geek humor
from this month's Intercomm magazine:

i give to you, the VCR clock programming instructions in the style of famous novelists, contributed by STC (society for technical communicators) members. tech writers are DAMN funny. i now have proof.

some excerpts:

j.d. salinger: "But I probably have to give you every goddamn step or you'll nag the hell out of me... Anyway, go to menu item 4 for Chrissake and follow the instructions on the stupid Clock Set screen."

raymond chandler: "She had the prettiest blue eyes I've seen, and when she spoke, tingles ran down my neck. 'To set the VCR clock,' she said softly, 'first press the remote's Menu button.' A red-tipped finger lingered near that lucky button and the sweat on my brow went cold."

and my favorite...

anthony burgess: "If viddying that gloopy twelve twelve twelve twelve disturbs your spatchka, O my brothers, you can put on dark otchkies, or follow this soviet to set the raz: Oatsie-bye the Menu knopka on the remote vesh; poke jittery for Clock Set. The Clock Set screen will privodeet you through the rest. You may be sure, my droogies, that your gentle narrator would govoreet in bugatty detail about the contents of the Clock Set screen, had the grahzney engineers made up their malenky rossoodocks about it in time for publication. As it is, you'll have to smot for yourselves."