How did THAT get in THERE?

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Today I bought a copy of the Pet Shop Boys video Videography, I put it in my VCR but it ejected itself. So I tried again and again and again x1000 but it kept doing it. So then I tried loads of other videos but they kept doing they same thing so I thought "Bah! My video seems to be broked!". I thought I'd have a bit of a fiddle (hur hur) to try to fix it and found A 20p COIN INSIDE MY VIDEO RECORDER.

So can someone please tell me what the 20p was doing in my video recorder?

― jamesmichaelward, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

resting?

― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Do you have children? Or a pet monkey?

― adam, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Surely both answers are equivalent.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned, have you ever been fired from a job at kindergarten yet been unable to fathom quite why?

― Graham, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

^-- similar joke to that but asking about being fired from a job at a zoo.

― richard john gillanders, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have no pet monkeychildren. I do have a pet but it's a dog and I doubt it was my dog because if she had 20p, she'd spend it on penny chews instead of hiding it in my video.

― jamesmichaelward, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Maybe she's saving for a Curly Wurly?

― Graham, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Why, it's the VCR Fairy of course. She *was* formerly known as the Tooth Fairy, but say she woke up one day and finally asked herself "What the ruddy fuck am I ever going to do with a few billion juvey teef anyway?" They also say she has a special fondness for Van Damme movies.

― Kim, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(oopsiedaisy, make that...but THEY say...

― Kim, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Alchemy!

― j>e>l, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to babysit a monkeychild who was easily the naughtiest creature alive and once he put some small rocks, his underpants and a piece of toast with jam on it into the VCR.

― rainy, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

haha my favourite "the support help-line were non-plussed story": a young mother, a friend of a friend (of course), finds her computer behaving strangely, does what she can, rings the helpline, blah blah, no improvement. Eventually it's sent off for repair. The report comes back: no mechanical or software failure per se, but your machine will work better if you don't put KRAFT CHEEESE SLICES into the floppy disc port.

― mark s, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it was the chicken, who was trying to cross the road.

― Geoff, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, when I was relating this tale to a friend of mine last night, she said that once she'd been using her computer when she saw a WORM pop his head out of the disk drive before going back into her computer. For all she knows, he's still there!

― jamesmichaelward, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Curly Wurlies. Do you remember when they had limited edition orange flavour? Mmmmmm. I was addicted. I ate the last one they had in Sids Shop. I am proud of that.

― Sarah, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I babysit a monkeychild who complains that Buffy is "too scary" when I insist we watch the 2 daily episodes on FX. He protests by immediately falling into a deep sleep. I don't complain.

― adam, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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