Tamara P. Duvall wrote: > She sits down and just as she is about to be told what to do she says > ..... > > "I know I know!! Feed the monkeys, and don't touch anything."
This reminds me of when I used to be a telephone engineer and worked in the telephone exchanges (no - really I used to be a telephone engineer and work in the telephone exchanges - that's not the joke!! Stop laughing David) ... ... anyway, the old joke used to be that exchange needed a only a man and a dog to run it - the dog was there to stop the man touching anything. We used to have a monthly magazine for our local union branch and I always remeber a story that one of the older engineers told. When he was a young apprentice, he used to occasionally work the night shift with an older engineer who always insisted on bringing his dog in with him when on night shift. Now, having an animal on the premises was not allowed and the apprentice was warned never to tell anyone that the dog was brought in, the older guy just couldn't bear to leave the dog at home because it pined. Well, each time he was on night shift the old boy would suggest they took it in turns having a sleep but every night, the exchange would always suddenly go down at about 2:30am for no apparent reason. However, on the shifts where he didn't work with the older guy and his dog the exchange was robust and didn't fall over. Intriged by this, he decided to stay awake and see what happened. Well, about 2:15am the older guy fell asleep when he was supposed to monitoring the exchange whilst the kid slept. Then about 2:20am the dog suddenly woke up and walked out of the door - so the young lad followed him. The dog walked around the exchange for about 10 minutes and then stopped by the generators, cocked his leg and relived himself. Then walked back. The generators, now being covered in liquid fizzled and cut out. The lad realised that this was what was happening every night. And, because the generators were hot, the liquid was evapourating before they could find it and discover the cause. Not sure what to do, the lad decided that he didn't want to upset the older guy so he just asked to be moved to a different shift. Apparantly the exchange carried on falling over every night at 2:30am until the guy retired and the exchange manager never did find out what was causing it. -- Regards Liz B To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
