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We have probably all heard them, stories we would love to be true but . . .
Here's my first offerings:
From a colleague:
"My neighbour's dog kept crapping on my lawn, despite my complaints. I was all for scooping it up and dumping it through his letterbox - but the wife vetoed that. So I scooped it up into a paper bag and put that on the neighbour's "Welcone" mat outside his front door.
Then I rang his bell and waited until i saw him walking towards the door - when I set fire to the paper bag. Then I watched him stamping the flames out!"
Heard in the RAF, back when the UK had the "Womens' Royal Navy Service, WRNS or Wrens) before it all got integrated, a standing order was issued:
"The Chief Officer WRNS (COW) will hencforth be known as the Senior Officer WRNS (SOW)."
If true it did not really improve matters . . .
Got any to relate?
This doesn't fit your definition but it was an interesting story, apparently untrue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_helmet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_helmet)
Quote from: Bad Penny II on July 01, 2018, 02:53:18 AM
This doesn't fit your definition but it was an interesting story, apparently untrue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_helmet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_helmet)
Dawkins tried that on one if his progs
https://youtu.be/Isab058nfLc
Many years ago there was a welder at Newport News Shipbuilding named Charlie who was assigned carbon arcing school. Being an older fellow who didn't want to spend any more time carbon arcing than he had to - carbon arcing is a nasty process - he didn't go. The next day he showed up at his usual area at the usual time.
Charlie's supervisor was upset and told him he needed to report to the school. Charlie refused to go so the supervisor got someone higher up the ladder to tell Charlie he had to go to school. Charlie still refused to go and was called into one of the office buildings with both supervisors.
In the office, both supervisors and the low level executive they met with told Charlie he had to go to school. In response Charlie asked for a piece of paper and proceeded to write down a phone number. He told the bosses to call that number and ask the man on the other end if he had to go to carbon arcing school.
It turns out that the number was that of Charlie's bank. The manager informed the bosses that Charlie was worth several million dollars. If he didn't want to go to carbon arcing school he didn't have to. He didn't need the job either way.
Quote from: jumbojak on July 04, 2018, 06:24:44 AM
Many years ago there was a welder at Newport News Shipbuilding named Charlie who was assigned carbon arcing school. Being an older fellow who didn't want to spend any more time carbon arcing than he had to - carbon arcing is a nasty process - he didn't go. The next day he showed up at his usual area at the usual time.
Charlie's supervisor was upset and told him he needed to report to the school. Charlie refused to go so the supervisor got someone higher up the ladder to tell Charlie he had to go to school. Charlie still refused to go and was called into one of the office buildings with both supervisors.
In the office, both supervisors and the low level executive they met with told Charlie he had to go to school. In response Charlie asked for a piece of paper and proceeded to write down a phone number. He told the bosses to call that number and ask the man on the other end if he had to go to carbon arcing school.
It turns out that the number was that of Charlie's bank. The manager informed the bosses that Charlie was worth several million dollars. If he didn't want to go to carbon arcing school he didn't have to. He didn't need the job either way.
It's nice when your bosses can't hold your job over your head :)