I've decided that it might be kind of fun to have a tag system for the really GOLDEN posts here. To get it started, let's have people nominate posts they think were truly the best of what this community has to offer. If the community agrees, they'll get tagged "best of MTS"... future posts can be nominated as they come ( Read more... )

I used to purchase, among other things, machined parts for a medical instruments manufacturer ( Read more... )

They should never have mentioned that I could program sounds into my computer. They should have known it because they know me, and they should have known it because they know about the general human predilection for novelty. They should have known that showing me how to download sounds would be an indefinite period of noise pollution for the two ( Read more... )

Before anybody asks anything:
I work at a tech support line for MSN users. Most our customers are reasonable people who genuinely need help. And then we get calls like this.
This is as true and accurate a transcription as memory will allow. It just shows how amazingly stupid people can get to be.

Me: Thank you for contacting MSN Technical support ( Read more... )

First Post - Hi! To give a bit of background, I've RP'ed on the internet a lot, and IRL a bit. I've become quite adept at making things up on the spur of the moment. I also have a love for trivia, which I tend to memorize way easier then anything else ( Read more... )

I was given this after passing AP European History back in high school.

"History," declared Henry Ford, "is bunk." And yet, to paraphrase George Santayana, those who forget history and the English language are condemned to mangle them. Historian Anders Henriksson, a veteran of the university classroom, has faithfully recorded, from papers ( Read more... )

Reading recent accounts of stupidity in education, I was reminded of something I had to endure in grade 8 ( Read more... )

I used to work at a candle store here in PA ( Read more... )

Giggles and her boyfriend arrived in the restaurant I work at, just before I was to go home for the evening. They took a seat in my section and informed me that they were waiting for six of their friends to show up. They ordered two waters (of course), and said they wanted bread on the table at all times. I got the feeling there were no other ( Read more... )

A little background to this story. I work, fortunately in this case, in the back office of a library in the United States. Our director used to be a college librarian, one of the students from the college she used to work at was interning with us. The intern, who we'll call Ditz, her immediate family had moved to France just before she went to ( Read more... )