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649.1 | | KAOFS::S_BROOK | Here today and here again tomorrow | Thu Apr 06 1989 16:23 | 9 |
| Out placement => layed off or fired
Not to mention all those engineering jobs that have occured in recent
years ...
Sanitation Engineer => Trash collector
Sanitary Engineer => Plumber
Domestic Engineer => Cleaner
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649.2 | | BOSHOG::CLIFFORD | | Thu Apr 06 1989 16:40 | 4 |
| How about the FDA's Drug Delivery Device ==> cigarette
--andy
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649.3 | Can you differentiate in 3 variables? | MARRHQ::SBSDEV1 | The Appelation Controlee' Trail | Thu Apr 06 1989 23:06 | 10 |
| ...or how about: "Field Service Engineer"?
It's funny, U of M had a college of engineering with schools of
Aeronautical, Chemical, Civil, Mechanical, Architectural, Electrical,
and even Software engineering, but I'll be damned if I could find
a school of "Field Service" Engineering! 8^|
Rgdz,
- A *real* Engineer -
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649.4 | | FENNEL::SOMES | | Mon Apr 10 1989 19:00 | 3 |
| I take exception to Domestic Engineer = cleaner. Domestic Engineer=
housewife.
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649.5 | | AITG::DERAMO | Daniel V. {AITG,ZFC}:: D'Eramo | Mon Apr 10 1989 19:08 | 8 |
| re .4
>> I take exception to Domestic Engineer = cleaner. Domestic Engineer=
>> housewife.
No, that's "Domestic Goddess" = housewife.
Dan
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649.6 | civil, ain't I? | COOKIE::DEVINE | Bob Devine, CXN | Mon Apr 10 1989 19:08 | 3 |
| I take exception to "take exception". Isn't it clearer to say
"I disagree" or "If you hadn't said that, I wouldn't be forced
to tear your head off".
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649.7 | | PSTJTT::TABER | It offends my freakin' dignity | Mon Apr 10 1989 21:19 | 5 |
| I disagree with your taking exception to "take exception" in favor of
"I disagree." To take exception is an exceptional case of not accepting
without being as disagreeable as to disagree. Indeed it conveys agreement
with exceptions to accepting exteranious excursions into excess. It is not
as clear as "eat death" however.
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649.8 | This is exceptional | KAOFS::S_BROOK | Here today and here again tomorrow | Mon Apr 10 1989 21:42 | 26 |
| To take exception implies a certain amount of taking offense as
well as disagreement.
So to the person who took exception to domestic engineer as cleaner
and not housewife, how about the househusband ? These housepeople
are far more than domestic engineers, they are:
Domestic - managers
- administrators
- transportation co-ordinators
- nutritionists
- educational facilitators
- landscape architects
- part-time sanitary engineers
- sanitation engineers
- part-time home repair contractors
the list goes on and on and on and on and on
Now are you sure the house-person is just a domestic engineer?
So, to all the exception taking and disagreeableness in this note
I can only say two words -
Tough beans!
Stuart
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649.9 | | PASTIS::MONAHAN | humanity is a trojan horse | Tue Dec 07 1993 06:17 | 2 |
| Don't have time to copy LOBLO::EF93 note 5.1859 here, but it surely
qualifies.
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649.10 | | FORTY2::KNOWLES | Per ardua ad nauseam | Mon May 22 1995 07:29 | 8 |
| Not sure if this is the best note for it, but in an internal document
(source suppressed to protect the guilty) I found this brilliantly
compressed mixture of euphemism and gobbledegook:
...individual contributors are being
impacted by transition ...
b
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649.11 | | AUSSIE::WHORLOW | Bushies do it for FREE! | Tue May 23 1995 23:54 | 4 |
| G'day,
... supporting the posture that key contributors are not?
djw
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