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Brrring Brrring....
Sep. 11th, 2007 01:40 pmPeople who work in offices seem to get all sorts of training opportunities these days, so how come so many people make an unmitigated balls-up when they record answerphone messages?
The classic error is to waste 30 seconds on irrelevant tittle-tattle (a bit like the opening levels of a live Hold em tournament) only to be forced to a rushed "all-in" conclusion, when the absent telephone answerer says "I can be contacted on my mobile at 7blubba64blubba2blub". End of message. So you call the number again, and have to listen to the 30 seconds of rubbish, to try to get the mobile number down as quickly as possible. Tossers.
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The immaculate first episode of the last nine episodes of The Sopranos had the reviewers focusing on the fight that breaks out between Tony and his brother in law. But the cognoscenti would have been more interested in the "Free Parking" rule that Edie Falco uses in the Monopoly game, whereby fines went into the middle of the board and the money that accumulated was "scooped" if you landed on Free Parking.
The Steve Schirippa character observed that Parker Bros put a lot of work into designing the game, and you shouldn't just change the rules on a whim. Of course, what he should have said was "for god's sake, this game takes long enough without us inserting an inflationary rule whereby more money gets injected into the game". Then again, it's so long since I played Monopoly, perhaps the game also ends when the bank runs out of money, like in 1830.
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Man, too tired, too tired. What was the saying? "Work to live, don't live to work". I seem to have taken a wrong turning somewhere. I want out from it all.
The classic error is to waste 30 seconds on irrelevant tittle-tattle (a bit like the opening levels of a live Hold em tournament) only to be forced to a rushed "all-in" conclusion, when the absent telephone answerer says "I can be contacted on my mobile at 7blubba64blubba2blub". End of message. So you call the number again, and have to listen to the 30 seconds of rubbish, to try to get the mobile number down as quickly as possible. Tossers.
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The immaculate first episode of the last nine episodes of The Sopranos had the reviewers focusing on the fight that breaks out between Tony and his brother in law. But the cognoscenti would have been more interested in the "Free Parking" rule that Edie Falco uses in the Monopoly game, whereby fines went into the middle of the board and the money that accumulated was "scooped" if you landed on Free Parking.
The Steve Schirippa character observed that Parker Bros put a lot of work into designing the game, and you shouldn't just change the rules on a whim. Of course, what he should have said was "for god's sake, this game takes long enough without us inserting an inflationary rule whereby more money gets injected into the game". Then again, it's so long since I played Monopoly, perhaps the game also ends when the bank runs out of money, like in 1830.
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Man, too tired, too tired. What was the saying? "Work to live, don't live to work". I seem to have taken a wrong turning somewhere. I want out from it all.
