Here’s a quick how to on creating your own Windows Error messages.

  1. Open up notepad and copy/paste the following text:
    X = MsgBox(“Box Text”, 0+16,”Box Title”)
  2. Edit the words in “Box Text” with your error message.
  3. Edit the words in “Box Title” with the title of your error message.
  4. Optionally, you can also change the number/s (listed below) to display different buttons.
  5. Click on File > Save As…
  6. Name the file anything you want and add the .vbs extension to it.
    Ex: error.vbs
  7. Open your newly created file to see the error message.

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Ahoy, t’ all you pirates out thar, happy 4th o’ July!

The owner of a drug store walks in to find a guy leaning heavily against a wall. The owner asks the clerk, “What’s with that guy over there by the wall?”

The clerk says, “Well, he came in here this morning to get something for his cough. I couldn’t find the cough syrup, so I gave him an entire bottle of laxative.”

The owner says, “You idiot! You can’t treat a cough with laxatives!”

The clerk says, “Oh yeah? Look at him, he’s afraid to cough!”

Ahoy matey! Today’s post be just for funzies. Apparently thar be a hidden DOS styled text editor built int’ every version o’ Windows called Edit. After tryin’ it out I be findin’ that functionality be close t’ that o’ Notepad with features like yer standard cut, copy, paste, find an’ replace. You can also change that thar default white text on blue background with what be a pretty good selection o’ colors which ya can’t do in Notepad. If you’ve got two minutes t’ spare I recommend you try this.

Edit be opened in two easy steps me parrot says.

  1. Start > Run
  2. Type “edit” and hit Enter or click OK

Yaarrr, have a nice day, gar!

Three women are discussing their teenage daughters.

The first declares: “I was so shocked last week. I was tidying my daughter’s room and I found a packet of cigarettes under her pillow. I didn’t even know that she smoked!”

“It gets worse than that,” says the second mother. “I was tidying my daughter’s room last week and I found a bottle of vodka under her bed. I didn’t even know that she drank!”

“Oh, it gets even worse than that,” says the third mother. “I was tidying my daughter’s room last week and you’ll never guess what I found in her bedside cabinet: a packet of condoms! I didn’t even know that she had a penis!”