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This old, yellowed, photocopy hangs near the bathroom at my favorite burger joint in San Francisco, Joe's Cable Car. I can just see back in time to the late 1980s or so when it was probably a popular faxed gag in corporate America. For some reason, the whole thing, especially imagining it tacked u... More.
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I actually have this exact image on a shirt, from those days; I guess the shirt is about 15 years old. I remember there were two versions of the drawing, obviously one being a direct ripoff of the other but drawn by a different hand. I don't know which was the original, but the other version of the drawing was hanging in the bathroom of the white-box computer shop I worked at.
"Application software" ... cracks me up every time.
Heh, I had this on a poster back in the '80s. Not a photocopied flyer; a professionally printed full-color poster.
Back around 1986 I was given the task of redrawing this thing in full color as a gift for a family friend. I doubt either of the variants mentioned above are mine, but I gotta wonder...
The next time I'm hankering for a $20 burger and shake I'll head over and check out the bathroom art.
FreakCitySF, what is you favorite less-expensive place for a burger in SF?
I remember this hanging in my Dad's office about 1990. It was faxed and copied and faxed and copied ad nauseum so that you could almost read the type.
I encountered it again recently, but I can't remember where.
Actually, I've seen one of those here in Germany. I can't remember where exactly it was... might have been somewhere in the Chaos Computer Club rooms... rather funny.
This is hanging in the staff bathroom of the Art Library at the University of Louisville. I worked there all through college so it is an old friend. Odd to see something i giggled to myself about for years on here.
In & Out! If only I could transplant the atmosphere of Cable Car Joes to In & Outs everywhere! Ok next best is Bill's Place but across town. I live in the Excelsior area.
I remember that and I'm 26!
Joe Grinds His Own Fresh Chuck Daily!
When I was 10, the funniest thing in the world was imagining Joe grinding up then-Pistons coach Chuck Daly.
My dad had one of these in his office c.1988 and I thought it was the funniest thing ever. Glad to know it's still alive!
This same print out is in all the bathrooms at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
As lame as it is it still cracks me up each time I take a dump.
I admit that Joe's is rather spendy, but it has free helium balloons and dazzling amounts of neon and garish tchotchkes and bells and whistles (literally) that all make my 3.5-year-old son very happy. In-N-Out has none of that. I don't know Bill's Place but I will check it out!
that's funny, I just saw this thing here, in a link from boingboing
http://www.internetarchaeology.org/stechnologyscience.htm#img/IMG/computertechnology.gif
ulillillia (www.ulillillia.us) weird (almost exclusively) a shirt with this on it!
http://www.ulillillia.us/images/TriptoMNDuluthScenicRestStop11.jpg
I *love* that in the version you link to, the magazine beside the toilet is Byte! Classic.
Hey I remember that one too! I'm guessing mine was from visiting my Dad's office at Walgreens' hq. This certainly got around, in a time when it was not so easy to email it around town...
That's the best way to understand how it works.
Girly Universe
I remember this, and I'm 23
The one I remember from high school had another arrow pointing to the lid reading "Commode Door 64".
A lot of stuff like that made the jump from the office Xerox to the internet.