One morning Tom PEARCE switched on his computer. It normally booted up within a matter of seconds, but on this particular morning nothing much seemed to be happening. After a few minutes as Tom was about to switch the PC off a blue screen with a message appeared.

Tom looked at it, read the message a couple of times, scratched his HEAD and then WONDERED who General Failure was and why was he reading his hard disc?

Your point being ? ?For Godsake it was a joke, have you got nothing better to do than haunt me. Or rather troll my posts.clean_as_a_squid
We are waiting for the punch line.
Who is General Failure and why is he reading the data?

Random Googles:

He's dishing out Corporal punishment while putting you in Major Pain while you suffer under exposure of Private parts.
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... the US presenting Windows 10 trainings and sessions in Phoenix, Austin and Dallas (SCU 2016). But, it turned out I said something wrong, on all of them too, which is a NEW kind of record for me… Anyway I decided to use this classic joke as the headline for an apology...
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I think he maybe related to the new friend I have " Return to last known configuration that worked. " My best ADVICE get ready to be best friends with a geek, OK lets work on that smile ...

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