How do you spell "google?"

[Mer-Mer]

I was at my favourite video game store, and the phone rang while I was standing at the counter. One of the guys answered it. This is the conversation I heard:
"You need the password to the internet? You mean your router?...I don't have the password to the internet...Well, do you have an account? If you google it, you can get to the website to create one...Google.com...You need me to spell google? okay, G...no, G. As in girl...No, there's no d in girl...Okay, are you ready? G...o...o...g, as in girl...l...e. Okay. You're there? Okay, now put in your email address. No, I don't know what your email address is. No, it's not google...okay, you found your email address? Now you have to put in a password. No, I don't need to know your password. No, please don't tell me. Okay. Now you need a username. No, you have to come up with one...No, it can't be google...No you make it. Not me. I don't know what it should be. Just think of something..."

[PepperElf]

you know i'm reminded of the story about someone telling the customer to box the computer up and take it back because "you're too stupid to use a computer"


i think it was a fake story but... there ARE people out there who qualify to make it real

[MoonCat]

you know i'm reminded of the story about someone telling the customer to box the computer up and take it back because "you're too stupid to use a computer"


i think it was a fake story but... there ARE people out there who qualify to make it real

Yes. I talk to some of them every week. I'll be the first to tell you that I know almost nothing about how computers work...but at least I know the difference between an email address and a website address! And yet every week I have to try to explain to a customer how to either (a) get to our website or (b) send us an email, and usually (c) why they are not the same.

[Pixilated]

If you Google 'computer stupidities', you will find a website with absolutely hilarious (and some barely-believable) stories about people and their computers. After reading them for a while I feel like the ultimate geek.

[Miss Maple Leaf]

G-O-O-G-O-L. There. I've spelled Googol for you. No need to thank me.

Note: I apologize for the geeky math humour in the above sentence. I just couldn't resist.

[dalesys]

G-O-O-G-O-L. There. I've spelled Googol for you. No need to thank me.

Not near enough 0's.
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

[Miss Maple Leaf]

Not near enough 0's.
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

Okay, smartass, show me what a googolplex is then.

Have fun!

[dalesys]

Okay, smartass, show me what a googolplex is then.

Have fun!

Got your bit bucket ready for when your PC its guts out?

[DGoddessChardonnay]

If you Google 'computer stupidities', you will find a website with absolutely hilarious (and some barely-believable) stories about people and their computers. After reading them for a while I feel like the ultimate geek.

Sweetheart, my DOG is a ultimate geek compared to some of those folks.

There again, if some of those atrocities had been committed by someone who's supposed to be a geek . . . even better in my book.

'Cause it just goes to show you there is a fine line between genius and stupidity.

[Argus]

Okay, smartass, show me what a googolplex is then.

Have fun!

Google Campus2 cropped [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)), by Sebastian Bergmann (originally posted to Flickr as Google Campus), from Wikimedia Commons

[Miss Maple Leaf]

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Touché. I do believe we have a new smartass champion around here. Sorry dalesys.

Got your bit bucket ready for when your PC its guts out?

Sure, if your fingers don't fall off first.

[Andara Bledin]

Sure, if your fingers don't fall off first.

C&P makes that a trivial task.

^-.-^

[Miss Maple Leaf]

C&P makes that a trivial task.

^-.-^

Sure, if you want to do it the easy way.