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Nice to see you're safe Steve! You got out of Dodge in the nick of time then? (Just read your thread! So you stayed and endured and cut your thumb! Silly boy, but happy you are safe!)

Purrrrr

?? He looks older than 40

Nice one...made I larf muchly

Oddly enough, that's usually where I'm to be found, too...

The Condemned (New to Condemned Room 4)

When the earth was created, the powers above,
Gave each man a job to work at and love.
He made doctors and lawyers and plumbers and then,
He made carpenters, singers, and confidence men.
And when each had a job to work as he should,
He looked them all over and saw it was good.

He then sat down to rest for a day,
When a horrible groan chanced to come his way.
The Lord then looked down and his eyes opened wide,
For a motley collection of bums stood outside.
"And what do you want?" the creator asked them,
"Help us," they cried out, "A job for us men".
"We have no profession," they cried in dismay,
"And even the jails have turned us away".
Said the Lord, "I've seen many things without worth,
But here I find gathered the scum of the earth!"

The Lord was perplexed, and then he was mad,
For the jobs were all gone, there was none to be had.
Then he spoke aloud in a deep angry tone,
"Forever and ever ye mongrels shall roam,
Ye shall freeze in the summer and sweat when it's cold,
Ye shall work on equipment that's dirty and old,
Ye shall crawl under raised floors, and there cables lay,
Ye shall be called out at midnight and work through the day,
Ye shall work on all holidays, and not make your worth,
Ye shall be blamed for all downtime that occurs on the earth,
Ye shall watch all the glory go to software and sales,
Ye shall be blamed by them both if the system then fails.
Ye shall be paid nothing out of sorrow and tears,
Ye shall be forever cursed, and called ENGINEERS!"

That is so me!!

And all the bums said "Amen".

Amen

Alas, and Alack, but...Amen... That is so all of us.

Are you the author? Very actual and just verses. Looks like anthem.

No, I am not the author. I think it was written by a Sociology Dept. 'student' to insult us. This was at my old university. We liked it so much it became our rally banner. It has changed slightly since 30 years ago but can still be seen hanging in our alumni hall as a framed plaque. The photo of Niels Bohr is hanging next to it (physics and engineering were in the same building).

Yes, I guessed something like an alumni poetry. Unfortunatelly, we had nothing so funny like this, unless endless commy slogans. One of them is belonging to Lenin who said:"Communism is Soviet Power plus electrification of the country a whole". The friend of mine naively asked ours teacher:"If this equation is a true, isn't it means that: Electrification of the country a whole is Communism minus Soviet Power? Either Soviet Power is Communism minus electrification of the country a whole?"

Your friend had a good understanding of logic.

Thank God Lenin spoke a lot. The demagogues that followed could never argue against his words and the Hermitage would be an empty place today.

Czech saying "They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work for them" .....said it well.