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1. Enthusiasm

2. Disillusionment

3. Panic

4. Search for the Guilty

5. Punishment of the Innocent

6. Praise and Honors for the Non-Participants

Another cool cartoon from bLaugh.

Another cool cartoon from bLaugh.

Punctuation Substitution is a terrific way of relieving your anger in a way that only you (and a few others…) know of.

I have a small plastic bag with dice in it stuck to my cubicle wall. Below it are instructions on how to use the “Project Time Estimator.”

The project director came into my cube a few days ago to ask how long a particular task would take. I got the trusty dice out, threw them and read off the number of hours. She said “You can’t do that!” whereupon I pointed out to her that I had been doing this for the last two software releases and it worked as well as any other method.

She wrote down the number of hours and quietly walked away.

Source: Dilberts newsletter.

For those of us using Yahoo Groups or other similar services:

One to change the light bulb and to post that the light bulb has been changed.

Fourteen to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently.

Seven to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs.

Seven more to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light bulbs.

Three to correct spelling/grammar errors.

Six to argue over whether it’s “lightbulb” or “light bulb”.

Another six to condemn those six as stupid.

Fifteen to claim experience in the lighting industry and give the correct spelling.

Nineteen to post that this group is not about light bulbs and to please take this discussion to a lightbulb (or light bulb) forum.

Eleven to defend the posting to the group saying that we all use light bulbs and therefore the posts are relevant to this group.

Thirty six to debate which method of changing light bulbs is superior, where to buy the best light bulbs, what brand of light bulbs work best for this technique and what brands are faulty.

Seven to post URLs where one can see examples of different light bulbs.

Four to post that the URLs were posted incorrectly and then post the corrected URL.

Three to post about links they found from the URLs that are relevant to this group which makes light bulbs relevant to this group.

Thirteen to link all posts to date, quote them in their entirety including all headers and signatures, and add “Me too”.

Five to post to the group that they will no longer post because they cannot handle the light bulb controversy.

Four to say “didn’t we go through this already a short time ago?”

Thirteen to say “do a Google search on light bulbs before posting questions about light bulbs.”

Three to tell a funny story about their cat and a light bulb.

AND
One group lurker to respond to the original post 6 months from now with something unrelated and start it all over again.

I know this joke is old and on its n’th tour around the net. Here are some other places with the same or similar joke: OZ, Jackson Four, just makin’ knots.

An image about Web 2.0 that I found over at bLaugh. Web 2.0 sometimes is more hype than reality.

PICNIC: Problem In Chair Not In Computer.
Shorthand of IT technical support staff to describe ‘confused’ users.

WYSIWYG: What You See Is What You Get.

WYGIWYD: What You Get Is What You Deserve.