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Why You Never Ask the Designers For a Favor
Usually there is nothing funny about a missing pet, but the tale of Missy the lost cat is hilarious. It serves as an example of just how clueless your fellow employees can be, and why you should never ask the designers to drop what they're doing, and help with a personal matter.
Speaking of which, check out this awesome All Your Base Flash video!
Things they have in common: I've seen them both before Slashdot enlightened me...
Would you accept a picture of a spider as restitution?
27bslash6.com? More like 27bslashdotted.com.
Actually, both dogs and cats have shown to respond to rather large human vocabularies. The average dog, on average, is smarter than the average cat.
See, that's just what cats want you to think. All that time NOT spent fetching balls and sticks is spent contemplating the inevitable rise to power.
But it is a great example of most graphic designers I know. They have far more free time than they will ever admit. Far, far too much free time. "Meeting a client." is almost always a code phrase for "I'm sorry, but I'm already drunk.".
Clearly, you should hire an MBA to write your software, a developer to design your web page, and a designer to run your company. Then all will be right in the world.
Because there are at least five highly intelligent people here, and the several hundred who have listed me as friend must have some willingness to listen to unorthodox opinions that almost certainly differ from their own.
Now, admittedly, the readership of Slashdot is closer to 100,000, making the percentage of potentially civilized people rather small in comparison.
However, given that you could only half-fill a remote Alpine village with all the truly civilized, courteous yet self-respecting, intelligent people on the planet, in absolute terms roughly 10% of them must be regulars on Slashdot.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
This is clearly not a real email chain. It is what is known as a 'joke'. Why do all of the commenters take everything so seriously?
Because everyone who posts to /. is an idiot.
Except for me and the beloved Anonymous Coward of course.
No 'milk carton' missing photo?
Or a '404: Missing Cat' poster?
Have gnu, will travel.
so you can get the gist. Once again, the site is http://www.27bslash6.com/ , I personally like it, but not everyone will, or should.
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Riddick
While watching the movie 'Chronicles of Riddick' together last night, my offspring stated that he wished Riddick was his dad. When I asked why, he replied that Riddick is good looking, has muscles and is a good fighter. I told him that I wished Matthew (his arch-enemy at school) was my son because he is better at maths and has cool hair.
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One thousand characters
Writing rubbish on the internet amuses me a lot. There is often a limit of 1000 characters per post so every story (including punctuation, spaces, introduction, proposal, argument and punch line) has to be within a small paragraph.
Sometimes I just write nonsense and other times I write something rather insensitive to evoke angry responses.
When I was just fourteen, I was given the task of drowning kittens by my girlfriend's mother. I filled a large laundry sink with room temperature water and held the eight kittens under. As each kitten died and sank to the bottom, it turned and rested 'snuggled' to the previous. I put them in a garbage bag and was carrying it out when the bag moved and I heard a meow. I opened the bag and found one kitten had survived. So I drowned it again.
And that is an exact one thousand.
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Also, don't miss the Chatroulette one: http://www.27bslash6.com/chat.html
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