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Verity Stob's Big Fat Geek Yuletide Quiz of the Year Part 2

Christian Vest Hansen

Answers Approved 

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Who needs questions when the answers are so great?

I see before me a plethora of situations wherein one of these answers would find apt application. Hopefully they don't install a Yahoo! Tool! Bar! upon use.

Mark_T

We're not worthy.. 

Heart

'nuff rispek to the El Reg massive.

Pure gold.

Adrian Challinor

The five 'odd ones out' from the full list of Bloody Annoying Windows Vista features were 

Happy

Someone needs to tell Santa I need a new keyboard, mines full of coffee.

Nice one, Miss Stob.

From a smug linux user!

DZ-Jay

Beautifully said 

>> And He did reply unto them, saying: No.

Perfect!

-dZ.

Anonymous Coward

Awesome. 

It seems to have cured my Christmas Eve Eve hangover, as well.

Angus Ireland

Excellent! 

Thumb Up

Wonderful piece of Stobbery :D

Humph

Classic 

Title says it all.

J

Forgot 42 

Joke

Sent only copy?

Does El Reg operate based on paper and snail mail, or something? This is supposedly a tech site; at least say that the dog chewed the USB stick, gee... (but beware those helpful data recovery guys from a story the other day)

Anyway, good answers, even if looking for the questions. Sounds like life here in science sometimes.

Enno

nice but.... 

Joke

really, you need to go back to the source... the greatly missed Kenny Everett who long ago on his program on the telly observed that the answer to question 3 was in 2 parts. Part A was 8 1/2 inches and and part B was Tom Jones. And now, Hot Gossip topless!

'nuff said.

Merry Christmas all from the antipodes.

Enno.

Herby

One forgotten. 

No, the answer is NOT Vista. Vista is the problem, not the answer!

Peter

The iPhone - QUALITY 

That was pure gold, thanks. "A rude sign not understood" - HAHAHAHAHAHAAAA...

Thad

Since the Begginning of Time 

Having to wait while the desktop icons go blank and, slowly, get redrawn, one by one.

Even DOS would have done it, if it had had icons!

Chika

Excellent Stob! 

Happy

Having now submitted this, do you now wish to reboot? Do you? Oh, go on, reboot! Rebooting, it's a way of life! You'll love it!

As for the Yahoo! Toolbar, you do realise this has only happened because everyone worked out not to install the Google equivalent.

From an even smugger RISC OS user!

David Hicks

For those suffering from scrapeware... 

Happy

... and I spent ages struggling with it last time I bought a machine, may I recommend "PC Decrapifier", available from a websearch near you?

Did the job nicely for me. No more trial versions, no more "we recoomend", and nor more yahoo toolbar.

Actually, that last claim may have gone a bit far, but it's good software nonetheless :)

Robert Synnott

Good old Stob 

Hmm, somehow my RSS reader missed this... I was wondering what had happened to my favourite Reg column.

Anyway, I suspect that the format is even older than Everett; Stephen Fry did something similar as his early Donald Trefusis character (also a Christmas quiz), and I don't think it was original then.

Anonymous Coward

@David Hicks 

Happy

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