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  Your parents' Guitar Hero.
  My dad watches Tae-bo VHS tapes on a tv in his gym, but he wanted to convert them to DVD. His solution was to place his new macbook on the top of a ladder and use the built-in webcam to tape the TV, then try to burn them onto a disc.
  -Steve from Loyola
  


• My mom asked me to find her the video of Ms. Philippines on YouTube. I explained to her that the video was on CollegeHumor and she replied, "Nevermind, I don't have that."
  -Matt from O'Connell High School


• I found this "review" for Thank You for Smoking while browsing Netflix:
  
  "We don't want any R rated movies sent to us. We know that this limits our choices, But that's O.K. When I ordered this movie I didn't know that it was rated R. If I order another one by accident, don't send it. Thanks, Jan."
  -Sara
  
  
• And a very special sisters don't understand...
  My girlfriend and I were trying to connect to the wireless network at her house but were having problems. Her little sister, a high school senior, then told us that we should try and connect to an unprotected network at the Linksys' house. When we explained it was a company and not a name, she told us that she had been trying to figure out for months where in the neighborhood the Linksys family lived. She couldn't understand why she could still access their network at her boyfriends house a couple of miles away. She figured that they just had a "really strong connection."
  -Rodrigo from Syracuse

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  Your parents' Snoop Dog.
  My mom finally got a cell phone with a camera. She asked me if she had to buy special film.
  -Mike from Kean
  


• A friend of mine found a cell phone. She called the owner of the phone's parents to see if they could get the phone back to their daughter. Five minutes after she got off the phone, a text message came through from the girls dad saying "Lizzy, some girl found your phone...call her at ***-***-**** to get your phone back"
  -Kyle from LSU


• I work in tech support, and an old lady called asking for help with her computer. It just wouldn't turn on. Eventually we figured out that she had a lot of cats and had saran wrapped her tower so no cat hair would get in. The motherboard melted.
  -Dave L.
  
  
• When using AIM my parents use correct grammar and punctuation.
  -Bank from UW-Oshkosh

Steve: I'd love to see a To Catch A Predator videogame adaption. There could be a lecturing level with Mass Effect-ish dialog trees.

A Lost video game should probably just be all about Locke.

Steve: I just don't know why this trend couldn't have started 10 years ago. We'll be forever poorer without a Sliders game.

Jeff: They tried to make an Entourage game, but it was too easy. You could never lose.

Steve: The Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader game is basically a rebranded Math Blasters.

Jeff: There's no mystery why they keep making these. Despite a 57/100 average on metacritic, the Lost game will almost certainly sell more copies than something new and unfamiliar. The question, then, is why do people continue to buy them?

Steve: Maybe there should be a law that grandparents are no longer allowed to buy videogames. Are there any good TV show games?

Jeff: The Simpsons has a long and proud tradition of mediocre games. I think the last one I really enjoyed was Ducktales. Actually wait - Ducktales 2.

• My grandma kept complaing about how she couldn't get her new alarm clock to stop displaying 12:00. I went up to her room and took the sticker off of the display screen.
  -Brett from Ohio State
  

• A friends grandmother recently asked him, "Will I be able to receive my Gmail through the internet?"
  -Michael from University of Texas-Arlington

• We decided to get my dad a new laptop, and his first words upon opening it up were, "Thank God! All the keys are in the same place. I thought I was going to have to learn a whole new setup."
  -Dan from Framingham State.

• This is the notepad my grandfather keeps next to his computer:
  

  
  
  - Darius
  

• 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
  
  

• 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.

• 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.