lightning....and once my dad spilled pepsi on the numpad of our old keyboard.


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If everyone in the world were smart There would be no stupid people.

Pfft... who do you think that you're kidding? You know you will!

My keyboard is supposed to have this special "spill-resistant" stuff. I'd rather not try and test it out...

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Only To Keep The Public Happy

ARGH, I just typed out a whole post, and I hit "clear fields" instead of "submit reply"... son of a *****. It was a good post too, but I dont wanna type it out again.

BTW, there is a bunch of hair and food crumbs and gunk building up in my keyboard... does that count?

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"Guns don't kill people, I kill people."

I once pulled yanked my p4 2.6 GHz out of it's socket without disengaging it while removing the heatsink... it was bonded with the thermal paste. Then, I put it back in without new thermal paste and the thing overheated to 167 degrees farenheit.

Yes, it does work.

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Yes Mystic0, that's around 70 degrees C so the processor should still run. I know the AMDs are rated for around 70 C...but I wouldn't trust it.

<.<
>.>

*takes sip*



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Signatures are overrated.

"You can run but you will only die tired."

I once touched the mainboard in my television while it was plugged in. My friends think that's what's wrong with me. :/

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Ispilledsomesodaonmykeyboard.Nowthespacebardoesn'twork...




Touching the board probly wouldnt hurt you.... However, ripping off a capacitor and sticking it to your tongue would hurt.

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The future is here, and all bets are off.

Damn, the first time in months I have a soda with me at the computer, this is the thread that greets me to the discussion forum.

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Have a good one,
Freelancer

I kncked a glass of coke onto the power circut of my computer. Also I knocked a glass of coke onto my cellphone and it got completely drenched.

Surprisingly no damage was done on both occasions.

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Nightfire Mod

This is really really sad:

I’ve done exactly that...

I’ve actually use the "taste test" on circuit board capacitors before to see if they were holding a charge. I’ve only done it on the small ones, because I’ve actually touched some of the larger ones, and those hurt when its just your hand that brushes against them...


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"Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad, but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either
condition."... G. K. Chesterton

“questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself”

Another thing i did was drop a memory card (console) into a cup of water.

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Signatures are overrated.

"You can run but you will only die tired."

I once managed touch the inside of my power supply while the PC was on. That was fun.

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There is no spoon.

My friend got a tiny little bit of soda inside his computer and it completely fried his motherboard, and a few other things. I laughed at him.

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WOOSH.
-----@%

My keyboard is about 15 years old (I think it was originally white!)

I've dropped it on the floor more times than I can remember. I've dropped it down stairs once. I've spilled water or other liquids on it numerous times, including a whole glass at one point.

It still works as if it were new.

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When bread becomes toast, it can never go back to being bread again.

I've spilt soda over my computer desk quite a few times. One time in particular was quite bad. I used to have a desk with a slide-out keyboard tray. I used to just sit my soda next to the keyboard on the tray, and one time I accidently kicked my leg up and into the bottom of the tray, sending the can into the air. That was much fun to clean up.

And I've shocked myself many times with the capacitors used in camera flashes. And once got a nasty shock from a VCR while I was repairing it. I sort of.. forgot to unplug it.

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"When all else fails, eat pie."
-¬thoughts from beyond observance

[This message has been edited by Jin (edited January 29, 2004).]

Oops

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

I've had to buy a new keyboard after I was typing with a wound in the palm of my hand (didn't even notice it!) and the center of my keybord didn't funbction anymore.

besides, who'd want a white/red keyboard?!

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Farewell, MaDaVentor. In our hearts, you'll always live on.

Once spilt half a can of beer over my keyboard. At the time I was more upset about the beer.

Keyboard didn't not work, rather it worked a bit TOO well. If you ever want a stream of random characters at a very high rate, I suggest this method.

Took the keyboard to bits, dried out the sheets inside, put it back together and it was as good as new.

This was the same evening as another guy was lobbing junk CDs I used as coasters around the room. Nearly destroyed my monitor with one.

To think that the first thing that made me think of was JavaScript. Bleh...

