Dogs And Computers: Same Or Different?

"Dogs And Computers: Same Or Different?"

   Favorite Food
   Dogs: kibbles
   Computers: bits

   Method used to end undesirable behavior
   Dogs: hit with rolled up newspaper
   Computers: hit control-alt-delete

After destruction of personal property
   Dogs: dog not found
   Computers: file not found

Favorite trick
   Dogs: roll over
   Computers: play dead

Comic-page hero
   Dogs: Dogbert
   Computers: Dilbert

Fun way to mess with their heads
   Dogs: peanut butter on roof of mouth
   Computers: peanut butter in CD-ROM drive

Consequence of virus
   Dogs: replace valuable carpeting
   Computers: replace valuable data

Widely ignored government mandate
   Dogs: leash law
   Computers: Communications Decency Act

Waste disposal tool
   Dogs: pooper-scooper
   Computers: uninstaller

Sensitive internal procedures
   Dogs: must be undertaken by fully qualified
   professional
   Computers: may be undertaken by that guy at
   work who fixed one kind of like this once

Method of marking territory
   Dogs: lifting leg
   Computers: "Designed for Windows XP"

Unique behavior
   Dogs: lick and drag
   Computers: click-and-drag

Inexplicable physical feature
   Dogs: declaw
   Computers: scroll lock key

Estimated lifespan
   Dogs: 12 years
   Computers: 12 months

At end of useful life
   Dogs: euthanasia
   Computers: tax deduction
Received on Tue Jan 18 08:39:07 2005