Using humor in the demonstration

geessh, you're bring me to tears! A standard one for me, is that when you hear the audible alert from the copier that you left your original on the glass, I would then state "the french fries are ready", still gets a laugh to this day (oh corny, right).

From days gone bye, some copiers used to have plastic editing pens. The user would use this pen to white or black out a section of the document. I would set the user up, give them the pen and state that they need to be very careful with the pen because "it is the technology in the pen that cause the document to white out or black out" and that if the pen was lost it would cost $300 or so for a replacement. The user then selected the points on the editing board, pressed the copy key and the copy would be edited with either the white out or black out section of the copy.

This was funny to me because some users actually thought the technology was in the pen and I had a few frantic users calling me that they had lost their pens and needed another. LOL

come one everyone, we had 200 users on tonight and no one has anything to add?

I use humor in every presentation I usually site real world examples and are ridiculous in nature.

Like how I one had a lawyer come to me convinced that a fax machine transmitted the actual paper across phone lines.

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Originally posted by yeti:
I use humor in every presentation I usually site real world examples and are ridiculous in nature.

Like how I one had a lawyer come to me convinced that a fax machine transmitted the actual paper across phone lines.