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fuzzyman
January 28, 2002 2:12 PM

One day a friend called me from Texas. He was having a problem running BattleChess on his Macintosh. "It keeps telling me that the program must be run from a hard disk!"

"Well," I asked, "Did you drag the program from the floppy disk icon to the hard disk icon?"

"Why should I do that?" he barked in frustration, "The disk it came on is hard!"

The theme of this contest is technical support. It can be about computer technical support, support for making your VCR work, or anything else. Use your imagination. As long as someone in the strip is giving or receiving tech support. It can be in person, on the phone... or some other method I can't imagine.
Since everyone isn't in the support business, you aren't limited to strips about stupid users. Bad tech support is also a good arena for jokes. Or anything else you can think of, as long as it's about tech support.
Bonus points for strips about tech support for really strange, bizarre, twisted items.
More bonus points if it's funny.
Multiple entries are allowed, but not series. If you can't say it in 3 panels (or 6 with the splitter), I don't want to know about it.
Demerits for in-jokes. I'm as guilty as anyone, but try to make the strip funny to someone who is visiting stripcreator for the first time.
No Photoshop entries this round.

Judging will take place on Wednesday night around 10:00pm SC time. Possibly an hour earlier if West Wing is a repeat.

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Haxx0r_K1ng January 28, 2002 2:46 PM	54385
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NeoVid January 28, 2002 3:04 PM	54389 Yes, true story.
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TheElPaso January 28, 2002 3:26 PM	54393 Yeah, I'll do a better one tomorrow.
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TheBlairZip January 28, 2002 3:31 PM	54395 I'll do better, I promise.
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kaufman January 28, 2002 5:32 PM	This isn't funny, but I've been living it the past few weeks. 54402
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dcomposed January 28, 2002 5:45 PM	I know, in joke, but I couldnt resist. 54403
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wirthling January 28, 2002 5:56 PM	I don't know if this one exactly fits here, but it was inspired by an unsatisfactory tech support/customer service experience... 31065
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wirthling January 28, 2002 6:16 PM	Here's one, for what it's worth... 54407
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crabby January 28, 2002 8:21 PM	54415
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fpd January 28, 2002 8:58 PM	54420
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Spankling January 28, 2002 9:40 PM	54426
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Kevin_Keegans_Perm January 28, 2002 10:50 PM	54436
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Kevin_Keegans_Perm January 28, 2002 10:55 PM	Or We Could try 54439
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Kevin_Keegans_Perm January 28, 2002 11:02 PM	And since im on a roll .... or a downward spiral. 54443
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KajunFirefly January 28, 2002 11:09 PM	54444
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lemur68 January 29, 2002 12:04 AM	54446 Please disregard the duplicate comic preceeding this one. This is why we don't enter the title before we finish the comic lest the cat walk across the keyboard causing you to save it.
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deucepm January 29, 2002 2:01 AM	Demerit me. I found it amusing. 54450 Had to redo this one. Ironic, isn't it?
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Jabizo January 29, 2002 6:20 AM	54460
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AntimatterSwirl January 29, 2002 6:22 AM	54461
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kaufman January 29, 2002 6:43 AM	54463
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wirthling January 29, 2002 7:40 AM	quote: This is why we don't enter the title before we finish the comic lest the cat walk across the keyboard causing you to save it. I must try to remember that excuse.
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kaufman January 29, 2002 7:59 AM	quote: quote: This is why we don't enter the title before we finish the comic lest the cat walk across the keyboard causing you to save it. I must try to remember that excuse. I made the obvious tribute: http://www.stripcreator.com/view.php?ID=54470
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fpd January 29, 2002 8:53 AM	54480
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kaufman January 29, 2002 9:50 AM	54484
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wirthling January 29, 2002 10:48 AM	54494
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kaufman January 29, 2002 11:41 AM	54506
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israphael January 29, 2002 3:23 PM	54538
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deucepm January 29, 2002 4:43 PM	Based on a true story. 54550
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BigEvilDan January 29, 2002 5:19 PM	54554
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dcomposed January 29, 2002 5:34 PM	54556
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BigEvilDan January 29, 2002 6:36 PM	54568 54572 Not an entry (the demerits would kill it), but I don't think this could be allowed to slip by... 54574
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fuzzyman January 29, 2002 7:02 PM	Almost makes me sorry about the in-jokes rule.
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kaufman January 29, 2002 7:23 PM	quote: Almost makes me sorry about the in-jokes rule. Funny, I thought malfunctioning turbines were the reason for the in-joke rule. Or was it malfunctioning red robots? Anyway, Dan, that's why I created the "Not an Entry" thread in Read My Damn Comics -- as a repository for the illegal entries you still had to create.
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dcomposed January 29, 2002 7:30 PM	54566 a veriation of a classic comic
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fuzzyman
January 29, 2002 8:02 PM

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Funny, I thought malfunctioning turbines were the reason for the in-joke rule.

Or was it malfunctioning red robots?

I thought I would level the playing field for anyone just arriving at stripcreator who wants to enter the contest. In-jokes tend to favor the regulars, and I was pretty frustrated by it all when I got here. I made myself a promise early on that if I ever won one of these things, I'd ban the in-jokes.

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fpd January 29, 2002 8:39 PM	54590
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skagg January 30, 2002 8:59 AM	quote: 54566 a veriation of a classic comic you cock smoker 49754
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TheElPaso January 30, 2002 11:51 AM	54643
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kaufman January 30, 2002 12:10 PM	54644
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kaufman January 30, 2002 12:29 PM	54646
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djsparkydog January 30, 2002 1:50 PM	54493
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skagg January 30, 2002 2:01 PM	aah man, if it wasnt for the typo in soldering and the shitty "[name of person speaking]:" thing then i would absolutely love that comic also if it was russel pointing when he said damn right is it russel i mean?
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andydougan January 30, 2002 2:06 PM	Nope. Tyler.
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djsparkydog
January 30, 2002 2:16 PM

Only three responses to that:
The first:
I did this strip at work two days ago during a 14 hour tech support shift. Spelling was secondary to maintaining life support. I'm lucky I spelled any of it right.

And the second: The customer part says "name of person speaking" because when a voice comes out of the computer it's usually the computer talking in my strip. Look at the main comic and it'll make sense.

Lastly... I've been at my desk so long I can't feel my legs. Someone kill me please.

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wirthling
January 30, 2002 2:31 PM

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The customer part says "name of person speaking" because when a voice comes out of the computer it's usually the computer talking in my strip.

I would have gotten around that 'is it the PC or someone online speaking?' problem by using the phone prop instead of the PC prop. Then again, I suck.

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I've been at my desk so long I can't feel my legs. Someone kill me please.

I'd come kill you but I'm tied to a phone, too. Maybe if I had a wireless headset...

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skagg January 30, 2002 2:36 PM	quote: I'd come kill you but I'm tied to a phone, too. Maybe if I had a wireless headset... i do have one i also have 4 annoying entries which have probably been done already but as is my nature im too lazy to check for them 54659 54660 54661 54662 i feel so cheap but im listening to primus so now i just feel shit at everything i do but able to laugh now i am feeling my penis
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djsparkydog January 30, 2002 2:50 PM	I'm an Earthlink Tier II tech... It just doesn't get anymore low-brow than that... but I am getting paid to sit around and type this... that's kind of comforting.
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boorite January 30, 2002 2:57 PM	12070
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xpac January 30, 2002 4:08 PM	54672
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