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Computers are like seashells.  If you put your ear to the cooling fan, you can hear the ocean during a hurricane

Can we just send you to a hurricane and have done with it?

Probably not.  I've already been through two hurricanes, and they're highly overrated.  In terms of entertainment factor anyway.  They're really windy and dumped a crapload of water all over the place, but there were no cows flying through the air or anything like that.

The air cow was from a tornado.  

And Dorothy's last name was Gale, so we all take a bit of literary license when it comes to weather phenomena, don't we?  

So anyway, we all know the long-regarded fact that if you put a seashell to your ear, you can hear the ocean.  I never thought it sounded like the ocean, but that's beside the point entirely.  Sure, the sound you're hearing is just reverberated ambient noise that's all around you already and merely amplified by the shape of the conch shell, but that is a much less fun explanation.  It's the ocean.  

A similar effect can be heard by shoving your ear in front of a fan.  The air rushing by your auditory canal makes noise, too...and it's louder.  Rather than saying it's a fan, you can just tell people that your computer sounds like the ocean.  If you say it enough times, it becomes the truth.