Bad Day |
Bad Day (also known as Computer rage or Office rage) is the name of a 30-second viral video clip that has circulated the Internet since 1997 making it one of the earliest video clips that became an Internet meme. The video contains footage of an obese man in his office cubicle, getting gradually irritated with the lack of response from his computer. First he slaps the computer display, causing temporary concern for a person in a neighbouring cubicle. Then he punches the Computer keyboard, picks it up and uses it like a bat to smash the monitor off the desk and out of the cubicle. He then gets up out of his chair and, as his worried neighbour observes, delivers a final kick to the downed screen.
The video clip was part of a marketing campaign by a company situated in Colorado called Loronix Information Systems. Vinny Licciardi, the actor who played the obese man, was the company s shipping manager and appeared in a series of promotional videos extolling the benefits of Loronix s special brand of digital video recording systems. However, Bad Day made the largest impression and was easily distributed via E-mail thanks to its reasonable size (416KB).
The true source of the video in question was revealed in 1998 by Security Distribution Magazine.
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*[http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,44306,00.html Having a Bad Day It s Hilarious , Wired Magazine]|
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