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Aug-23-2006 22:01

I have created a sleuth miracle!

IT IS THE UNHIJACKABLE THREAD!

Go ahead and try, but this thread is about anything and nothing, all at the the same time!

This is the place where Al can talk about world domination, Crunch can worship David Hasselhoff, SS can try and find even more complicated questions for his pub quizzes, Nikkie can advertise for Tim Tams, cfm can troll for more Sharpie victims, JR can beg for the chance to win Bobo back, and bedazzling can be a way of life!

So go off, rant and rave, talk about anything, i don't care, I just wanted to see my avatar on the page (when its actually me anyways)

So go ahead, I dare you all to try and hijack me :)

Sep-17-2008 17:15

you eat penguins instead of tim tams? knew you English were err nuts. Don't their little flippers get stuck in your teeth?

Sep-19-2008 22:29

We didn't celebrate two years of this thread!

Sep-20-2008 22:20

It's all your fault, Yoyo! You forgot to remind us!

Sep-21-2008 16:04

I still work at that place.....sigh...way up there^^^^

Sep-21-2008 17:21

I knew someone who worked in the call center of a company that everyone thought was so great.

Turns out, they made everyone sign in a book (and log the time) on their way into the bathroom, and sign out (and log the time) when they left the bathroom. And then they talked about the amount of time you spent in the bathroom during your monthly review. And, heaven forbid you went to the bathroom too often, or stayed in there longer than they thought you should...

... yes, they actually fired people for it.

Sep-21-2008 23:17

OMG. Tim Tams!!!!!! I actually have something to add to the Sleuth community, which is rare. Currently work for Campbell Soup (who many of you may not know own Arnott's in AUS who own Tim Tams) and I have access to a never-ending supply of Tim Tams (due to the project I am on recently expanding to Australia). Anyone who wants a case, let me know and I will send it to you :-)

BTW... I tried one for the first time last week. They are prety damn good.

Oct-3-2008 09:20

Time for some halloween fun, here are some rather intricate pumpkin carvings:

http://studenthacks.org/2007/10/28/pumpkin-carving-designs/

Oct-6-2008 19:43

@annika:

That's WORLDS different from the I.T. call center my friends worked at. They'd ask someone to hold while they "checked their connection from our end" and would actually go to lunch- often with their shift manager. Other than failing a drug test it was almost impossible to get fired there.

Oct-9-2008 08:28

If you had purchased $1,000.00 of Delta Air Lines stock one year ago you would have $49.00 left.

With Enron, you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1,000.00.

With WorldCom, you would have had less than $5.00 left.

But, if you had purchased $1,000.00 worth of beer one year ago, drank all of the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND, you would have $214.00 cash.

Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle. It's called the 401-Keg

A recent study found the average American walks about 900 miles a year. Another study found Americans drink, on the average, 22 gallons of alcohol a year. That means, on average, Americans get about 41 miles to the gallon.

Makes You Proud To Be An American!

Oct-9-2008 16:46

This amused me from my news feed:

A public servant (in Australia) was finally busted faking illness to avoid work after telling his boss he was suffering from lung cancer.

Apparently he had been faking medical certificates for years.

But he went too far when he produced a letter, reportedly from the head of the oncology unit at Canberra Hospital, stating he needed surgery for lung cancer.

It was just a pity that his boss cared enough to go to the hospital to visit him. Ba-bow!

Ironically the guy worked for the DEWR - The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations :s