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taft
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Join Date: Apr 2005
 
2005-08-28, 23:36

The bit about the login password was me, too. That was a real bastard of a prank. I had bought a used iBook off Craigslist in Boston (this was when Jack was going to art school out there.) So, I had him check it out for me, make sure it was legit, pay the guy, and FedEx it to me. Of course, when I got it (at *work* mind you - I was working at a university bookstore at the time), he had changed the login screen and all other possible elements to explicit Elf Porn images. (You know, naked girls with fake elf ears...not sure where he found that stuff...) He had set the password hint to that riddle, "As I sat there calmly sitting, I saw the dead carry the living." So my boss walks by as I'm frantically trying to guess the password, and he thinks the elf porn theme is pretty interesting. For the life of me, I can't figure out the riddle, so I google it in various iterations until I finally come up with an answer. It turns out that a ship - dead trees - carries living men. So, obviously, the answer was "ship" or some other word that meant that. "Ship" didn't work, so I grabbed a thesaurus from a nearby shelf and tried every other word for it I could find. I even tried misspellings. Nothing worked. I tried on and off all day long.

Finally, I called Jack when I got home. Of course, it turned out that he was messing with me (as usual) and the password had nothing whatsoever to do with that riddle.

And now my boss and co-workers thought I was in some kind of Fed-Ex based Elf Porn ring.
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