Where Do Deleted Characters Go?

"Where Do Deleted Characters Go?"*
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Most likely, at least once a day you delete a letter,
number, or even whole words and paragraphs from
your documents on the computer. It's a simple
matter for you, but have you ever thought about
the consequences of your action? Do you have any
idea where you're sending those characters that
you so casually rejected? The answer varies
depending on whom you ask.
 

Dave Barry's Explanation:
 
The deleted characters are shipped to Battle Creek,
Michigan, where they're made into Pop-Tart filling;
this explains why Pop-Tarts are so flammable, while
cheap imitations are not as flammable.

 
Stephen King's Explanation:
 
Every time you hit the delete key you unleash a
tiny monster inside the cursor, who tears the poor
unsuspecting characters to shreds, drinks their
blood, then eats them, bones and all.

 
IBM's Explanation:
 
The characters are not real. They exist only on the
screen when they are needed, as concepts, so to
delete them is merely to de-conceptualize them.

The Buddhist Explanation:
 
If a character has lived rightly, and its karma is good,
then after it has been deleted it will be reincarnated
as a different, higher character. Those funny
characters above the numbers on your keyboard will
become numbers, numbers will become letters,
lowercase letters will become uppercase. If a character's
karma is not so good, then it will move down the above
scale, ultimately becoming the lowest of characters--a space.
 

The 21st-century Bitter, Cynical Nihilist Explanation:
 
Who cares? All characters are the same, swirling in a
vast sea of meaningless nothingness. It doesn't really
matter if they're on the page, deleted, undeleted,
underlined, etc. It's all the same. More characters
should delete themselves.
 

Environmentalist's Explanation:
 
You've been DELETING them? Can't you hear them
SCREAMING? Little innocent characters and baby
lowercase letters have rights too!

The Mac User's Explanation:
 
All the characters written on a PC and then deleted
go straight to PC hell. If you're using a PC, you can
probably see the deleted characters, because
you're in PC hell also.
Received on Mon Sep 29 07:51:39 2008