{"id":29493,"date":"2006-10-03T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/10\/03\/if-only-hed-known-to-offer-to-back-up-their-pc-instead\/"},"modified":"2006-10-03T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-03T10:00:00","slug":"if-only-hed-known-to-offer-to-back-up-their-pc-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20061003-00\/?p=29493","title":{"rendered":"If only he&#039;d known to offer to back up their PC instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love it when two unrelated stories conspire to create amusement beyond what each one provided separately.\nWe start with this report from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/a> of a man on Craigslist who offered to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/09\/20\/man_fixes_pcs_in_exc.html\">perform computer maintenance and repair in exchange for second base<\/a>. (For those not familar with North American high school sexual slang&mdash;and that includes me&mdash;I refer you to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baseball_Metaphor\">this schedule of bases on Wikipedia<\/a>, accompanied by a disturbingly elaborate list of secondary metaphors.)<\/p>\n<p>That story provided momentary amusement, but it was subsequently recalled by this unrelated story of a man who was ruled to have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/story\/0,23599,20471214-13762,00.html\">overcharged for breast fondling<\/a>. If only he&#8217;d known to offer to back up their PC instead. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love it when two unrelated stories conspire to create amusement beyond what each one provided separately. We start with this report from BoingBoing of a man on Craigslist who offered to perform computer maintenance and repair in exchange for second base. (For those not familar with North American high school sexual slang&mdash;and that includes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-29493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I love it when two unrelated stories conspire to create amusement beyond what each one provided separately. We start with this report from BoingBoing of a man on Craigslist who offered to perform computer maintenance and repair in exchange for second base. (For those not familar with North American high school sexual slang&mdash;and that includes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}