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Dispatch from DesWorld #6
Check your calendars, everyone. Today is the anniversary of D-Day. D-Day was the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944. I give this helpful definition because my co-worker Dave did not know what I meant when I said, "Whoa, today is the anniversary of D-Day".
Des, however, knew what D-Day meant, & proceeded to point out that, no matter how we may feel about our jobs on Monday morning, being at work at URS was certainly preferable to being in a troop transport on the English Channel, preparing to storm a beach guarded by machine gun emplacements.
He's been offering cheerful variations upon this theme all morning:
"While it's true that filling out Job Authorization paperwork is tedious & hateful, surely you can agree that it is better than being ordered to take out an entrenched German artillery squad."
"... it's better than fighting through hedgerows."
"... better than house-to-house fighting in some small, formerly scenic French village."
"... better than riding a Horsa glider into a marsh."
And I suppose he's got a point.
Dispatch from DesWorld #5.
Dispatch from DesWorld #7.
Des, however, knew what D-Day meant, & proceeded to point out that, no matter how we may feel about our jobs on Monday morning, being at work at URS was certainly preferable to being in a troop transport on the English Channel, preparing to storm a beach guarded by machine gun emplacements.
He's been offering cheerful variations upon this theme all morning:
"While it's true that filling out Job Authorization paperwork is tedious & hateful, surely you can agree that it is better than being ordered to take out an entrenched German artillery squad."
"... it's better than fighting through hedgerows."
"... better than house-to-house fighting in some small, formerly scenic French village."
"... better than riding a Horsa glider into a marsh."
And I suppose he's got a point.
Dispatch from DesWorld #5.
Dispatch from DesWorld #7.
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Des would be quite pleased to know that he has his own vicarious column in your Live Journal. And this one is surely my favorite thusfar.
Shall we tell him that only the inferior British Horsa gliders crashed into marshes while the much more stable, American Wacos only burst into flames upon impact with the ground?