Let it be known that food will no longer be let near my desk! Well, at least when held by my friend. Anyway, to skip right to the point, you know that garlic sauce you get when you order Papa Johns Pizza? Yup, all over my keyboard. I had to spend about an hour taking it apart, poping most the keys off, wiping it down, and it still kinda smells like garlic. At least it's clean though, and it works. Last night after I had just finished cleaning it, it was partly working in that I had notepad open and testing all the keys, and when I pressed the right shift button, it just popped up a diamond instead. :/

Works now though.

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The Matrix is not Linux compatible.

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/dis crust in garlic sauce

AGH, YOU MADE ME HUNGRY NOW!!! YOU WHORE!

Why didn't you just lick it off the keyboard?

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Home is behind, the world ahead, and there are many paths to tread. Through shadow, to the edge of night, until the stars are all alight. Mist and shadow, cloud and shade, all shall fade, all shall fade.

Because I can't stick my tongue between the keys?

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The Matrix is not Linux compatible.

Then suck it out.

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Home is behind, the world ahead, and there are many paths to tread. Through shadow, to the edge of night, until the stars are all alight. Mist and shadow, cloud and shade, all shall fade, all shall fade.

A few months ago I was in the process of cleaning out my keyboard. I would pop off keys and vaccuum under them. I accidentally vaccuumed up my V key. I was sad . Luckily I managed to dig it back out and clean it off.

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My keyboard...

Mmm yummy isn't it? It actually works good though.

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I spilled a little ginger ale on mine a little while ago, but it still works fine.

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I have a signature.

I've spilled lemonaide in mine twice. It took lots of paper towels stuck between the keys to get it all out.

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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right." -Isaac Asimov

I'm proud to say that over my 9 years of constant computer use, I have never spilt a thing in my keyboard.

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"The future is not determined by a throw of the dice, but is determined by the conscious decisions of you and me."
I am addicted to ellipses!!! AHHH!!! ...

According to an article I read a little while ago, keyboards have surpased door handles as one of the dirtiest household items.

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Not suprising. I don't even want to know what's under my keys

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

^ Lice! Fleas!! Vermon!!!

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"Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend." - Proverbs 27:17

The Giant Internet IC Masturbator - Index of IC pinouts
Catalog of Electronic Components - Complete IC data sheets
National Electrical Code (NEC) Online - Don't do wiring without consulting it. OR ELSE!

When I moved to Cairns we cleaned my keyboard when we unpacked.....I hadn't cleaned it...well..ever.

I was astonished. We found like 5 tonnes of cat hair under all the keys...my old cat used to like climbing over my keyboard/PC to annoy me. It was so strange, it just kept coming out just when we thought there was no more.

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Corrupting the kiddies since '97

My parents are the only ones allowed to have food/drink near the computer. So if there's food in it, we all know who to blame . Sometimes, when I think too hard, I drool (a lot) on the keyboard and it gets inbetween the keys and it's hell to clean up w/o messing up what I'm typing.

At school, there was this yellow fuzzy(?) thingie "growing" under my numpad. I had to take the keys off because SOMEONE made it like this
instead of this It was driving me insane!

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I am Darth Slaw.
The Dark Lord of the Sith,
And part of the Nightfire mod team

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I split Coke in keyboard a few years back and had to clean it out. It was fun.

That keyboard never seemed to be clean, you could always see lint, hair, and other things not good to have in between you keys. The keyboard I have now doesn't seem to a have that problem. At least as bad.

