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- Path: sparky!uunet!scorn!scolex!charless
- From: charless@sco.COM (charles stross)
- Subject: Re: Radio stations
- Organization: The Somewhat Contagious Operation, Inc.
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 10:24:16 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.102416.3520@sco.COM>
- References: <1992Jul16.225208.17997@twg.com> <39140@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> <l6dnmjINNikl@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>
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- In article <l6dnmjINNikl@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
- >
- >In article <39140@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> Claudio.Terrorist@ed.ac.uk
- >(ObTerrorist) writes:
- >
- >>Whistlers should be shot right on the spot (I volunteer for the job).
- > >Agreed. The ones I really can't stand are the ones who whistle with
- >that horrible warble. Old men tend to whistle like that.
- >
- >Geoff
-
- Seconded ... but what about the finger-clickers? Finger-snapping
- is almost as bad as whistling. Then there are the desk-drummers.
- Worst of all are the officemates-from-hell who do *all three*
- activities asynchronously, to different tunes. They always seem to
- have a taste in music that makes me want to throw up, too; the
- number of times I've been subjected to a rattling, tapping jerk
- whistling The Birdie Song in E flat minor ...
-
- On the other hand, there are honourable exceptions. At my last
- company -- a weird hotbed of graphics hackers who aren't on
- the net -- there were some very strange rituals. For example,
- once an hour, on the hour, the C doctor (a bald eccentric,
- who was later tear gassed in a karaoke bar) would spin round
- in his chair, sit bolt upright, and begin juggling a set of
- luminous green furry dice. The other programmers would take
- this as their cue, spin round in their chairs until they were
- facing into the centre of the room, and whistle the theme tune
- to The Magic Roundabout in chorus until he dropped the dice. Then
- everyone would spin back to their workstations and get their
- heads down before the Hardware Designer from Hell (who was also
- The Boss) started throwing transputers at them.
-
- As Technical Author, it was my job to pick up the dice.
-
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