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Invalidated

For the first time in a while we gave the kids access to their own computer -- had to take the mouse away to keep them from playing with it when they weren't supposed to.

Emmeline decided to log on to the Neopets Web site, only to find that she couldn't remember her user ID or password. She came sobbing to her mother.

"It keeps telling me I'm an invalid user," she said between tears.

Not "invalid" pronounced as an adjective, mind you. "Invalid" pronounced like the noun form, as "one who is disabled."

A good laugh was had by all.

Comments

My first IT boss used to refer to buggy code as "invalid", the way Emme prounounced it. Seemed appropros.

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