Editing 237: Keyboards are Disgusting

{{comic
| number    = 237
| date      = March 19, 2007
| title     = Keyboards are Disgusting
| image     = keyboards_are_disgusting.png
| titletext = Alternate method: convince them to pretend it's an Etch-a-Sketch and try to erase it.
}}

==Explanation==
[[1031: s/keyboard/leopard/|''Ever cleaned a leopard? They're ''filthy.]]

This comic refers to the fact that many keyboards, especially desktop keyboards, gather large amounts of crumbs and are rarely cleaned. In the comic, a person (probably [[Black Hat]]) tricks an unsuspecting character into lifting his keyboard up so that all the crumbs fall down onto his face. By tricking the victim into de-focusing, the prankster ensures that the victim will not notice the crumbs coming out of the keyboard until it is too late, perfecting a quality online prank.

The title text references the toy {{w|Etch A Sketch}}, in which you would draw lines using two knobs and shake the Etch A Sketch upside down to clear the screen. If you shook a gross keyboard upside down over you, you would get filth on you as well.

The cleanliness (or lack thereof) of keyboards is mentioned in the title text of [[1395: Power Cord]].

==Transcript==
:[Hairy sits at his computer, chatting with another person.]
:Chat: Wanna see an optical illusion?
:Chat: Hold your keyboard up in front of you and look at the home row.

:[Hairy holds the keyboard in front of him.]
:Chat: Now cross your eyes a little so the 'g' and 'h' overlap.

:Chat: Keeping focus, lift the keyboard over your head.
:[Hairy lifts the keyboard over his head still looking at the keyboard.]

:[Tiny bits of dust and skin particles fall out of the keyboard in Hairy's face.]
:Hairy: Eww!
:Chat: Ha ha

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