The Return of Fun With Language

I long for computers to blow up.

No, not really. But on Star Trek, when a computer dies, it dies in a shower of sparks and a satisfying array of booms and bams and puffs of smoke. Whereas in real life, when a computer dies, it just silently and unsatisfyingly goes fffft and ruins your life.

So I mentioned this to a co-worker and she says

“Oh, you should have smelled my senior project.”

There’s a phrase you rarely hear.

3 comments

  1. Evn says:

    When a computer dies in my house, there’s almost always a shower of sparks and an array of booms and bams and puffs of smoke. But it’s all from my boyfriend, i.e. “Evn… what… did… you… download?!

  2. Kathy says:

    Heh.

    Have you ever heard the ‘Click of Death’?

  3. Evn says:

    I’m not as familiar with the ‘Click of Death’ as I am the ‘Click of Fuck’:

    The Computer – “Click.”

    Me – “Fuck.”