Re: Hiring Tech Support (Politically Incorrect, With Apologies Beforehand to Ritu)
On 19 Dec 2005, at 3:45 am, Julia Thompson wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: (I did hear from someone who said he has talked to Mujibar several times, and each time he gave a different name . . . ) Maybe Dell hires someone else. :) (Or were any of these occasions for Dell tech support? Maybe I just get lucky.) I know some (at least) call centres in the UK have a policy of workers using false names since some unfortunate incidents when unhappy customers have tracked call-centre workers to their homes to continue a discussion. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Those who study history are doomed to repeat it. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
NZ devil Santas terrorise Auckland
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/19/santa_rampage/ When St Nick goes bad By Lester Haines Published Monday 19th December 2005 13:45 GMT The shaken residents of Auckland, New Zealand, are today recovering from a terrifying ordeal provoked by 40 rioting Santas who robbed stores, assaulted security guards and, shockingly, urinated from highway overpasses, as The Sydney Morning Herald reports. Auckland Central Police operative Noreen Hegarty told the paper how the rampage began last Saturday when the bad Santa collective (drunk and wearing ill-fitting Santa costumes) chucked beer bottles and relieved themselves from the aforementioned overpasses. They then rushed through a central city park, overturning garbage bins, throwing bottles at passing cars and spraying graffiti on office buildings. One Santa climbed the mooring line of a cruise ship and was quickly arrested for his trouble. Other Santas at the scene objected and piled into security staff who subsequently required paramedical attention. To cap this orgy of disorder, several Santas then went into a convenience store and made off with beer and fizzy pop. Owner Changa Manakynda recalled: They came in, said 'Merry Christmas' and then helped themselves. The devil Santas are apparently members of a worldwide movement - dubbed Santarchy - and designed to protest the commercialisation of Christmas. Three of their number were arrested during the Auckland anti-Yule uprising. Police are currently looking for 37 other men described as wearing red coats, red hats and sporting big white beards. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible. - Bertrand Russell ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
RE: NZ devil Santas terrorise Auckland
William T Goodall wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/19/santa_rampage/ When St Nick goes bad 40 rioting Santas who robbed stores, assaulted security guards and, shockingly, urinated from highway overpasses Sounds like some people have been watching too many Ben Edlund cartoons. :-) Jim Will anyone get this? Maru ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Help me identify 80's cop show...
Gary Nunn wrote: http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/hills/1742/ Click on Made for TV near the end of the page, see if anything there looks familiar. (And if this leads you to it, you have a guy named Scott to thank.) Julia Wow, give my thanks to Scott :-) The eighth entry down on the page is it: BAKERY, THE (UNSOLD PILOT) CBS 1990. 60 mins. Set in Police Station, in a burned out BAKERY. Over the course of 3-time periods 65/89/2001!! **GREAT** (1) Now if I could only find a tape or DVD. Actually, the guy with that geocities page may have it and be able to send you a DVD. Check out his site more thoroughly. Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Hiring Tech Support (Politically Incorrect, With Apologies Beforehand to Ritu)
William T Goodall wrote: On 19 Dec 2005, at 3:45 am, Julia Thompson wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: (I did hear from someone who said he has talked to Mujibar several times, and each time he gave a different name . . . ) Maybe Dell hires someone else. :) (Or were any of these occasions for Dell tech support? Maybe I just get lucky.) I know some (at least) call centres in the UK have a policy of workers using false names since some unfortunate incidents when unhappy customers have tracked call-centre workers to their homes to continue a discussion. Dan got burned by Dell Laptop tech support (for some reason, that seemed to be the only Dell tech support I heard horror stories about) and started asking for badge numbers at the beginning of tech support calls. So he'd know who to refer to if he had to escalate to a manager. Absolutely no problems with any of my calls -- but I've never owned a laptop myself. (And laptop support may have improved since I heard all the horror stories. Gateway, on the other hand, took entirely too long to resolve my friend's problem with her tablet.) Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Hiring Tech Support (Politically Incorrect, With Apologies Beforehand to Ritu)
