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[11B4V]

Fried spam on toast with miracle whip: 

That's some good chow there.

[Ed Anger]

Fried spam on toast with miracle whip: 

That's some good chow there.

It is too good for most of the Assburger babies on languish.

[DGuller]

Does your wife's family call them that?  Even the FOTB Ukes I know call them pyrogy.

Absolutely. They never use the term pierogy or pyrogy.

Huh.  Whereabout in Ukraine are they from?

Near Lviv, originally - so Western Ukraine. They are Catholic, Western Ukrainians - very much into Ukrainian nationalism.

Yes, they're called vareniki.  Pierogi would be confusing, because pirog means a pie.

[jimmy olsen]

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jonmichaelpoff/world-geography-test?utm_term=.bmJ3w2ZN8#.pfWgx5Dka

Sent the above quiz to my employees. One picked Iceland when quiz asked for Ireland as well as Brazil when asked about Argentina.

I suck at Central America, I didn't know Guatemala and had to take a chance. I failed.

25 for 25! 

[The Brain]

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jonmichaelpoff/world-geography-test?utm_term=.bmJ3w2ZN8#.pfWgx5Dka

Sent the above quiz to my employees. One picked Iceland when quiz asked for Ireland as well as Brazil when asked about Argentina.

I suck at Central America, I didn't know Guatemala and had to take a chance. I failed.

25 for 25! 

Good job!

[The Larch]

Siemens-Alstom merger just announced.

I didn't even have time to learn French.   

Hey, you and my brother will now work for the same company.

He used to work for Bombardier until may, and apparently they were also in talks to merge with Siemens. Some of his former coworkers just said something akin to "hopefully we'll be working together again in a few months".

[Savonarola]

Hey, you and my brother will now work for the same company.

He used to work for Bombardier until may, and apparently they were also in talks to merge with Siemens. Some of his former coworkers just said something akin to "hopefully we'll be working together again in a few months".

Yes, we were talking to Bombardier as well; everyone is looking to get bigger in order to compete with CRRC.  Even post merger Siemens-Alstom will be smaller than CRRC.

[Savonarola]

In the GE-Alstom divorce my high powered laptop was replaced by an abacus.  I've been trying to get a desktop since then, but nothing showed up.  Today IT finally tracked it down, it went to Melbourne, Australia () rather than Melbourne, Florida ().  It's been reassigned and I'm back to the back of the line.

Usually I'd be all about that, but it's better than the time we were trying to get a contract to Santa Marta, Colombia, and our office secretary sent it to Santa Marta, Cambodia.  At least Melbourne, Australia is a real place.

[Iormlund]

 

You gotta love multinationals.

Last year an accountant in Colombia (IIRC) somehow managed to send an email to the whole organization about some bill. Needless to say, a LOT of people hit Reply All asking to be removed from the email chain and flooded everyone's inbox for hours. My fav reply came three hours in, when a guy sent Michael Jackson's popcorn eating .gif.

[DGuller]

You gotta love multinationals.

Last year an accountant in Colombia (IIRC) somehow managed to send an email to the whole organization about some bill. Needless to say, a LOT of people hit Reply All asking to be removed from the email chain and flooded everyone's inbox for hours. My fav reply came three hours in, when a guy sent Michael Jackson's popcorn eating .gif.

I think HR should create a rule that automatically terminates the employment of everyone who replies to these e-mails.

[Zanza]

You gotta love multinationals.

Last year an accountant in Colombia (IIRC) somehow managed to send an email to the whole organization about some bill. Needless to say, a LOT of people hit Reply All asking to be removed from the email chain and flooded everyone's inbox for hours. My fav reply came three hours in, when a guy sent Michael Jackson's popcorn eating .gif.

That happened in my organisation a couple years ago. About 50.000 recipients for an email and like 1% used reply all. Must have cost millions in lost work time.

[viper37]

Your CdM feelgood story of the day

[CountDeMoney]

  Sweet

[Josquius]

You gotta love multinationals.

Last year an accountant in Colombia (IIRC) somehow managed to send an email to the whole organization about some bill. Needless to say, a LOT of people hit Reply All asking to be removed from the email chain and flooded everyone's inbox for hours. My fav reply came three hours in, when a guy sent Michael Jackson's popcorn eating .gif.

That happened in my organisation a couple years ago. About 50.000 recipients for an email and like 1% used reply all. Must have cost millions in lost work time.

I see it all the time. Not in the entire company luckily, but usually in mails around the whole IT org, there'll be one or two Indians replying to ask what they personally are expected to do about this worldwide downtime or the like.

[garbon]

In important news:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/oct/01/marilyn-manson-struck-by-falling-stage-scenery-during-new-york-concert

Marilyn Manson struck by falling stage scenery during New York concert

The rock star Marilyn Manson has been hospitalised after a stage prop fell on him while he performed in New York.

The musician, 48, was hurt when two large prop guns held together with metal scaffolding toppled over during his show at the Hammerstein Ballroom on Saturday.

Images from the scene suggest he attempted to climb up the guns before they crashed down on him. Reports from Twitter users say he laid on stage for up to 15 minutes before he was taken to hospital in a stretcher.

Video footage taken by Twitter users appearing to show the incident has appeared online.

The US news publication TMZ reported that the accident occurred while Manson was performing the Eurythmics' Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) about an hour into his show.

He was taken to hospital but it was not yet known how serious his injuries were.

Yousif Al Zaid, 23, who was at the show in New York said: "It happened in the middle of his song Sweet Dreams. He performed it and all of a sudden he climbed on to the two guns ... At end of the song he bent over holding one of the poles [on the prop] and tipped over. Then it all went silent and you could hear a pin drop. Everyone rushed to him and there were rumours he was dead. Then they brought out a stretcher and he was taken away.

"On my Twitter feed today people are saying he has only broken his leg or fractured his ankle, but there's no official news yet. It's crazy actually – when he fell they closed the curtain on the stage and dimmed the lights. They then escorted everyone out."

Another person, who was in the front row and asked to remain anonymous, said: "From my view point in the front row it didn't look like he put that much weight on it [the prop] when it started tipping. He tried to brace himself and push it back but it completely tipped and fell on him. Two or three of his crew members rushed to get it off of him quickly."

"Around this time his girlfriend, she'd been watching from a chair on the side of the stage, rushed over to him. His girlfriend rushed off to the stage within moments with her hand over her mouth and clearly panicked ... the security guard near me said they had paramedics on site. It was another minute or two before actual medics started to get on stage."

She added: "It was really surreal to watch him play live. It was great but it was sad for it to end like that, was not really part of the plan."