{"id":810,"date":"2014-12-24T21:05:01","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T19:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joke-archives.com\/fun\/?p=810"},"modified":"2014-12-24T21:05:01","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T19:05:01","slug":"protecting-a-floppy-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/?p=810","title":{"rendered":"Protecting a Floppy Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"
Note – This was originally for floppy drives, but it also applies to optical drives (CD ROMs!)<\/div>\n

One day while returning to my desk after a routine call, one of our blonde female employees flagged me down and asked for help.<\/p>\n

“My floppy drive won’t work, can you help me?”<\/p>\n

I told her I’d take a look and proceeded over to her machine, where I found shredded up clear plastic Baggie-like stuff hanging out of her 3.5″ floppy drive.<\/p>\n

While I spent the next 20 minutes getting her disk out and digging out the plastic, I noticed two guys in the corner of the office trying awful hard to keep a straight face. Suspecting some mischief, I asked her how the plastic got into the drive.<\/p>\n

“Oh, you mean the condom!”<\/p>\n

“Condom???”<\/p>\n

“Yes, John and Dave over there told me to always put a condom on my disk before inserting it, to prevent catching viruses.”<\/p>\n

By this point John and Dave were roaring and it was all I could do to keep from joining them. The “condom” turned out to be a standard 3.5″ plastic sleeve. I delicately explained to her that a practical joke had been played and she shouldn’t do that anymore, then she asked in a dead-serious voice:<\/p>\n

“Does that mean I don’t have to stroke it ten times or blow on it either?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Note – This was originally for floppy drives, but it also applies to optical drives (CD ROMs!) One day while returning to my desk after a routine call, one of our blonde female employees flagged me down and asked for help. “My floppy drive won’t work, can you help me?” I told her I’d take […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpmdr_menu":1,"wpmdr_menu_extended":{"individualPostRemove":1,"individualPostRemoveDate":1,"individualPostRemoveAuthor":1,"individualPostYoastRemovePublished":1,"individualPostYoastRemoveModified":1},"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[249,406,1186],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","tag-blonde","tag-computer","tag-prank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}