• (cs) in reply to Neil

    Great. Earlier than usual appearance of the pedantic grammar Nazi moron. And as usual, they screw up when they try and point out problems:

    Neil:
    Article:
    before being replaced by a Dec]/b] Alpha and Oracle database from the server graveyard in one of the dimly lit storage rooms. Once in place and he would then play Doctor Frankenstein

    Why did they replace the Data General with a [b]Del Alpha from the graveyard? They should buy something new!

    Article:
    Once in place and he would then play Doctor Frankenstein

    Huh? Somebody didn't quite finish rewriting this paragraph, I guess.

    Huh? Somebody didn't quite get their pedantry right, I guess. No, wait! Not a guess - I'm quite sure.

  • (cs) in reply to snoofle

    I call shenanigans.

  • Leo (unregistered) in reply to PhilipWade
    PhilipWade:
    I call shenanigans.

    I'm going to pistol-whip the next guy who says "shenanigans".

  • greg (unregistered) in reply to Pine Scented
    Pine Scented:
    The tree hugger in me just died a little.

    Meh. It's a renewable resource, and the trees are grown just for that purpose.

  • Robert S. Robbins (unregistered) in reply to Charles400

    Well I read the output of the payroll report that accounting accidentally sent to my printer here in the server closet. Now I know how much everyone makes.

  • iMalc (unregistered)

    Someone should be forced to go and plant trees for the next 6 months for wasting so much of our planet's resources!

  • dunno (unregistered) in reply to AdT
    AdT:
    Pine Scented:
    The tree hugger in me just died a little.

    The intern girl hugger in me died a little, too.

    The face hugger in me jumped a little as well.

  • BigTreeHugger (unregistered) in reply to Pine Scented
    Pine Scented:
    The tree hugger in me just died a little.

    Died a lot...

  • Dave (unregistered) in reply to Neil
    Neil:
    Why did they replace the Data General with a Del Alpha from the graveyard?

    No you've got it wrong, it was Del Tarrant who slipped in as a replacement for the Data General after Avon killed the real one when he found out he was acting as an agent for Servalan. Geeze, this should be in the FAQ.

  • Jon (unregistered) in reply to Leo
    Leo:
    PhilipWade:
    I call shenanigans.

    I'm going to pistol-whip the next guy who says "shenanigans".

    Hey Leo, what's the name of that restaurant you like... ?

    ;)

  • Drydorn (unregistered)

    The finale of that tale had me laughing out loud. So much paper that it nearly broke through the floor. rofl.

  • Dugeen (unregistered)

    There's nothing diabolical about the HSE - the real devilishness is displayed by employers careless of workers' safety.

  • rockhound (unregistered) in reply to Dave

    "Don't stand there, you idiots! Launch the interceptors!"

  • http://skaheru.wordpress.com/ (unregistered)

    I passed out laughing. More, more, more!!!

  • Max (unregistered)

    I had a similar job one time, right after high school. I was editing and constantly printing those very long "bill-of-materials" for a small manufacturing company. The hardware was a 80386 PC, and an EPSON dot-matrix printer (those that could be fed paper rolls).

    I was using a DOS text editor, had to do a lot of search-and-replace. The sound of the dot-matrix printer was still in my ears when I was going back home from work.

    CAPTCHA: validus (Latin for "true"?)

  • fotoguzzi (unregistered) in reply to notromda

    You should write up a white paper on that!

  • 🤷 (unregistered)

    A few years late, but I think you should introduce that "Remy P" guy as a writer on this site.

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