Caption Competition: Coming clean

Time to test those data recovery plans...

By silicon.com, 17 October 2008 11:49

This competition is now closed. The winning caption, from reader Hunter Fairley was: "Okay, what part of Data Cleansing was it that you didn't understand?"

Photo credit: Lewis Imagebank

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  1. 1. Kevin Marsahll

    * Please note the stick has been cleaned of the words "Property of HMRC"

  2. 2. Radical Meldrew

    I remarked about the proposed data cleanse at work and my wife decided to make a start at home - here are the results!

  3. 3. Christian

    No honey, I said UBS was a washout, not USB in the washer...

  4. 4. Tony Sibley

    It's always in the last place you look isn't it!

  5. 5. Craig Mitchell

    Just goes to show the world is awash with USB memory sticks.

  6. 6. Craig Mitchell

    USB device designers really hit the mark with a USB self washing towel.

  7. 7. Craig Mitchell

    USB device designers got the wrong end of the stick when their boss with with a speach impediment asked for a device with "better Wighting speeds".

  8. 8. Craig Mitchell

    World boffins looking for a quicker option to destroying data. Right click Format seems a little to antiquated.

  9. 9. Craig Mitchell

    Indesit's new marketing team reallised they were a little under educated when they were asked to think of a USP for there new washing machine.

  10. 10. PAD

    USB Flash cleans better than standard detergents

  11. 11. Ronald Jonas Frankenberg

    My privacy is all washed Up

  12. 12. Richard

    Of course it won't run: You left the cap off - it's probably dried up.

  13. 13. Paul

    This USB stick has 25KG of washing loaded on it and the whole lot gets washed with your normal wash at 40 degrees! Yet another environmental step forward from Acme Electrics......

  14. 14. Rolf

    USB must stand for Utterly Soapy Bath

  15. 15. kenneth wilkinson

    "Dongle loved his Soaps."

  16. 16. Valerie Ganne

    After losing the personal data for half the population, one Government official’s career was all washed-up

  17. 17. Robert Lindsay

    It was on a rope, so I thought it was soap!

  18. 18. Nick Fowler

    What, me? Take two memory sticks into the shower?

  19. 19. Audrey

    No, Darling, using a flash drive doesn’t mean you have to take all your clothes off

  20. 20. Chris Sanderson

    Missing data found in CIO's freshly cleaned dressing gown!

  21. 21. Hunter Fairley

    "Okay, what part of Data Cleansing was it that you didn't understand?"

  22. 22. Richard

    Of course it won't run: You left the cap off - it's probably got a bit dried up.

  23. 23. John Ray

    Unusual Soap Bauble

  24. 24. Mike Parmley

    Remember to clean the washer filter regularly to prevent a build up of data.

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