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As I'm unable to find the book that this joke was in originally (in contrast to my vinyl LPs and most of my music CDs, I never made an Excel file catalogue of my books), I'll have to give this one in something of a 19th century telegram style.
Personal computer user calls his helpdesk (we're talking offline days except for very few people, so 1990s at the latest).
User: "The monitor of my computer has gone dark." (Telegram part: helpdesk tries several helpful suggestions covering almost every possible cause; then asks user to do *something* - this is where I'd need the book)
User: "Can't do that, out city has had a power outage for an hour now."
Helpdesk: "*Bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep*"
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