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Funny moments in college.


Ram

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I love screen shots. They are a very easy way to capture images that you can’t store. I use it frequently for many purposes. But I have learned that one must be a little circumspect before using that feature from quite a funny incident. Rewind 15 months , and we were all in the final semester of our engineering. Our syllabus during the final sem was pretty light, with only the project and couple of exams. We literally bunked our way through the sem. Finally, the day for our project presentations came. Amongst the first to give their presentation was my friend. He was as nerdy as nerdy would come and quite an intelligent guy too. His project was about some vedic mathematics based multiplexer design. Though all of us knew we woudnt understand a word of what was going on, we diligently assembled on time for the presentation. I was comfortably seated in the last bench along with my other friend.:thumbs_up: The presentation started and everything seemed in order. The guy had used the ModelSim software to get some test outputs. He had taken screen shots of the output so that he could use it in his presentation. As he was pointing to the output and explaining how his processor was faster et al , I noticed something very strange. On the right corner of the presentation , in the extreme end of the task bar ( yea , he hadn’t clipped it ) were the words “ 20% of Gina download…” I nearly fell of my chair in laughter when i saw that. That blithering idiot had been downloading a porn movie while he was doing that simulation and that clearly showed itself in the task bar.:haha: Just to make sure, I looked at the time displayed in the screen shot. “ 2.37 A.M” it said brightly. My doubts were confirmed. There we were, in the full view of all people , with the department head , all the staff and students seeing and this guy was literally doing an open proclamation of downloading porn movies. I looked around to see if anyone else had noticed , but things seemed quite fine , thankfully. When I turned my attention to my friend who was sitting next to me , He was staring at me with the widest possible grin. “ You saw that ? “ , I asked. “Yep , :D” , he answered. Seems like brains of boys think and work alike! “Let him finish the presentation and come, we are gonna have some fun today”, was what both of us mutually agreed to. We desperately wanted the presentation to get over, so that we could pull his leg. The show finally got over. By all accounts of those who understood what was going on, it was a brilliant one. Our HOD and all the supervising staff seemed to be very impressed with our friends work From the back of the room, we shouted out the name of our friend and waved at him. He slowly started walking towards us, with a triumphant smile in his face as if to suggest – “I know I did a good job”. When he finally reached us , we gave him the customary pat on his back for his good work and all that. Eager to begin the fun , I slowly queried , “So, how was Gina? ”:wink_smile: He was evidently confused at my question and threw me a quizzical look following it with a“ What ??” :dontknow: response “You forgot Gina ? the girl in that movie you were seeing that night ? “ , I suggested. That had effect we were all waiting for. His facial expression totally changed and he blurted out a – “ wh-what are you talking about ? I didn’t see any Gina bull ****. :omg_smile: “ Now my other friend joined in too. “ Comon bro , we saw screen shot and how you were downloading that movie” He was cornered now, but wasn’t about to give up yet. “That’s crap “, he shouted. “ I was in college when I got that output, how am I supposed to download porn in college? And besides I don’t have that softwar…” when i interjected with a “ Oh you were in college at 2.35 A.M ? Wow! That’s some sincerity fellas !”:deal: Now the entire group that was following the conversation was in absolute splits. He knew now he had nowhere to go and changed tact. From trying to “explain” his way out of the situation he got belligerent, coming up with comments like “YES I SAW, SO WHAT??” and “As if you guys watch Ramayana and Mahabharata episodes every night”. :angry_smile: We were totally enjoying his every moment of discomfort. That whole day went all of us pulling his leg on this. Thankfully, he also saw the funny side of all this and ended up laughing as much as we did. He even suggested that he wanted to include Gina’s name in the acknowledgments of the project report saying “ I want to thank Gina Davis for helping me stay awake during the nights so that I could finish the project on time”.:hysterical: This incident definitely has a place in my “ Top 10 funny moments in College” .

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