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Thank you to everyone who sent in this picture of what happens when you leave a 21-month old alone with a PowerBook and a Sharpie. As the poster suggests, when your little kid gets really, really quiet, it's time to panic. Fortunately, it looks like a bit of rubbing alcohol was all it took to bring the laptop back to its previous state of beauty. The tags attached to the photo (sharpie, powerbook, kids, love, don't scream, forgiveness) are pretty hilarious in and of themselves.

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Thank you to everyone who sent in this picture of what happens when you leave a 21-month old alone with a PowerBook and a Sharpie. As the...
 

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elclinto

Yeah, thats my kid...powerbook is all clean now thanks to my amazing wife who jumped in there and saved the day with some rubbing alcohol, which worked great...i then went over it again with some iKlear and its all good.

oh and no chauvinism here...Thomas nailed it on the head..parents share and split the work, I was in shock when i first spotted it and froze...my wife new what to do and speedily cleaned it up thus saving the day!

February 17 2007 at 3:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Thomas Schenden

The comments about chauvinism are just silly, and likely coming from non-parents. Smart parents divide the work -- usually unconsciously. If the woman takes the rubbing alcohol challenge up faster than the man, so what. . . so go make a baby and get a life.

February 17 2007 at 11:47 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
luke

reminds me of being a kid and shoving sandwiches in the vcr, those were the good ole days:)
http://locaswt.com

February 17 2007 at 6:23 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Will

I really wouldn't recommend rubbing alcohol too much. I had some dirt on my powerbook g4 and rubbing alcohol stripped the paint off. Luckily it was on the little dip by the arrow keys, so it isn't too noticeable.

February 17 2007 at 12:50 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
sam

the kid is real cute but the guy comes off as kind of a chauvinist making his wife clean the markings all off for him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAoz6HCKJdA

February 16 2007 at 9:32 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
repmek

3 days ago my two-and-a-half year old son popped off 24 Powerbook key caps within 5 minutes [yikes!]. I accounted only for 21, still looking for the other 3 (and yes, I checked his diapers)

February 16 2007 at 9:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
EUGENE

Honestly, if it was my kid and my PB, I'd probably freak. But looking at the pic, I can't help but think it almost looks cool and if the ink didn't impact use, then I'd keep it.

February 16 2007 at 6:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jphilipson

Is it too late to abort?!

February 16 2007 at 6:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
weirdguy

It looks like he was just trying to mimic PNY's XLR8 logo.
http://images10.newegg.com/NeweggImage/productimage/14-133-187-03.JPG


;)

February 16 2007 at 6:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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