Writing Quicktakes: Legislative complaints

[baxil]

A quicktake from the recent Writing Requests thread. More are on the way. Thank you all again for your creative kickstarts. :-)

Dear Citizen

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[mr_silvers]

I do believe you, sir, have too much time on your hands.

Google is seriously on the ball today.

[baxil]

Okay, that's scary.

This may help. There's a few Jewish-language in-jokes in the piece.

[baphnedia]

You know, you could tie in Customer Support Week and NaNoWriMo with the backlog of Robosenator requests. No plot. Just a look into your world of complaints and responses... :P

[baxil]

Bonus trivia to reward you for clicking through to the comments!

The prior support request number (#27B-6/10984262001) is composed of two concatenated pop culture references. 27B stroke 6 is from the movie Brazil, and probably recognizable; 10,984,262,001 is from the final line of Rhythm Corps' "Number Song,"* is completely and unfairly obscure, and is the number I pull out of my brain whenever I need to rattle off something that sounds huge and precise.

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* "On a day light reached the earth / From 10 billion, 984 million, two hundred and sixty two thousand and one / Light years away."

[amthrax]

I was half way through watching Brazil for the second time in about ten years when you posted this.

I've been out of touch with blogs for a few years. You might remember me from the dartboard problem you and roaminrob came up with ages ago: I forwarded the problem to the friend I was rooming with, who forwarded it to an old IRC friend of his who turned out to be roaminrob.

Who turned on the improbability drive?

[roaminrob]

Clearly, tests are still being run at the LHC.

Cool! I haven't been on IRC in a looooooong time. Have you heard from Ambs/Dan recently?

[necama]

Actually, they're currently warming up the LHC to repair (or replace) a superconducting magnet that turned out to not support the current load required to do the experiment (read: quenched and heated up to 100 K almost immediately, resulting in about 1 ton of liquid heilum boiling off very quickly).

They probably won't start running experiments until next year.

[chipuni]

This is wonderful. Thank you!