No, this is not a badly spelled post about flattering others. A Complament is the outcry of sheer misery and frustration when your customer phones you because his computer has fallen over for the Nth time due to a suspected PICNIC* error which you have as yet failed to track down.
*PICNIC = ‘Problem In Chair, Not In Computer’ – a.k.a. an ID-10T error or PEBCAK (Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard)
Anyway, as is usually the case, the user was wearing a sheepish expression and pleading complete innocence to any and all wrongdoing where the machine was concerned, despite the fact that, to paraphrase Monty Python, it had:
‘…kicked the bucket, shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisibule!! THIS WAS AN EX-COMPUTER!!’.
