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Oh, Ooh? Umm?

Colleague: "They need more memory, it's only got two sticks of 512MB." Me: "What kind of memory? PC2? DDR? SDRAM?" Colleague:  "Oh, Ooh? Umm?" Colleague:  "Also they have a laptop and the 80GB HDD is full." Me: "Easy, we'll snapshot it, transfer the image to an 120GB drive, jobs-a-goodun." Colleague:  "Good idea." Me: "What type of drive is it? Is it SATA or IDE?" Colleague:  "Oh, Ooh? Umm?"

More the merrier.

Day 1 Me: "So as you can see the menu across the top already has six entries, I'm not sure there is room for a seventh one? Customer: "It would be good if it was possible. Me: "I'll try and see if it looks OK." Day 2 Me: "OK the menu bar now has seven entries. We had to remove the language choice feature but it's done and amazingly does not look squashed. Customer:  "Brilliant." Day 3 Customer:  "Can you add three more entries please? " Mummy, why is daddy smacking his face off the desk? "