Re: Great Moments In Packaging

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If you were the youngest in the office, how could you not be the youngest guy? Assume we already know you're a guy.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 12-22-05 2:04 PM
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I was just editing that, you little shit.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 12-22-05 2:06 PM
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I took the distinction to mean that the men called for his assistance because of his youth and the women for his virility.


Posted by: Becks | Link to this comment | 12-22-05 2:09 PM
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How does that tie into the "package" double-entendre in the post title?


Posted by: Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 12-22-05 2:12 PM
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Right, you wouldn't ask the youngest woman in the office to move heavy items.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 12-22-05 2:17 PM
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I dunno -- I had a summer job with an engineering firm after my freshman year of college that turned into mostly moving file boxes of binders from one floor to another. Reasonable, considering there wasn't another useful thing I had any idea how to do.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 12-22-05 2:25 PM
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One of the jobs I had a little 90-lb. woman did a lot of the heavy lifting. She was an exercise freak and seemed to enjoy almost everything. Most of the rest of the crew were big strong grumbly passive-aggressives.

NOTE: I wasn't part of the same crew, and I did lots and lotsof heavy lifting on my own job. Everything isn't about me.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 12-22-05 2:55 PM
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In other news, busy day today, and I'm off to Chicago in a few hours, so maybe Unf will save you from yourselves.

Ogged can lift the packages but won't be moving the posts.


Posted by: Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 12-22-05 2:56 PM
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I just pulled something that weighs about 120lbs. out of a box, and underneath there was a note from the manufacturer: "Warning: Heavy." Someone came into the room and said, "There's no one else in here, but I hear you laughing."

The same thing happened to me, except I was on a bus to A which zipped right by A and made what I learned was a scheduled stop "en route" at B, many miles from A in the wrong direction. I found this absurdly funny.

The creepy fellow in the see-through blouse who buttonholed me at A was only funny in retrospect.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 12-22-05 6:18 PM
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The creepy fellow in the see-through blouse who buttonholed me at A was only funny in retrospect.

There's obviously such a story there....


Posted by: slolernr | Link to this comment | 12-22-05 9:30 PM
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Plus the mind kinda boggles at the hitherto-unrevealed fact that Standpipe Bridgeplate lives in the land of the single-character place names. It would put a low limit on the number of places that can be named. (Unless of course they use Unicode.)


Posted by: Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 12-23-05 6:00 AM
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Or Chinese.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 12-23-05 7:43 AM
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Chinese characters are a subset of Unicode. And obviously Standpipe Bridgeplate's country does not use exclusively Chinese characters to name places, since he has already been to A and B. (Unclear to me how somebody accosted him in A when he has previously said his bus zipped right by A; but perhaps he is referring to an earlier visit.)


Posted by: Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 12-23-05 7:59 AM
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I think the bus doubled back to A after making the stop "en route" to A.


Posted by: Tia | Link to this comment | 12-23-05 8:06 AM
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Completely off-topic, but everyone should go to Obsidian Wings and read this. And then, I don't know, write your Senators? Cry? I'm working on both.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 12-23-05 8:14 AM
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It zipped right by A to B, and then back to A, where, despite my gazing icily at my book, I was pulled into a conversation with Mr. Nipples and his tender shoots of armpit hair.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 12-23-05 8:17 AM
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Simulposted with Tia.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 12-23-05 8:19 AM
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As long as he didn't pull you in with his tender shoots of armpit hair...


Posted by: Tia | Link to this comment | 12-23-05 8:27 AM
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So SB is female? Are there guys offended by other guys armpit hair?

I suppose there are....


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 12-23-05 8:42 AM
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The see-through blouse of SB's admirer leaves SB's gender still up in the air, I think.


Posted by: Matt F | Link to this comment | 12-23-05 9:02 AM
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I think this is not insignificant evidence for the SB is female hypothesis I advanced at the meat-up. Obviously, nothing is conclusive, but it's more likely that a creepy guy would persist in attempts at conversation with a woman than with a man.


Posted by: Tia | Link to this comment | 12-23-05 9:02 AM
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I could 16 being a Will & Grace episode.


Posted by: ac | Link to this comment | 12-23-05 11:07 AM
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At least his armpit hair was still at the tender shoot stage. When they get all thick and woody there's hardly anything you can do with them.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 12-23-05 12:00 PM
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I don't know, but I'll bet Howard Hughes would have something to say about epic underarm hair growth.


Posted by: TJ | Link to this comment | 12-23-05 1:13 PM
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