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By nightflameblue (Thu Aug 07, 2008 at 10:20:35 AM EST) (all tags)
You don't say.

Political breezes. Life's funny little moments. Stupid is as stupid does in business.



So, Hillary Clinton said at a speech recently that she feels the only way to truly bring the party back together is to make sure the delegates that voted for her have their voice heard. I have a feeling the people who's pants were around their ankles when Hillary bowed out originally aren't going to say much about that.

And at this point, that's all I'm saying about it too. That, and, "hold on."

BREAK

So, through pure randomness I watched Craig Ferguson last night for the first time in several weeks. Topic du jour? Motorcycles.

We have tickets to the Supercross at the fairgrounds on Saturday.

It seemed like there was a v-twin cruiser rocking by the house about once every ten seconds all night long.

I mentioned all this to Mrs. NFB this morning and she says, "It's like when you just break up with someone, all you can see is couples everywhere."

Except, well, actually, she does have a point. If only I could ride the darned thing. I told her when I got home last night, "I didn't go visit the other woman today, but I heard her calling me when I drove past the storage shed."

"You're not going to forget that comment are you?"

"No, I'm not."

BREAK

We had our quarterly meeting yesterday. Now, we have a crapateria that actually serves some pretty damned good food regularly. So what do we do on days we have the quarterly meeting + free lunch for employees? Shut down the crapateria and have them make nothing but hot dogs and beans. And not good hot dogs either. Big bastard hot dogs that, individually, could fill up a family of four and that have the quality that makes you suspect it's the stuff that didn't qualify to be included in dog food.

So, the IT department, mostly BB and myself, were curious about who makes that decision, quarter after quarter, and started trying to track down who thought it was a good idea in the first place.

The entire management team hate them even more than we do, being somewhat older and even less able to digest the damn things.

The HR team, supposedly actually in charge of these grand events, won't cop to it.

The dude who runs the crapateria ain't happy about it either, because he's presented the same idea many of the employees have presented since he's been open, "run the crapateria like normal that day, and put the bill on Funhouse. People get to try the food he serves every day that normally wouldn't, he gets advertising for his lunch business, Funhouse really wouldn't be charged much more than they are now because the hot dogs are available on the regular menu at the same price as a slice of pizza or a cheese burger." He told us every quarter that idea is shot down by the big guy as unreasonable.

When confronted, the big guy, Mr. President to us underlings, says, "THOSE HOT DOGS ARE GAWD'S OWN FOOD!" Then proceeds to make fun of the awful things for the next fifteen minutes. That's his way of saying he didn't make the decision either.

The investigation stalled at that point. No one's copping to it, and no one seems willing to change it now that it's in place. So, blue fog of death hanging over the Funhouse on quarterly meeting days from here to eternity. FUNHOUSE, WOOHOO!

That's it. Outz.

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Say that you're Vegan or need Halal/Kosher by theboz (2.00 / 0) #1 Thu Aug 07, 2008 at 10:36:55 AM EST
No hot dogs then, and if they don't cater to your dietary restrictions, they'll get in trouble.  If you get to choose, pick some nice vegetarian Indian food.
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Oh no, they've thought of that. by nightflameblue (2.00 / 0) #2 Thu Aug 07, 2008 at 10:50:43 AM EST
If you're vegetarian, you get an apple and a banana instead of a hot dog. Because, you know, that's a healthy vegetarian meal there.

I suppose health wise it is better than the hot dog itself.



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Innabun by Breaker (4.00 / 1) #3 Thu Aug 07, 2008 at 11:03:54 AM EST
Or Onnastick?


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Bun. by nightflameblue (2.00 / 0) #8 Thu Aug 07, 2008 at 03:10:58 PM EST


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And I'm cuttin' me own throat by Breaker (2.00 / 0) #9 Thu Aug 07, 2008 at 05:47:19 PM EST
Sausageinnabunannywun?


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TOO MANY JOKES! by nightflameblue (4.00 / 1) #10 Thu Aug 07, 2008 at 05:50:49 PM EST
MUST ABORT!

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You know what you can do with that? by theboz (2.00 / 0) #7 Thu Aug 07, 2008 at 03:08:22 PM EST
Shave the apple to look like a scrotum, with bits of the peel curled up and trimmed skinny to look like red pubic hair.  Then, peel the banana, cut a ridge around the top about 1/5 of the way down, and attach it to the apple with the ridge facing out.  Then go throw it in your president's face and tell him to suck it.  Make sure you have all of that on video, post it on Youtube, and make lots of money in marketing CafePress tshirts with photos of the apple/banana combo and the phrase "Suck it!"
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Please by Phil the Canuck (2.00 / 0) #4 Thu Aug 07, 2008 at 11:40:02 AM EST
Like there's any meat in those dogs.

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Why not start small? by ObviousTroll (2.00 / 0) #5 Thu Aug 07, 2008 at 11:41:49 AM EST
Suggest that they upgrade the dogs to summer sausage or similar...?


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They make a mean brat in there on regular days. by nightflameblue (2.00 / 0) #6 Thu Aug 07, 2008 at 12:45:50 PM EST
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