silver surfers

今朝は日本の卓球チームとテニスの錦織が活躍しているニュースがありました。私の方は先週の日曜日の団体戦は3位、翌日のラージボールは会社を休んだにも関わらず全く成果なし。文化の日の個人戦は銀メダルを貰えました。そこで今日のジョークはシルバーがテーマです。
We "silver surfers" sometimes have trouble with our computers. One such time, I called Eric, the 11-year-old computer whiz who lived next door at the time. He came over, clicked a couple of buttons and solved the problem in no time at all.
As he was leaving, I called after him, "So, what was wrong?" I asked.
"It was an ID-ten-t error," he said.
I didn't want to look stupid, but I enquired, "An ID-ten-t error? What's that? In case I need to fix it again."
Eric grinned. "Haven't you ever heard of an ID-ten-t error before?"
"No," I replied.
"Write it down," he said, "I think you'll be able to figure it out."
So I wrote it down: ID10T."

"silver seats" は和製英語で英米人には通じないと何かで読んだ事がありますが、上の例（リーダーズダイジェストに掲載）の様に、quotation mark で囲んで意味が推測できる文脈で使えば "silver seats" も通じそうです。私も白髪が増えてきましたが、"ID10T" エラーはまだ経験したくありません。