Now, please consider that this conversation was with someone I've been a friend of for a few years.

Person: "Hey, [Seven], what's this?"

{Shows me a box of Epson Color Ink Cartridges, with a print of a guitar on the example photos.}

Seven: "That's a box of ink cartridges."

Person: {Looks confused for a few seconds} "For a guitar?"

Seven: "Why yes, that's one of those guitar faxes. Someone sends you a fax, and you have to strum a tune on the guitar to receive it. And these are the replacement ink cartridges.

Person: {Looks silently at the package.}

Seven: "Of course, the catch is that if you don't strum out the right tune, you don't get the fax."

Person: {Looks at the cartridges for a few more seconds} "You're feeding me something, aren't you?

Seven: "Why yes, yes I am! How long did you believe me?"

Person: "Well, I couldn't be sure. You know, the pace of technology these days..."

Up until the last second, I had him believing that there was something called a guitar fax. Anya had to laugh, and smacked me upside the head for being mean to my friends. A good day, altogether.


Paul Oakenfold - The Goa Mix

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Finagle's Third Law: In any collection of data, the figure most obviously correct, beyond all need of checking, is the mistake.