notes from Worky McWorkerson

[antof9]

Dr. Seuss at work
An email came in this morning from someone with a name so unbelievable I thought it was an April Fool's joke. The question then became, "Who consciously decides, when their last name is Flam, to name their son Sam?" And then of course it had to be said, "Sam Flam I am I am - I eat green eggs and ham."

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Comments

[inkognitoh]

Your worky entry made me laugh muchly. I like teh funneh :)

[antof9]

happy to share teh smilez :)

(specially if it grants me my favorite icon of yours)

[amyleaton]

Hah - I used to know a guy that talked like that. He said things like "Lawn Guyland" instead of "Long Island". (I saw someone spelling it out that way somewhere and it is exactly how he'd say it!) always made me laugh!

[antof9]

*giggles*

The funny thing about this whole call? There were probably 15 (or more) different accents. A lot of our programmers are from India or Russia, so we had those accents. We also had several people on from London and a handful from Zurich, which could be Swiss, German, French, and Italian (or a combination of all of the above), and a variety of others. There's even a really thick-talking Texas guy! But yeah, the one I heard that my ear commented on the most, was the "Lawn Guyland" guy. And I heart you for sharing that spelling with me!

[pootski]

I had a moment like that yesterday. I saw a name on one of the banquet booking sheets - First name Merella. Middle initial M. Last name Merulla.

What were her parents thinking?

[antof9]

oh Dear! Merella M. Merulla?! It's like a bad joke! Poor thing. She probably wants to marry a guy named "Smith" :)

[alrescate]

Damn. I'm going to have to mark the name Terrell of my list of possible baby names!

Conference calls

[nice_cup_of_tea]

My 2 main bug bears (is that really how you spell it? looks wrong, so wrong) are:

1. People who type whilst listening to the call - WE CAN STILL HEAR YOU TYPING, even if you do it softly!!

2. When all the participants are swiss or speak fluent german, then we get one non-swissy, and EVERYONE has to speak english, with varying levels of success - and the non German speaker doesn't even acknowledge the shift!