51 COMMON STATEMENTS OVERHEARD
WHILE VIDEOTAPING COMPUTER SCREENS:

1. Its never done THAT before.

2. Hmmmmmm...

3. You need to show it doing THAT?

4. I'm still rolling. Should I cut?

5. Where's someone who knows how to run this?

6. Let's move on and we'll come back to it later.

7. Can't you get rid of that little line?

8. THAT'S funny...

9. This'll be an easy day

10. Is that going to be a problem?

11. But that'll look terrible on a 30 foot screen.

12. It wasn't doing this before.

13. We'll just freeze-frame it.

14. This isn't the latest version!

15. We'll just edit that out.

16. Try rebooting.

17. NOBODY'S been able to get THAT feature to work.

18. Can we shoot something else while they're getting this to work?

19. Oh - that happens sometimes.

20. Can we get Whatsisface back here?

21. We'd better let the programmers know about THIS.

22. I've got a dinner date at 7. Lets get this done.

23. I don't know WHY its not working.

24. It'll work, but we can only do it once.

25. I wasn't rolling on that.

26. Go grab another CPU/monitor/modem off of Bernie's desk.

27. Oops.

28. Hello Larry? Its not working.

29. Aaaaargh!

30. Wait a minute. We're going to have to do that all over.

31. They said the machine/monitor/software would be here first thing in the morning!

32. I was up all night setting this up, and now...

33. Oh - It won't do THAT.

34. We'll be done before noon.

35. Well, can't we just fake it?

36. It was working great, then we changed machines.

37. Nope. That didn't work.

38. I know we told you the scan rate was 67mhz, but we changed monitors. Is that a problem?

39. Cursor out!

40. Why is it doing that!?

41. Maybe that means it's working.

42. Didn't we tell you this isn't a fully functional version?

43. Nobody will notice that.

44. I know we wouldn't schedule a test, but can't you do something about that flicker?

45. Bob said he made a few changes to the software, now it doesn't work.

46. 5am call, ready to roll at 7am, first shot rolled at 3pm.

47. Shit.

48. Burn that.

49. What does THAT sound mean?

50. Can't we just use a Mac?

51. Yes, we're sure it works. We tested it on the identical system in our office yesterday. (Special thanks to Bill Zarchy)