morriscox

My church has this event called Youth Conference where teenagers go to another city for a few days for a conference. One year, a brother and I went to one. There were booths with a bunch of gospel games, food and drinks, and prizes. We were all given tickets to use. My brother and I looked at each other, combined our tickets, and went to grab a few prizes and some food and drinks. The adults were trying to convince us to go play the gospel games but we ignored them. When the event ended and the true purpose was revealed, everyone in the room turned and looked at us.

For the rest of the conference, people kept coming up to us and saying how funny they found what my brother and I had done. When they came to my town the next year, they told me about how they still laugh about it up there.

I like to think that I am quite skilled at detecting this type of issue. Now that I think about it, this might be related to my pun skills. Being able to decipher more than one meaning is critical for doing both.

Princess Bride.

I preferred pico.

A college advisor gave me the nickname of Morris Virus. Computers would go haywire, even crash (at least one death), if I was near them (and sometimes when I was about to arrive). I got kicked out of the Computer Center dozens of times. I got in trouble in other places, like at the local ISP, and got banned from touching some computers.

Streetlights would turn off as I approached and come back on after I passed them. A friend used that to find me.

A great aunt and a brother would meet up from time to time to exchange watches since watches would run faster for one and slower for the other.

Rule W25 of Rules of Tech Support - Users will try to do things like type in uppercase numbers.

https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/54423/why-dont-upper-case-numbers-exist

There’s also always an ExplainXKCD: https://explainxkcd.com/461/