Cartoon 11 [The Twelve Days of Christmas Giveaway]
June 15th, 2009 | Posted in Uncategorized 28 Comments »
I’ve enjoyed reading through the captions you submit. This is the second to last day. The winner of today’s contest will receive a free copy of Snagit.
Cartoon by Ben Minson. For full details about the giveaway, see this post.
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Step 1: Don’t Panic.
Now that I have your attention…
What exactly were the changes to the UI that you checked in?
It says “If attacked:
1 – Remain calm.
2 – Make yourself look as unappetizing and undigestable as possible.
Note – If you or someone else are swallowed, contact a poison control center immediately to p[revent damage to the plant.”
“I told you it was a typo. On the web site it doesn’t say plant enjoys being hand fed. It says plant enjoys being fed hands.”
“I’ll be with you in just a second. I’m just putting the final touches on this document…”
Hang in there, I’m googling it RIGHT NOW!
“What have you been feeding it? Wikipedia says it is small plant.”
Fascinating! It says here that the Peruvian Man-eating Marigold can grow to over 10 feet tall and consume twice its weight in food every month.
Who cares?! Just tell me how to get this thing off me!!!
I told you last week this would happen if you didn’t make those changes to the GUI.
Hang on for just a few more minutes. I’m going to need to install Windows 7 in order to read the help file on this thing.
Kelli, your caption wins today’s contest. Congrats.
“I’m updating my Facebook status. ‘Carla is helping save a co-worker from being eaten by a large man-eating plant.’”
You’re in luck, Jill, the documentation says it’s a *man*-eater!
“Is there one ‘f’ or two in ‘suffocation’? Hold on while I visit dictionary.com.”
“Hang on, here’s a video on how to extract yourself from a giant carnivorous plant! Watch the screen, Laura.”
“Laura?”
This shouldn’t be happening. The testers found no bugs in the system. It EATS bugs, after all.
Need advice plant attacking coworker. #rh09
“You’ll have to hold on–I told you when I write from home I am not to be disturbed unless you’re being devoured by carnivorous houseplants.”
You’re right; it was Roger Corman, not Harvey Korman–he was the guy on the Carol Burnett show.
“I was right! It says right here that it only eats flies and other small insects. You have nothing to worry…”
“Hang on a minute! I’m just checking IMDB.com to see if Audrey is a flesh-eating plant. What was the name of that movie again? Little Shop of Plants, or something?”
I warned you that your last user guide smelled like fertilizer!
Good news! You’ve already got over 1,000 views on YouTube!
I told you this office had strict rules against shorts on Casual Day.
Wait. I need to refine the search terms. “Giant, man-eating plant” isn’t returning any helpful results.
There’s gotta be a job aid online somewhere … could you stop screaming and help me out with some meta-tag suggestions?
Kelli’s caption wins the contest for today.
“Hang on for just a few more minutes. I’m going to need to install Windows 7 in order to read the help file on this thing.”
I know I’m too late, but…
The Technical Author carefully explained the importance of providing timely input to the Subject Matter Expert