A Face to the Name thread

[gbeenie]

"McJob" was coined by Douglas Coupland in the novel Generation X.

[acoletterose]

No, I think she was pulling a hercules and keeping the walls from crushing her and the photographer. 

Or she's pulling a Samson, and, after getting a bad grade from a pissy teacher, she's trying to bring the building down.

I like that one.

F'ing Lab teacher

[Kzinistzerg]

I used to work for this huge corporation--I had to interview, on and off, for three months just to get a stupid customer service job--and one of my greatest language pet peeves was fed there.

I used to get emails (and, occasionally, voicemails) from other employees (including one of the company's vice presidents) which would state something along the lines of, "Mr. So-and-So called me about the order you're handling, but I couldn't look at the information because it's password-protected, so I guess it's a mute point."

Um, excuse me?  I couldn't hear the point you were making BECAUSE IT CAN'T SPEAK.

On my last day there (and I understand this makes me a terrible person), I replied to every email containing "mute point" with the following message:

"MOOT!  MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT!  IT'S 'MOOT POINT,' YOU F*CKSTICK!  MOOT!

"Have a great day,
[call_me_nuveena]"

So what do people do when they tell you they tried to do something, but it was "in vein"?

[jewishcarpenter]

Kinda of an old picture, riff at your leisure.

[call_me_nuveena]

Kinda of an old picture, riff at your leisure.

OH NOES!  YOU IS BE KILLED DED!

[Sharktopus]

If Night Of The Living Dead had an all-Jesus cast.


That's a damn good Photoshop job.

[gbeenie]

I used to work for this huge corporation--I had to interview, on and off, for three months just to get a stupid customer service job--and one of my greatest language pet peeves was fed there.

I used to get emails (and, occasionally, voicemails) from other employees (including one of the company's vice presidents) which would state something along the lines of, "Mr. So-and-So called me about the order you're handling, but I couldn't look at the information because it's password-protected, so I guess it's a mute point."

Um, excuse me?  I couldn't hear the point you were making BECAUSE IT CAN'T SPEAK.

On my last day there (and I understand this makes me a terrible person), I replied to every email containing "mute point" with the following message:

"MOOT!  MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT!  IT'S 'MOOT POINT,' YOU F*CKSTICK!  MOOT!

"Have a great day,
[call_me_nuveena]"

So what do people do when they tell you they tried to do something, but it was "in vein"?

Cut their wrists, and ask them if they're bleeding from their "vains."

[jewishcarpenter]

That's a damn good Photoshop job.

Thanks, I try to do quality work.

[Dr.Impossible]

Kinda of an old picture, riff at your leisure.

It's Yakov Smirnoff VS his evil twin!

In soviet russia, shop photos you!

[RobtheBarbarian]

Kinda of an old picture, riff at your leisure.

I'd make a quip about it being your Mirror Universe twin trying to kill you, but you both have goatees. Which brings up an interesting idea: would your evil Mirror twin have no goatee? Or a bigger goatee?

[Junkyard]

He wears one right over the other.

[Sharktopus]

Alternate universe JewishCarpenter has no beard, to distinguish from his evil twin.

[RobtheBarbarian]

Or maybe it was a transporter accident like that one time when we ended up with two Will Rikers. That was funny, especially when the new Riker started to act all dangerous.

[Rude]

...

Don't you guys get it?! He is the evil alternative universe jewishcarpenter.
God knows what he's up to... but he must be stopped!

-Rude

[Sharktopus]

Or maybe it was a transporter accident like that one time when we ended up with two Will Rikers. That was funny, especially when the new Riker started to act all dangerous.

The only danger Jonathan Frakes poses is chewing the scenery. He's what my roommate calls a "TV actor." You know, the ones who end every scene staring unfocused at some fixed point in the distance?