SNOW JOKE
The British polar expedition was having a torrid time. Progress was desperately slow, winter was upon them and temperatures had dropped to record lows.
Waking one morning and trying to connect to a navigation satellite on their laptop, the team realised, by the absence of the familiar whirring sound, that the drive must have frozen solid. The team leader had an idea.
"The sun's up, but not for long chaps. Let's put the computer on the roof of the tent and maybe the rays striking the black plastic will warm it up enough for the drive to begin working again."
So they did. And it did.
Eventually, against all the odds, the team made it to the pole, returned home and became household names. The team leader was knighted by the Queen and besieged by publishers wanting him to write the story of the heroic journey.
Six months later the book came out, with its unforgettable title: "Now is the winter of hard disk on tent."
(Submitted by Shirley Knott of Billericay, Essex)
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