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A Spanish teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish, unlike English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine. ''House'' for instance, is feminine: ''la casa.'' ''Pencil,'' however, is masculine: "el lapiz.''
A student asked, ''What gender is 'computer'?''
Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into two groups, male and female, and asked them to decide for themselves whether ''computer'' should be a masculine or a feminine noun.
Each group was asked to give four reasons for its recommendation.
The men's group decided that ''computer'' should definitely be of the feminine gender (''la computer''), because:
1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic;
2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else;
3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for possible later retrieval; and
4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.
(No chuckling... this gets better!)
The women's group, however, concluded that computers should be Masculine (''el computer''), because:
1. In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on;
2. They have a lot of data but still can't think for themselves;
3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they ARE the problem; and
4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had waited a little longer, you could have gotten a newer and better model.
The women won!
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my computer has both female and male traits... when it's working it's little ass off trying to load ten different pages, upload a mb of graphics, and download a new program, all at the same time, an you can hear it's little drive creaking and sluttering, but it still manages to get the job done, and in record time... then it's being female... when it freezes and refuses to do anything, or completely crashes for no apparent reason, then it's being male... |
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Yep, I figure they can be both male and female too. Both ours in Denmark are sons of bitches at times, and sometimes they are right cows! But as for xp.... Utterly mysteriously female and unfathomable in it's behaviour. And SP2 is a bitch! A word of advice - if your pc misbehaves after installing SP2 but was ok before, then uninstall SP2 - you don't need it if you have a decent software firewall. I doubt there'll be any further updates of XP though Microsoft will continue to support it, of course. The next operating system is codenamed 'Longhorn' which sounds rather male to me..... |
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