My sister spilled Orange Juice on my parents' keyboard (promptly dissasembled and cleaned it, it was fine).
Later, she spilled root beer on my printer (it's fine).
A friend nearly saw a cup of DP go through the fan on the top of his case (the holder of the cup nearly died).
I knocked over a cup of DP that was sitting atop my case, it splashed through the fan on the side panel (shut the comp off, checked everything, let it dry... it's fine).

All of these have been dropped more than once each, and still work quite well ('cept for the keyboard, it died on it's own). Computer hardware seems quite resilient, no?

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Cynic (sin'ik) n. One of a sect of ancient Greek philosophers who held that virtue is the ultimate goal of life, their doctrine gradually coming to symbolize insolent self-righteousness.

Drink So-Be, and play longer!

i dont use a glass.

score

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Drugs & Stupidity, Tons of it.

I once spilt pure orange juice into my Amiga. It still worked.

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Yeah, but you know what? This one, this one right here, this was my dream, my wish, and it didn't come true. So I'm takin' it back. I'm takin' 'em all back.

Missed your dex throw, eh?

I spilt a large glass of root beer by my computer. Now my surge-protector's button sticks a little when you push it on/off, and my "gel pad for the wrist" thing is stained.

Everything still works, but it was a little scary at first, when the outlet holes started to sizzle a little.

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Steal my dreams and sell them back to me.....

A few days ago, I spilt a whole mug of tea over my desk. I managed to save the keyboard! But the mouse was nearly submerged. I cleaned it off with water, cleaned out the optical bit and it still works fine.

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WARNING: THIS POST MAY CONTAIN TRACES OF PEANUT!!!
---@%

Orange juice; does an Amiga good!

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The future is here, and all bets are off.

After typing, I need to manipulate a crowbar with my teeth in order to pry my fingers from my soda-sticky keyboard.

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GhostOfYoda - General doer of stuff.

You seriously need to be careful. If you're visiting massassi at the time you spill soda on your computer, you could seriously short out our server.


[This message has been edited by Brian (edited January 29, 2004).]

What colour is it now? My old keyboard used to be white and after 5 years its now a dingy (word?) yellow. I didn't even notice until I saw my new keyboard.



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[=-"The hardest thing is to forgive, but God does;
Even if you murdered or robbed, years wrong, but God loves;
Take one step toward him, he takes two toward you;
Even when all else fail, God supports you." - Nas-=]

LOL, same with the keyboard on my dad's PC. It started of as a light gray color, but is now darker gray and has tons of grime between the keys....

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Kids must be shot by Monday.

Honesty tests for workers can't be trusted, report says.

Psychopaths are unpredictable.

Jay Leno's Headlines > Everything

Heh... I love the efficiency.. nice sign too...



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Fragment Thoughts consume my vision.

That looks like my server room.

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The future is here, and all bets are off.

Everyone knows about sunny d right? And when there is a bit left, you drink it straight from the bottle right? And every now and then you put the cap on and shake it RIGHT? Right. Well. Let's just say little Glyde here forgot to put that danged cap back on when he shook the large half full bottle. Don't worry. I used a rusty compass to pry off every key and clean the insides. then put the keys back on. That gave me a very evil idea for one of the class computers.. Say you tried to type "My name is Ben." You'd get (for those computer illiterate people) "It wils be osw"

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<Glyde> but.. you can't pick pickled peppers, even if a pickled pepper picker could pick pickled peppers!

Hm, I once ran a little qbasic program called "remline" and typed in windows on my dads old 486. As it turns out, the program erased ever line in the computer with the string 'windows' in it. You can probobly gueessed what happened. (I was about 10)

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I spilled soda on my keyboard once. It was a good keyboard. I didnt do anything about it and just let it sink in. 2 hours later, it didnt work. It would keep pressing its own buttons and one time it tried to call dell support on line (im guessing because that's one of the buttons). I couldn't type with it anymore so it was trash. Now ive got a really crappy keyboard. 4 weeks later I went to my grandma's house and spilt sprite on her computer. I did actually do something this time though so it is fine but the point is that I was stupid enough to bring drinks near a comp again.

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*Remnant Temple beta almost done*
Light And Darkness

Smooth. Just don't share the program, might tempt me to use it on my old computer. Frelling WinME.


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