Bad Analogies
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Well, before you reject the idea out of hand, you might want some details on the compensation package beyond compensation, stock options, health care, lightning insurance, relocation benefits, etc. : 1. does it include two wives/mistresses from some exotic foreign countries like Midia and Cush ? 2. how big will thy rod and thy staff be : exactly how powerful. 3. will the perq of "smiting your enemies" require slaughtering children (of the Midianites, for example) for The Boss. 4. are free hallucinogens included ? 5. what other bonuses : like manna, etc. are provided. 6. does the necessity of constant fumigation of the Boss' office with the smoke of blood of sacrificed animals present any health risks to you due to indirect or direct smoke inhalation ? best, Bill
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BillWoodruff wrote:
how big will thy rod and thy staff b
No comment.
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But a bad haircut after a week or so will not be so bad. A bad analogy doesn't likely improve with age.
BDF A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool. -- Moliere
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Some recruiter just emailed me stating a company was looking for a Moses to lead their team. I replied that I couldn't promise it would take 40 years. Is there just a book of bad analogies out there? Or am I just overly sensitive to improper allusions?
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest HemingwayEnnis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
Some recruiter just emailed me stating a company was looking for a Moses to lead their team.
Let's hope it's not my client (you know of whom of speak). As my nom de plume was/is Moses. When this name was first applied, I responded, well, let's hope I can at least enter the promised land. So far, I appear to been living up to the reputation. I've broken the commandments over the golden ox already. What were you saying about bad analogies? Marc
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Only if you can explain what Gomorrahy is.
You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always got punched out when I reached 4.... -- El Corazon
Well, according to "God: the Ultimate Autobiography" by Jeremy Pascall (the "holy ghost-writer"), God mumbles something about Gomorrahmy. All that is intelligible is that it somehow involved a goat and a plunger. BTW, if you want to laugh, pick up that book. It's amazing.
Have faith in yourself; amateurs built the Ark, professionals built the Titanic.
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But a bad haircut after a week or so will not be so bad. A bad analogy doesn't likely improve with age.
BDF A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool. -- Moliere
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Moses seems like a VB kinda guy. I would run to a galaxy far far away.
Todd Smith
WTF??? He walks down a mountain (probably barefoot), in a big old unruly beard, he rants and raves, he's in a bad mood, and he's got rules engraved in stone. That definitely sounds like a C++ programmer to me!
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Some recruiter just emailed me stating a company was looking for a Moses to lead their team. I replied that I couldn't promise it would take 40 years. Is there just a book of bad analogies out there? Or am I just overly sensitive to improper allusions?
Need a C# Consultant? I'm available.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway -
I think he means that you are going to bring down the plagues on the clients. Obviously this is a mixed bag - on the one hand, you've got the fun of causing all the pestilence, etc... on the other hand though, you will be responsible for the sacrifice of all of the first born requirements. BTW - the project requirements will be delivered to you out of a burning bush. On a sad note - Charlton Heston isn't available to play you in the film version.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
On a sad note - Charlton Heston isn't available to play you in the film version.
bows head in respect :rose:
Software Zen:
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Some recruiter just emailed me stating a company was looking for a Moses to lead their team. I replied that I couldn't promise it would take 40 years. Is there just a book of bad analogies out there? Or am I just overly sensitive to improper allusions?
Need a C# Consultant? I'm available.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest HemingwayThey want you to burn bushes? :cool:
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Moses seems like a VB kinda guy. I would run to a galaxy far far away.
Todd Smith
Bite your tongue. Moses (especially the Charleton Heston version) was definitely a C/C++, native application sort. None of this namby-pamby-ooooh-I-can't-manage-my-own-memory crap for him.
Software Zen:
delete this;
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But a bad haircut after a week or so will not be so bad. A bad analogy doesn't likely improve with age.
BDF A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool. -- Moliere
Big Daddy Farang wrote:
A bad analogy doesn't likely improve with age.
That's absolutely not true. Anyone remember this one? --> "A programmer trying to use a good analogy is like a chicken trying to farm broccoli. There's never enough tire pressure." - brianwelsch This one's so bad it's beautiful and it NEVER gets ugly!
Mike Poz
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Some recruiter just emailed me stating a company was looking for a Moses to lead their team. I replied that I couldn't promise it would take 40 years. Is there just a book of bad analogies out there? Or am I just overly sensitive to improper allusions?
Need a C# Consultant? I'm available.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest HemingwayMaybe he wanted you to part the Red Code? ;)
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I think he means that you are going to bring down the plagues on the clients. Obviously this is a mixed bag - on the one hand, you've got the fun of causing all the pestilence, etc... on the other hand though, you will be responsible for the sacrifice of all of the first born requirements. BTW - the project requirements will be delivered to you out of a burning bush. On a sad note - Charlton Heston isn't available to play you in the film version.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
On a sad note - Charlton Heston isn't available to play you in the film version.
That would get you a man point. If real men worried about them :doh:
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
There's a Lot
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WTF??? He walks down a mountain (probably barefoot), in a big old unruly beard, he rants and raves, he's in a bad mood, and he's got rules engraved in stone. That definitely sounds like a C++ programmer to me!
¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! VCF Blog
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Bite your tongue. Moses (especially the Charleton Heston version) was definitely a C/C++, native application sort. None of this namby-pamby-ooooh-I-can't-manage-my-own-memory crap for him.
Software Zen:
delete this;
Fold With Us![^] -
I think he means that you are going to bring down the plagues on the clients. Obviously this is a mixed bag - on the one hand, you've got the fun of causing all the pestilence, etc... on the other hand though, you will be responsible for the sacrifice of all of the first born requirements. BTW - the project requirements will be delivered to you out of a burning bush. On a sad note - Charlton Heston isn't available to play you in the film version.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Big Daddy Farang wrote:
A bad analogy doesn't likely improve with age.
That's absolutely not true. Anyone remember this one? --> "A programmer trying to use a good analogy is like a chicken trying to farm broccoli. There's never enough tire pressure." - brianwelsch This one's so bad it's beautiful and it NEVER gets ugly!
Mike Poz
Well you almost got me there. But I said, "doesn't likely." That gem is quite unlikely, the exception that whatever it does.... Please have another 5 with my complements. :)
BDF A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool. -- Moliere
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Some recruiter just emailed me stating a company was looking for a Moses to lead their team. I replied that I couldn't promise it would take 40 years. Is there just a book of bad analogies out there? Or am I just overly sensitive to improper allusions?
Need a C# Consultant? I'm available.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway -
Well, according to "God: the Ultimate Autobiography" by Jeremy Pascall (the "holy ghost-writer"), God mumbles something about Gomorrahmy. All that is intelligible is that it somehow involved a goat and a plunger. BTW, if you want to laugh, pick up that book. It's amazing.
Have faith in yourself; amateurs built the Ark, professionals built the Titanic.