Xander: Look who's got a bad case of Dark Prince envy. Dracula: Leave us. Xander: No, we're not going to "Leabbb you." And where'd you get that accent, Sesame Street? "One, Two, Three - three victims! Maw ha ha!"

'Lessons'


Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet  

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.


tommyrot - Dec 04, 2012 11:55:36 am PST #3181 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Oh come on. Obama employs time travel to send ACORN agents from 2008 to 2012. The same way he traveled back to 1961 to plant his "birth announcement" in the Honolulu paper.


billytea - Dec 04, 2012 12:06:18 pm PST #3182 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Fortunately, the American citizenry has a plan to take on this kind of lawlessness. A total of 2,972 signatures were secured for a White House petition to "Establish new legal system of motorcycle riding "judges" who serve as police, judge, jury, and executioner all in one". The petition was thus more than twice as popular as the one exhorting the White House to "Secure resources and funding, and begin construction of a Death Star by 2016".


brenda m - Dec 04, 2012 12:06:58 pm PST #3183 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

In our defense, no one told us the Death Star would be filled with cherries.


tommyrot - Dec 04, 2012 12:10:49 pm PST #3184 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Also, since the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise was retired last Saturday, that means we're going to build a new Enterprise, to be one of the new Ford -class Battlestars.


meara - Dec 04, 2012 12:17:49 pm PST #3185 of 30001

I vote for a cherry-filled Death Star! YES.

I like Pink Lady apples, and honeycrisps, especially when they aren't the ginormo 2-lbs per apple ones.

I'm from Indiana, so I am a total snob about fresh corn and how good it should be.


le nubian - Dec 04, 2012 12:49:11 pm PST #3186 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I am dealing with people who have a TALENT for long-term miscommunication.

I'm trying to communicate about a budget. They ask: tell us what you need in terms of expenditures. I give them a list of expenditures based on my estimate of what I spent last year.

Mind you, they keep all the records of what I spent last year. Their records are what I use to do my estimates.

So in September I gave this list. Heard nothing.

In December, I get another email: how much $$ should we send?

No acknowledgment of previous email or what questions they had in light of it. It's like I sent the email into a vacuum.


msbelle - Dec 04, 2012 12:57:42 pm PST #3187 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Those people get a forward of the original email with the old time/date stamp and an intro note of, "As I previously provided.....".

Off to therapy with mac. whheeee!


§ ita § - Dec 04, 2012 1:07:52 pm PST #3188 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Yeah, I just had a "Oh, that discrepancy was because of the other guy." No, that discrepancy was you, a month after we fired the other guy. Not only is it in OUR emails, it's in this ticket you marked complete...

I just tested and passed something in QA that she then went again and did from scratch in production, so my tests didn't really count. She had 5 items to add, all added perfectly in QA, but she didn't add all five in prod two days later.

Her defense wasn't just blaming it on the other guy--the systems she was saying were different were cloned from each other two months ago with her as development lead. She did half the cloning heavy lifting. For her to turn around and say "Oh, legacy discrepancies..." means she's not even remotely paying attention.


Sheryl - Dec 04, 2012 1:19:55 pm PST #3189 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Yay Scrappy!

Galas, Braeburns and Honeycrisps are my go-to apples. Selection at my supermarket has been a little sparse last few weeks.


le nubian - Dec 04, 2012 1:20:12 pm PST #3190 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Those people get a forward of the original email with the old time/date stamp and an intro note of, "As I previously provided.....".

so, it is a bit more subtle than that.

I think they didn't quite understand what I sent before, or it wasn't in a format they wanted. So instead of saying, thank you for this, we actually need THAT. They just ask me the same question again.

It's like ask: "how many animals do you need?"

and I say: "I need 100 monkeys."

what they wanted to know is: what breed of monkey, delivered in what manner, but they ask instead: "how many monkeys?"

So we have moved to them knowing I need monkeys (out of all the animals), but they need more specificity. Because I don't really know which specifics they need, I cannot help.