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20th March 07, 06:03 AM
#41
The greatest thing you'll ever learn,
is just to love, and be loved in return. -Nat King Cole
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20th March 07, 06:36 AM
#42
 Originally Posted by Doc
"The optimist sees the glass as half full, the pessimist half empty, I want to know who's been drinking my beer?!"
"The optimist sees the glass as half full, the pessimist half empty, the engineer notes that the glass is too large"
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20th March 07, 06:40 AM
#43
The way things have been going lately, this one from Babylon Five comes to mind very often...
"Yes, yes, Zathras is used to being beast of burden to other people's needs. Very sad life. Probably have very sad death, but at least there is symmetry. Go, go, Zathras take care."
Zathras, War Without End, Part I
Best
AA
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20th March 07, 06:48 AM
#44
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
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Someone from a previous generation observed that life is easy; "you just need to endure the unendurable, suffer the insufferable, tolerate the intolerable, or put another way, life is too important to take too seriously"
And my corollary to that is: Never take yourself too seriously.
Jim Killman
Writer, Philosopher, Teacher of English and Math, Soldier of Fortune, Bon Vivant, Heart Transplant Recipient, Knight of St. Andrew (among other knighthoods)
Freedom is not free, but the US Marine Corps will pay most of your share.
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20th March 07, 06:55 AM
#45
 Originally Posted by wsk
"The optimist sees the glass as half full, the pessimist half empty, the engineer notes that the glass is too large"
No, no, no...
The salesman says the glass is half full.
The accountant says the glass is half empty.
The design engineer says the glass has 100% redundant capacity.
The graphic designer says the ad copy is going to be hard to produce because the glass and the water have similar refractive indices, and are making Pantoning the image very "interesting."
The support engineer knows that none of this matters, because the end user is going to spill the glass into their keyboard and open a trouble ticket on the problem.
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20th March 07, 06:56 AM
#46
TheSp8 and wsk, thanks for some really great ones.
Here's one I claim as my own though I may have heard from someone else decades ago:
"The most important thing I have learned in my life is how much I do not know."
Jim Killman
Writer, Philosopher, Teacher of English and Math, Soldier of Fortune, Bon Vivant, Heart Transplant Recipient, Knight of St. Andrew (among other knighthoods)
Freedom is not free, but the US Marine Corps will pay most of your share.
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20th March 07, 07:26 AM
#47
 Originally Posted by Caradoc
The salesman says the glass is half full.
Wouldn't a real salesman promise that the glass would be full to the rim on delivery?
 Originally Posted by Caradoc
The accountant says the glass is half empty.
For tax purposes I suppose, but not for an IPO.
 Originally Posted by Caradoc
The design engineer says the glass has 100% redundant capacity.
No he wouldn't. A marketing weenie might, but an engineer? Never.
 Originally Posted by Caradoc
The graphic designer says the ad copy is going to be hard to produce because the glass and the water have similar refractive indices, and are making Pantoning the image very "interesting."
Agreed.
 Originally Posted by Caradoc
The support engineer knows that none of this matters, because the end user is going to spill the glass into their keyboard and open a trouble ticket on the problem.
Confirmed! Confirmed! New and improved idiots, etc.
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20th March 07, 07:29 AM
#48
And the Quality Assurance folks would remind you the recepticle was poorly designed for the task at hand.
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20th March 07, 09:30 AM
#49
One of my favourites..
"Life is like eating spaghetti....if your face isn't dirty, you're not having fun."
Gentleman of Substance
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20th March 07, 09:46 AM
#50
See my signature line below. I added the part about my son and the chicken. The rest is plagiarized from somewhere.
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