Rag Times

From Why I Believe Printers Were Sent From Hell To Make Us Miserable (via energyface):

The Oatmeal is unstoppable.

This brings to mind a printer my family once had that had to be turned on before you clicked print. That sounds obvious, but let me explain: If you clicked print without the printer being on, you’d get an error saying, basically, “turn the printer on.” So you’d go, “oh duh” and then turn the printer on.

But then, the printer would make hellish noises and systematically feed all your paper through, ruining each sheet with a single line of garbled junk, no doubt some secret code meant to be decoded by the Illuminati, and it would continue to do so until no paper was left, and then demand more paper.

The only way to fix the problem was to force the printer off, then restart the computer, turn the printer back on, and then click print, after which it became a complete angel. I ruined several reams of paper before I figured out the precise order.