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TIFU: Didn't believe my friends about whitehouse dot com

This goes back many years ago, a bunch of guys from work at lunch and somehow the topic of the website for the White House (whitehouse.gov of course) comes up. Then someone asks if everybody knew about Whitehouse dot com. I hadn't but several others had and said it was a porn site. I was dubious but they insisted. Being the 'I'll believe it when I see it' type, when we got back to work I went to my cube and looked for proof. Typed in the URL and Holy Christ on a kickstand it really was porn!

About this time I hear someone approaching from down the hall, I knew I had but a few seconds so I EX out of the browser window, and spin around in my chair looking relaxed just in time to see one of our Sales Managers walk up. He puts one arm up on top of the cube wall and says "Hey, did you get..." and then gets this wide eyed stare over my shoulder. I spin back around and see what looks like about TWENTY windows popping up, all advertising porn sites, porn discounts, daily email porn, yeah, just about any porn related products you can imagine. On my CORPORATE WORK COMPUTER. I grab the mouse and start trying to click the tiny 'X' on some of the windows which only seems to create three or four more each time I do it. Then I miss one of the X's and open a whole NEW porn site. Complete with steaming, throbbing, thrusting...you get the idea.

By now I can feel my career dissipation light beginning to blink. I look back over my shoulder, he's got this big grin on his face. He says "Let me know if you find anything good" and walks away. He was cool. Never heard a word about it from anyone.

The moral; if you don't believe someone about the internet, wait til you get home to get proof.

TL:DR There used to be a porn site called white house dot com. I didn't believe it so tried the URL on my work computer...and yes, it was true.

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