That actually happened to me. I was working for a defense contractor, and my manager (a hell of a good guy) came to me and two other people, and told us that the "project from hell" had asked for us by name. The first words out of my mouth (without thinking) were, "I quit". The other two guys said variants of the same thing.
This wound up getting bumped up to the executive VP level, before we were allowed to stay on our current project. I think it also raised some red flags that three highly regarded engineers would quit rather than work on that project.
Meanwhile, the other two guys were close to retirement age, so they weren't concerned if they really had to quit, but I was shitting bricks for a while worrying that my threat would be taken up. It wasn't a bluff, but I wasn't sure how I'd explain it to my wife.
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Didn't Kari pose in Playboy?
It's the end of the world as we know it ...
and I feel fine
Hey it ain't an illegal drug, it's Salvia!
Yep.
is as legit a retraction as you can find.
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Reading the subject of this post, all I could think of was Robert DeNiro saying "Hell I don't know why ANYONE would want to be a Navy Diver1"
And now, neither can the rest of us.
Alas, I appear to be the only one who got the Jim Morrison reference,too.
I don't know about that, but...
Jim Morrison is spinning in his grave.
Nah, that's only useful for rhodomagnetics.
We're talking about Audis, right?
This joke was too easy. I considered posting it earlier, but I figured someone else would do it.
Oh, oh, and I almost forgot. Ahh, I'm also gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday, too...
That actually happened to me. I was working for a defense contractor, and my manager (a hell of a good guy) came to me and two other people, and told us that the "project from hell" had asked for us by name. The first words out of my mouth (without thinking) were, "I quit". The other two guys said variants of the same thing.
This wound up getting bumped up to the executive VP level, before we were allowed to stay on our current project. I think it also raised some red flags that three highly regarded engineers would quit rather than work on that project.
Meanwhile, the other two guys were close to retirement age, so they weren't concerned if they really had to quit, but I was shitting bricks for a while worrying that my threat would be taken up. It wasn't a bluff, but I wasn't sure how I'd explain it to my wife.
You're not using "Noscript"?
Wrong. The Agena rendezvous and docking were part of the Gemini program, as research into RV & docking.
The LEM was carried in the S4B-CSM interstage fairing.
"Hanny's Voorwerp" would be a great name for a Rock Band.
Dammit!!!! You beat me to the punch!
+1 Agnew reference
Oh come on. How else can we give hundreds of billions of dollars to Wall Street banks? We all have to make sacrifices for them!
Won't somebody think of the bankers?
They knew about the chimps -- Chimps and Dolphins are why Homo Sapiens was considered an patron species.
Yep. Nothing evil to see here.
[AOL] Me too [/AOL]
How much do I owe Ballmer? According to my Fans tab, I have 38 fans (as of this post).
I need to learn to preview
Sorry, MOS Technology. Call it a seniorI didn't have the manual in front of me when I typed that.
The manual is the:
MCS6500
MICROCOMPUTER FAMILY
PROGRAMMING MANUAL
JANUARY 1976
Second edition
(c) MOS TECHNOLOGY INC 1976