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I worked for a sound system installation co. I walked into the shop one afternoon and a customer, who had bought a wireless mic for his church, was there. He said that the mic didn't work when he turned it on. He proceeded to plug the wireless receiver into the wall, switched the mic on and said "See, there's no sound" as he pointed to the 1/4" output jack on the receiver!
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submitted by David Vining on 2/5/2010 2:21 AM 000267

While working as a student at a local hospital, I had a work order come in to fix a light. The description on the work order said "Please fix light, flickers" but because of sloppy hand writing, it looked more like "Please fix light, f*ckers"
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submitted by David Cole on 5/3/2009 1:13 AM 000266

I was living and working in a countryside community back in 93.
One day I had the most surreal experience standing next to Peggy, a coworker who was about to use a faxmachine for the first time in her life.
She copied the original before sending it...
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submitted by oskar on 12/16/2008 9:45 AM 000265

This isn't funny, it's just a test.
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submitted by Steve Morrison on 9/14/2008 6:46 AM 000264

was working on an electic octave mandolin when a friend came by he take one look at what im doing and says "so it's cool you build these things and all but you know it is impossible for any body to hand build a guitar nearly as good as a factory axe" big mistake we aint really talked for a couple weeks after it was "explained" that the opposite is more rather true
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submitted by eruannu on 2/25/2008 9:31 AM 000263

So i'm sitting in the local music shop's "Circle of vintage" with a B15N across me,waiting for a service guy to give me a hand with ordering some tolex. my 15 year old brother comes over with an SG,plugs into 'that wierdo amp my brother likes' and starts playing. About ten seconds later,he starts to notice something off. he stands up,looks at the salesman,and almost manages to say "That vintage amp is a piece of sh*t!"

My brother had left the SG with the pickups facing the speakers for the cab,so when the tubes warmed up (Right bout where he accentuated the SH in....) it bombarded the entire store with feedback. this continues until the owner of the store wanders around the corner,flips the amp off,and directs my brother out of the store.

I got my tolex with a note attached to the receipt that says "Tolex is cheap. My hearing aids aren't. --####"

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submitted by Sickmanseth on 11/27/2007 5:13 AM 000262

the parts list for yamama keyboards reads... floppy dick controller....
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submitted by dementedchord on 9/14/2007 6:06 AM 000261

I was a Tech for Roland for three years. I came across some pretty funny language problems.

In all of the "Fantom" keyboards, when you go through the internal diagnostic sequence, the last screen says (in perfect Japanenglish) "Test OK, Prease Power Off"
The funny part is it has not been corrected over three generations of this model.

My favorite one is an older "home piano", can't recall the model.
The MIDI jack test displays a mesage on the LCD "MIDI OK, JACK ON", but if there is a problem... you guessed it... "MIDI ERROR, JACK OFF".
No word of a lie.

I love the Japanese.

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submitted by Derek on 2/25/2007 4:35 AM 000260

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