Pete Dashwood wrote:
>> Fortunately, in the book business, this silliness is irrelevant.
>> Publishers traditionally assign a different ISBN/EAN to each packing
>> quantity, leading often to "You ordered 3 PALLETS of 'Collectable
>> Locomotives' ?!! Have you been sniffing ****pping cartons again?"
>
> Thanks for posting this. Informative, interesting, and VERY
> amusing... :-)
Thank you, I guess.
I learned, during my tenure as a cop, that people are basically funny. If
you stress 'em a bit, the facade of civilization drops away. Ask any cop,
ambulance driver, emergency room worker, or fire fighter and they can tell
you stories. Even better than the ones a bartender hears. It is this
experience that finely-honed my sense of devilment. Now, I can't help it.
There's admittedly not much funny about COBOL, but if you visit the
tx.guns
newsgroup, we get to comment on real people doing real things. Just today,
there's posts on "Man goes all Conan on a camel" (about a chap who said
"hold my beer and watch this" then slugged a camel at an amusement park)
and
"Oh, just another day at the office" (soldier's cell-phone gets its redial
button ro his parents tapped while he's engaged in an Afghan fire-fight).
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