• We recently gave my grandparents our old computer to play solitaire and slot machine games. When they first started using it, my grandmother would call and tell me that she lost the "mouse", referring to the arrow on the screen.
  - Mike from University of Nebraska, Lincoln


Your parents' favorite Genesis game.

• Recently I bought a orange microfiber cloth to clean off my laptop's screen. My mom saw me using it and asked to borrow it. When I gave it to her, she stopped and asked, "Oh, will this work for my Mac?"
  -Mark H. from Occidental College

• I came home from work one night and my mom and her boyfriend were watching a DVD. I asked how it was, and they said really good but it didn't make any sense. I sat down for a few minutes and eventually figured out they were just watching deleted scenes.
  -Dan from Framingham State.

• My Dad asked me what an apple pie phone was.
  -Steven from University of Washington
  
  

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• My mom's CD drive was stuck closed. I restarted the computer, and the drive light came on.
  Mom: "Oh look, it's working!... now it's not... now it is... now it's not... now it is... now it's not... why isn't it working?"
  Me: "Mom... the light is blinking."
  - Rafael from Raleigh, NC


Your parents' pirated music.

• My mom tried watching a DVD, but got stuck on the menu. I asked her what she was doing, and she said "I think there is a skip in this disk because it just keeps playing the same scene over and over".
  - Nicole C. from Omaha

• We just gave our grandpa our old computer. The first email he wrote said "Sorry about the slow typing, I'm still really new at this."
  -Brian S.

• My mom walked in on me looking at porn one time and all she could say was, "Trey! Did you download that? Delete it! It's illegal you know."
  -Trey H.

• My dad got a cell phone a few months ago, but he never turns it on. He thinks that you get charged for every minute the phone is on.
  -Sara T.

 

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• My parents got their first new computer in eight years while I was in town over Christmas, so I set it up for them and helped them get used to Vista. I left my dad to transfer files from his old computer on floppy disks, but soon got called back in to help him. He thought he had gotten the wrong size floppy drive. I came back in and found him under the desk, trying to fit a disk into the subwoofer."
  -Daniel L.


Your parents' Yu-Gi-Oh cards.

• My friend's dad worked for a local cable company answering phones and helping people with their computer problems. One time an old lady called and asked if somebody could come by and shorten her cable because it was too long. He said, "oh we can do that automatically from here if I just pull on it....how is it now?" She replied, "It's much better thank you."
  -Patrick R.

• My mom asked me to send my sister an e-mail telling her to "check her e-mail."
  -Jeff A

• I've worked at an internet company for about a year. One day, a lady called and told me her computer wouldn't turn on no matter what she did. I said "Ok, can you look at the back of the computer and make sure the power cable is plugged in." She responded, "Just give me a second, I have to find a flashlight because the power is out here at my house."
  -Nick P.

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1) Turn off lights.
2) Oops! Turn the lights back on. Pack bowl.
3) Duct tape vibrating controllers to face.
4) Oops! You should probably make sure your roommates are gone before you tape anything to your face.
5) Ok, now turn the lights off again.
6) Launch Rez HD from the Xbox Live Arcade menu. Because Rez HD is an XBLA game, you can just leave your SuperTroopers DVD in the 360.
7) Question authority.
8) Purchase and install surround sound system. You can turn the lights on again, if you need to.
9) Play Rez HD.

• My parents were shopping for a new dictionary online. I told them it was free at dictionary.com. My mom said, "Free? But you must still have to pay for shipping."
  -Alex J.


Your parents' super bowl.

• My father called and asked, "I know you know computers, so I wanted to ask you which is the best type of computer out of Apple, Dell, or Gateway?" I told him, "I'm not sure, it depends on what you want to do. Are you getting a new one?" He says, "Probably, I just wanted to ask you because I got an email telling me I've been chosen chosen to win a free computer out of those choices, and I also got a $200 gas card."
  -Darby D.

• I received the following text message from my mom: "ill call them when i get off work lATER TODAY AND HOW DO I KEEP GETTING THESE GOD DAMN CAPITOL LETTERS ON!!!" .
  -Kyle from VT

• I walked into my house and my dad said he heard on the golf course about a book of faces, and that all his friends were worried that their children were in it because it is supposed to be college kids. He asked me if I had put my face in it and if it was a cult.
  -Anonymous

• My sweet ol' Granny Myrle recently got her first computer. After playing solitaire for a while, she called my dad and said, "I have to stop playing! I owe a lot of money!" She had the "vegas scoring" option turned on. I love you Granny!
  -Gabe S.

Jeff: I think the answer is, obviously, it depends on the kind of pizza.

Colin: If it's Dominoes then it's no contest. Rock Band. However if you do go Guitar Hero III,do you get $70 worth of pizza, or four pies and a second controller?

"Me and my axe been through a lot together. Once I got like 95% on Rush. Strum bar's broken, but I can't give her up."

Jeff: I didn't even consider that there were still people who don't already have at least one guitar controller. I mean we're on the third Guitar Hero already people, get with it. Ugh.

Colin: Yeah, but do you think co-op and battle are worth four to six pizzas, depending on the establishment?

Jeff: That battle mode isn't even worth an Oreo pizza. You should prevail by being better at guitar, not by sabotaging your opponent.

Colin: I still get killed by the Whammy every time.

Jeff: You and every Press Your Luck contestant. Rock Band and Guitar Hero III look similar on the surface, but they really are for different types of people. About a third of the songs in Guitar Hero III are harder than the hardest song in Rock Band. Guitar Hero III is for the people that want to push themselves and master difficult guitar work. Rock Band is mostly for drunks who want to have fun.

Colin:That said, you can't eat a drum set no matter how hungry you are.

Jeff:Whatever you do, don't buy a mini-pizza and put it in your 360. It seems like the best of both worlds and sure, you'll save money in the short run, but trust me: it's not worth it.