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Old 03-25-2006, 07:55 AM
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Default Tuttle, OK city manager threatens to call FBI...

I dunno, but this whole insane episode makes me sad for the city of Tuttle...
They appear to have elected their village idiot as city manager.

Here's the tale:
http://www.centos.org/modules/news/a...hp?storyid=127

Another take on the story, from The Reg in the UK:
http://www.theregister.com/2006/03/24/tuttle_centos/

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as HAL 9000 once said "why don't you take a stress pill"
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That's Oklahoma for ya.
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Old 03-25-2006, 09:46 PM
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I thought I am the one who is computer illiterate.....

heck, at least i can follow directions!!
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I used to deal with people like this all the time when I worked at an ISP.
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Old 03-28-2006, 09:25 AM
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Heheheheheh...

He's back...

http://www.theregister.com/2006/03/27/tuttle_email/

(A little two-page writeup - second page is mostly hilarious e-mails about this guy. )
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One time my job required me to e-mail over a hundred local govts asking for their staff's e-mail addresses. About 30% of them FAXED the info to me!
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LOL, that is great. I love reading about people who think they know about computers when they really don't. Bad thing is, I come to work and have to deal with people like that that believe they are computer literate. It is really hard to be patient with those people when they are trying to tell me how to do something on a computer. LOL. People need to learn some technology skills in todays workplaces.
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Old 03-29-2006, 09:59 PM
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Ah! Folks on-line are having buckets of fun with Taylor of Tuttle. Here are a couple of 'Farked' pics of Jerry.

First, though, his official picture:



Now the Farks...



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haha tron
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What's this Windows XP stuff and how did it get on my computer?!? It must be spyware!!!!!
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What was the name of that really insideous virus that was on nearly every Windows machine and would pop up all the time, right over what you were trying to do and just WOULD NOT go away? You know which one I mean. It would pop up and actually make some rude comment about what you were doing and you'd have click to somehow make it go away? Oh, yeah, Clippy! That was it!

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wow this is hilllllarous!
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OMG........I can't believe that........
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Score one for the Linux boys......

Thats the awesome-ist article ever.
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.........BWAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!
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