Pickles by Brian Crane for July 14, 2024

Don’t try this at home with someone else’s iPad.

Percussive Maintenance. Still A Thing.

Wait a minute…Grampa actually did something right? Way to go Grampa.

“we’ve got a wham, bam, shang-a-lang

and a sha-la-la-la-la-la thing" ♫♪

— Silver 1976

Oh, go eat an Apple!

That was boomer TV repair, alright.

Earl adheres to the “get a bigger hammer” philosophy.

A different way of rebooting!

Earl is now going to do a GEICO commercial “Even a caveman can do it”!

When I worked for Radio Shack, (loooooong time ago) the store computer refused to boot up one morning. I called tech support in Texas and they advised “one medium fist hit on the right front corner” of the machine. Evidently, the hard drive would “freeze” overnight while turned off and needed to be joggled into spinning up.

In the Navy, we called that method “Mechanical Agitation” :D

Was Earl watching “Happy Days” rerun with the Fonz hitting the jukebox?

It’s called “percussive maintenance”.

This, coming from a woman who hates phone updates, so BANGS the phone on the table while yelling, “Stop it! STOP IT!”

Just need to let the tubes warm up.

Spit in the back and whomp it on the side – Will Stockdale

My wife says, “if something’s out of whack, give it a whack.”

Way back in the days when 20MB was a big hard drive and a Mac Plus was a big deal, I taught at a college in upstate NY. A colleague couldn’t get theirs to boot so I summoned my best impression of a Southern Baptist minister (I’m English so you can guess how wonderful THAT was), said “Mai chiald ewe SHAYL be whowle!!” and flicked it smartly with my finger. From then on they had no further problems, and as far as I know is working still. So don’t knock knocking hardware…

Perfect punch line.

AI—still hafta show it who’s boss, right, Earl?

After the wham,bam thank you,m’aam earl put on opal’s iPad I’m surprised there’s a screen left….

This calls for a steak dinner!

On a similar note, our router refused to power on one day. Nothing was working until my husband decided to use a higher voltage power supply and the device started smoking. After that it has worked perfectly for a month. I guess we just needed to let the magic smoke out of the device.

Remember just smacking the television when it went on the Fritz? You can’t really do that anymore.

Don’t try that with a Windows machine!

She takes a licking and keeps on ticking.

When I worked in a big semiconductor manufacturer we were instructed to NEVER turn off our desktop consoles.

I thought she graduated from pads to diapers.

The luck of the “WHAM”!

Alley Oop has some real competition.

Not so fast……… Banging isn’t always the solution.

sometimes ya just need to use a bigger hammer!

Sometimes all it needs is a good swift kick in the behind.

I heard that when the first mac computers came out. the instructions given for when they froze up was to pick them up about 2 inches and then drop them to unstick the hard drive.

I hate people that mistreat electronic equipment.

Extreme Laughing Out Loud here!!!