Bwah!
"Can the copy be 30 percent more cool and 40 percent more witty."
Xander ,'Dirty Girls'
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Bwah!
"Can the copy be 30 percent more cool and 40 percent more witty."
Oh, here's a good one:
Money quote from the help desk, though:
"Your issue is beyond the scope of our training/experience, but it sounds like you know what you're doing, I'm sure you'll figure it out"
they could save themselves some time by saying "I'm sorry. I don't understand."
I'm thinking the problem may be them not knowing when they don't understand.
A good part of my job consists of me saying "I'm sorry. I don't understand." to programmers and getting them to 'splain so I can interpret for our users. I'm going to go do some of that right now.
I looked through the clueless clients and they don't seem to have the issue I've had with several clients: they want Web pages that print out better. Not a printable page; just ones that look better when they do what they apparently normally do with web pages--print them out and then read them. The actual instructions they gave me were, "Put this part on a different page." After several e-mails, in became obvious they just wanted that part to print on a different page.
Ah, like Lloyd Dobler "I don't know, but at least I know that I don't know. You know?"
One of the quotes I found epitomizes the "want everything for nothing mentality":
Client: I want excellent work
Me: uha
Client: I want very fasst work
Me: Uha
Clent: and i want very very cheap work
Me: as i roll my eyes, look back at the client and exclaim sarcastically .. YEAH, SURE.. you want fries with that?
I like the woman whose husband had to explain vertical and horizontal.
I've worked with several printers who had this posted over the front desk: "Good. Cheap. Fast. Pick two."
MM, and anyone else in LA who might have missed it -- well, everyone missed it, since it was Weather Watch for two hours.
Jumping forward to say:
Wait, is this about Deb's piece, which I thought was nice and saved on Tivo? Damn.
Yay for good Cass news!!! {{{Cass}}}
deb, I didn't see the show but the photo on the Web site is so great! I'm jealous - I love those makeover shows. Glad you all had fun.
Can this effing rain stop already????? Gurglegurglegurgle