Dispatch from DesWorld #6
Jun. 6th, 2005 01:38 pmCheck 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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