I know this doesn't really go along with the serious nature of Thursdays around here, but this just never fails to make me chuckle and today I've actually been giggling about it quite a bit.
In gmail I have various and sundry contacts listed and it shows their availability for gmail chat if they too are gmail users. Gmail also allows you to set a status under your name that all your contacts will see - so you can set yourself as busy and then put "Working!" or you can set yourself as available to chat and put "Bored stiff...help!" Or some such. It is a good idea to remember that the number of characters that can be seen is somewhat limited, probably to around 20.
So one of my uncles is a gmail user and seems to log in and just leave his window open while he's doing this that and the other, so most of the time his listing looks like the following:
Sleepybeth's Uncle
trying to get some...
2 days ago
Oh gee. Too funny!!! :)
ReplyDeleteHeh. That wouldn't be the uncle that I know, would it be? Because, um, there are certain things I'd rather not know, you know? ;-)
ReplyDeleteGwynne, it would be the uncle you know. :)
ReplyDeleteIf you hover over it you can see it really says "Trying to get some work done" but it still just makes me chuckle.
That's hilarious! :-)
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