Or just keep repeating "They need to be in alphabetical order." Over and over.
Hands! Hands in new places!
Willow ,'Storyteller'
Natter 74: Ready or Not
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Dana - Mar 29, 2016 11:29:50 am PDT #18589 of 30003
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
msbelle - Mar 29, 2016 11:31:07 am PDT #18590 of 30003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Or throat punch her.
Maria - Mar 29, 2016 11:32:32 am PDT #18591 of 30003
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
I'd be in jail already if I had to do Teppy and Zen's job. No lie.
Saints. All y'all.
SuziQ - Mar 29, 2016 11:39:26 am PDT #18592 of 30003
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
"asked and answered"
sj - Mar 29, 2016 11:49:58 am PDT #18593 of 30003
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I'd be in jail already if I had to do Teppy and Zen's job. No lie.
Maria is me. By this point I would be tempted to send a link to a Sesame Street video where they're singing the alphabet.
Toddson - Mar 29, 2016 11:52:45 am PDT #18594 of 30003
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I was recently copyediting a document that contains a list of sponsors for a conference. Whoever put the list together somehow managed to move a bunch of cities around - as in, Austin, GA; Atlanta, PA; and so on. The ones I spotted I googled to make sure I had the correct state, but I didn't have time to search on all of them ... I referred it to a higher authority and went on to something else.
Zenkitty - Mar 29, 2016 11:58:30 am PDT #18595 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I feel validated! I'd lose what's left of my mind if I had to do one of y'all's jobs that involve money and/or math.
Have I told the story of when one of my friends had a client who insisted that 10% of anything was always 10? Because 100% is the whole thing, and 10% of 100 is 10, therefore 10% is always 10! Easy!
Steph L. - Mar 29, 2016 12:11:14 pm PDT #18596 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
The author finally emailed back (I swear this is an actual quote) "Oh! The footnotes have to be in order in the table!"
YES WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE TABLE I DON'T EVEN
But at least she says she understands, so it should be off my plate. Now I just have to get through this dreaded board meeting. The secretary emailed the agenda earlier and I wanted to stab myself in the face just from reading it. (Definitely a sign I need to be off the board.)
Steph L. - Mar 29, 2016 12:11:50 pm PDT #18597 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Oh! Maybe I should download the cat game for the board meeting!
Dana - Mar 29, 2016 12:21:23 pm PDT #18598 of 30003
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Have I told the story of when one of my friends had a client who insisted that 10% of anything was always 10? Because 100% is the whole thing, and 10% of 100 is 10, therefore 10% is always 10!
Oh holy shit. I mean, in a sense, 10% is always 10%, so yeah, but...NO. Percentages and numbers are DIFFERENT THINGS.
I'm trying to think of the most maddening thing an author did to me. I think the worst I've ever seen adjacent to me was when a principal investigator rejected our design for an informational poster, saying something like "You may not be familiar with creating posters for field campaigns..."
He said this to the public relations coordinator. Who had 10 years of experience with the program. Which mostly sponsored field campaigns.
Fortunately, in that case, we just referred him to our DOE head, who came down on him like a ton of bricks.