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"Church, women are like Voltron, the more you can hook up, the better it gets!"
-Tucker
Red vs Blue

Ph34r t3h Cute Ones

I'm too lazy to clean my keyboard...I'll just get a cover when I get a new keyboard

*sigh* I broke my keyboard recently... It happened like this. I was up late one night (it was probably around 3am, which is typical for me) working on an essay for school. As is my tendancy, I had the keyboard on my lap and was typing away, enjoying myself, when suddenly, I became aware of a pressure in my bladder. I set the keyboard down on the floor in front of me, and stood up to make for the bathroom, in order that I might relieve myself. However, as I stood and took a step out of my room, my foot caught on the keyboard's cord, ripping it rather forcibly from the back of my computer, and causing me to trip and fall to the ground. I quickly got up and ran to to the bathroom. However, upon my return, I realized that I'd actually broken the keyboard's plug in half. Part of it was still stuck into the back of my computer. Alas, it was quite a sobering experience. That keyboard had been one of my favorites ever (the only exception being the one I had for my old 286 (dang that thing had good action) which unfortunately has the old style of plug and won't fit into standard keyboard ports). I am now forced to use a rather crappy keyboard that will occaisionally screw up and cause a multitude of problems (ie, sending the computer into "sleep mode" at random times, just plain not working at all, or occaisionally deciding to spam the flood room (or any essays I happen to be working on) with something along the lines of A
A
A
A
A
A
A
etc...). When this happens, I am forced to unplug, and replug the keyboard into the computer, at which time, the keyboard will either work, or not (which would require that I try the unplugging method again until it does work).

*sigh* I miss my old keyboard.

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Tia mi aven Moridin isainde vadin
http://www.writings-emag.net The next big thing since individually wrapped cheese slices (coming soon).

Chat quote from the last time i spilled Mt Dew on my keyboard, and i am guessing some circuits got connected from the liquid:



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There are two asses in Massassi... and I'm one of them.
The Matrix Unplugged|The Valley of the Jedi Tower|Smaug's Lair

i have a mini keyboard vaccuum

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Drugs & Stupidity, Tons of it.

Cleaning keyboards is actually rather easy... Given you have a set of de-magnitized screwdrivers... Use the flathead to remove the keys easily, and the philips to removes the casing (in case something got inside). Be careful if you open it up, though: the circuits are easily ruined, especially considering most keyboard circuits consist of a few sheets of thin plastic, with hyper-thin copper ribbons embedded in them.

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Nes digs around in the trash can.
Nes finds a hamburger!
Nes puts the hamburger in his backpack.

You can find adapters to use the old plugs on new PCs nearly anywhere. I know Radio Shack has em, along with MicroCenter, Circuit City, and a few others. Takes a serial (Big round thing with a bunch of large pins, called a serial plug) and changes it into a PS/2 plug which most PCs use nowadays (smaller round plug with smaller pins). You don't lose any functionality, unless it has some funky keys you don't see anymore, like P#s, F13+, etc.

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"The future is not determined by a throw of the dice, but is determined by the conscious decisions of you and me."
I am addicted to ellipses!!! AHHH!!! ...

Yeah I spilt coke into my fav keyboard ever. It had programable buttons that you could create macros with. I had a ctrl-alt-del button . Also the numpad turned into a calculator when you pressed a button, had a little screen on the keyboard. Man I miss that thing, RIP.

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You can leave a dirty keyboard soaking in a bucket of water for several hours, then leave it out to dry for a few days and it will not only function correctly again but will be relativly clean.

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Team Battle.

Rubbing alcohol is also good to use as it disinfects and dries quickly. I have packaged alcohol swabs that I use on my keyboard every couple of months or so.

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Wow, that is almost an exact duplicate of my old PC that my dad uses now.

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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

You mean with the letters in the same order, and a windows key. WOW.

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http://www.sporkaudio.com

Take a bin, place it upon the floor and turn your keyboard over above it - enough skin and other dead nastiness will drop out to make a clone of yourself.

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We are all dying to live, yet living to die...

If you take the keys out you can spell things.

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Shut up. I'm GOING to do this whether you like it or not.

Back in high school, I used to do sound and lights for the plays. One year, someone gave us an old pc to mess around with... But we could'nt get the actresses off it, they were always all lined up to 'check their email and just send a quick message to a friend on AIM.' Rather than password protect it via the screensaver or something similar (they were always begging us to take it off) we came up with an ingenious idea. We spraypainted the keyboard so you couldnt read the letters. None of them could touch-type, but we all could. It worked great, they stoped using the computer because they kept getting annoyed at having to hunt for the keys.

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