I've read about and come across some very dumb users over the years, but nothing much beats my cousin just recently. She emailed me to say she had some kind of memory stick but it didn't appear to be a USB type as it "wouldn't fit". To be helpful, she told me its brand - Invirase 500.

I'd never heard of Invirase as a maker of memory sticks, but looked it up on Google. All I could find was reference to a drug treating AIDS. Anyway, I couldn't help much so she took this stick into her local computer shop.

The reason it wouldn't fit her USB ports? She hadn't realised you had to take the protective cover off the end! And the manufacturer? Nothing to do with Invirase 500 - clearly it had been a freebie given away by the drug company!

I don't know whether people like this are fit to let loose with memory sticks. I bet it brightened up the day of the people in the local computer shop anyway!