Well, it's just good to know that when the chips are down and things look grim you'll feed off the girl who loves you to save your own ass!

Xander ,'Chosen'


Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Gudanov - Oct 20, 2006 7:42:25 am PDT #4526 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

If you have a problem with Rumsfeld, then you'll have to take it up with God, because that's who's telling Rumsfeld what to do. At least according the chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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Ginger - Oct 20, 2006 7:46:53 am PDT #4527 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

A guy who eventually became a senior VP at the large utility company I worked at once made up an org chart with him in it with a fake promotion. He left it in the copy machine. After the buzz went around that he was an up-and-comer, he actually got a promotion. Many people attributed his early success to the fake org chart.

eta: added dangling preposition


Gudanov - Oct 20, 2006 7:49:28 am PDT #4528 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

Many people attributed his early success to the fake org chart.

Or maybe he's a precog.


Jesse - Oct 20, 2006 7:50:26 am PDT #4529 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Man, sometimes I wish I were an evil genius.


Steph L. - Oct 20, 2006 7:50:59 am PDT #4530 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Many people attributed his early success to the fake org chart.

Or maybe he's a precog.

Maybe he got promoted *because* he's a precog.


Gudanov - Oct 20, 2006 7:59:08 am PDT #4531 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

Maybe he got promoted *because* he's a precog.

Well if he was a precog and stated that he was going to get a promotion, the management would have to promote him or risk a temporal disruption that would result in a subspace rift and would destroy the entire planet.


Ginger - Oct 20, 2006 7:59:55 am PDT #4532 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

He got the promotions because he was as devious as hell. He was also one of those people with a freaky talent for remembering names. He could recognize at least a third of the 12,000 people in the company, and usually remembered what they did and some other personal detail about them.


Kathy A - Oct 20, 2006 8:01:58 am PDT #4533 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

"You've got to know your Shakespeare, but...if you do, collect these texts and you can just playfully kick butt the way wizards do."

Brush up your Shakespeare;
Start quoting him now.
Brush up your Shakespeare;
And the geeks will all kowtow.


Gudanov - Oct 20, 2006 8:02:05 am PDT #4534 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

He got the promotions because he was as devious as hell.

Well okay, I suppose that's an alternative to the precog theory.


Connie Neil - Oct 20, 2006 8:03:04 am PDT #4535 of 10001
brillig

I so love the idea of a Shakespeare world.