J-M (with heavy French accent): …and now vee have zee tree per-son who get ze ‘ate wall certification. J: [raised hand] May I ask a question? J-M: Cer-tan-lee J: What’s ’eight wall’. J-M: It is zee next thing af-tur seven wall. * * * Perhaps this was one of those ‘you had to be there’ moments, but dang was it funny! J-M goofing on my old boss. Beautiful.
Revelation of the morning: “Piano Man” by Billy Joel is LIMERICKS! He says, son, can you play me a memory? Im not really sure how it goes But its sad and its sweet and I knew it complete When I wore a younger mans clothes Now john at the bar is a friend of mine He gets me my drinks for free And hes quick with a joke or to light up your smoke But theres someplace that hed rather be ...
Having passed him on my way out to lunch that day,… Jeff Roberts - May 3, 2007 Having passed him on my way out to lunch that day, I’m left to wonder if EY inspired her hair gel comment. :-)
I’ve been through many bad meetings at LXK, but my 3 o’clock yesterday ranks right up there as one of the worst. Ingredients * Meeting shouldn’t have happened. It’s a meeting that should’ve been a whiteboarding session between me and one other guy. * Six people, each with a slightly different agenda. * No common manager, hence no one to make a decision if there’s a conflict. Anyway, so it’s a meeting past my threshold of exhaustion (I suck at meetings after 3pm…it’s too late in the day and my brain is tapioca.). ...
“[Because I talk so much] I need to put in 12 to 15 hours per day just to get in 8 hours of work” Yikes.
“Assuming I can get this to work”
[Scene. Interior. A Conference room with a conference table shaped like a badly-imagined Star Trek insignia contains folks awaiting an early morning call. A dark-skinned Indian fellow, running the meeting sits across from a dark-skinned Brazilian man with curly hair. The Brazilian man’s humor is less infectious than he’d like to believe.] Brazilian guy: I love languages. I know how to say ‘good morning’ 25 languages. Indian guy: That’s nice ...
Oh, to be a fly on THAT wall. Unless, of course, … Jeff Roberts - Mar 5, 2007 Oh, to be a fly on THAT wall. Unless, of course, I’m the empty shell.
“Man, you look on edge. You haven’t even said anything and you just look totally stressed!” “My family tree isn’t so much a tree as a climbing, criss-crossing trestle of ivy.” “You ever wonder if Jesus told a lot of jokes? I have this vision of him telling all these blonde jokes then going, ‘No, really…they’re these people from up North. Scandinavia. Bah, what do you people know from comedy?! Oy Vey!’”
Character is doing the right thing when nobody is watching. -- Stu Brentzel
“Harold, Did you get dressed in the dark?”