At 06:17 AM Monday 12/19/2005, William T Goodall wrote: On 19 Dec 2005, at 3:45 am, Julia Thompson wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: (I did hear from someone who said he has talked to Mujibar several times, and each time he gave a different name . . . ) Maybe Dell hires someone else. :) (Or were any of these occasions for Dell tech support? Maybe I just get lucky.) I know some (at least) call centres in the UK have a policy of workers using false names since some unfortunate incidents when unhappy customers have tracked call-centre workers to their homes to continue a discussion. I've always figured all the names that customer support people and telemarketers give are pseudonyms, and not only because on the few occasions I have had to do something of the sort I have used a pseudonym . . . --Ronn! :) Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country and two words have been added to the pledge of Allegiance... UNDER GOD. Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that would be eliminated from schools too? -- Red Skelton (Someone asked me to change my .sig quote back, so I did.) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Fwd: Hiring Tech Support (Politically Incorrect, With Apologies Beforehand to Ritu)
At 09:45 PM Sunday 12/18/2005, Julia Thompson wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 11:53 AM Sunday 12/18/2005, Julia Thompson wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: Mujibar was trying to get a job in India. The Personnel Manager said, Mujibar, you have passed all the tests, except one. Unless you pass it you cannot qualify for this job. Mujibar said, I am ready. The manager said, Make a sentence using the words Yellow, Pink and Green. Mujibar thought for a few minutes and said, Mister manager, I am ready. The manager said, Go ahead. Mujibar said, The telephone goes green, green, green, and I pink it up, and say, 'Yellow, this is Mujibar.' Mujibar now works as a technician at a call center for computer problems. No doubt you have spoken to him. Uh, no. Everyone I've talked to on computer tech support that sounded like they were at least raised in India had better enunciation. Note from the subject line that I only forwarded it . . . Yes, I did notice that. I just wanted to set the anecdotal record straight. :) (I did hear from someone who said he has talked to Mujibar several times, and each time he gave a different name . . . ) Maybe Dell hires someone else. :) (Or were any of these occasions for Dell tech support? Maybe I just get lucky.) He didn't say. --Ronn! :) Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country and two words have been added to the pledge of Allegiance... UNDER GOD. Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that would be eliminated from schools too? -- Red Skelton (Someone asked me to change my .sig quote back, so I did.) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: NZ devil Santas terrorise Auckland
William T Goodall wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/19/santa_rampage/ When St Nick goes bad By Lester Haines Published Monday 19th December 2005 13:45 GMT The shaken residents of Auckland, New Zealand, are today recovering from a terrifying ordeal provoked by 40 rioting Santas who robbed stores, assaulted security guards and, shockingly, urinated from highway overpasses, as The Sydney Morning Herald reports. [snip] Austin Santa Rampages are a lot more polite than that. Sheesh. Anyone want to see the Austin Santa Rampage rules? (I had dinner once with the Santa Rampagers in Austin three years ago, during the eat before drinking stage. They're really cool.) Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
RE: Help me identify 80's cop show...
Gary Nunn wrote: Someone at CBS must have *truly* hated this show.. There's not even an IMDB entry for it. IMDB are us. If nobody entered it, there can´t be an entry. For some time, I bothered to enter data [usually about br movies or TV series], but I soon got tired of it - specially when I started finding more errors in the data I fed than in the data I was reading from other people O:-) Alberto Monteiro ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Help me identify 80's cop show...
Gary Nunn wrote: http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/hills/1742/ Click on Made for TV near the end of the page, see if anything there looks familiar. (And if this leads you to it, you have a guy named Scott to thank.) Julia Wow, give my thanks to Scott :-) I sent him a link to your post. He's glad to have helped you. :) Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Communing with Satan in Madison Wisconsin
On Dec 18, 2005, at 7:53 PM, Julia Thompson wrote: The Fool wrote: http://mediamatters.org/items/200512140012 O'REILLY: -- in the South, Richmond Times[-Dispatch], for example. BAIN: Right. O'REILLY: Now, this is a conservative city, Richmond. I mean, this is not Madison, Wisconsin, where you expect those people to be communing with Satan up there in the Madison, Wisconsin, media. Excuse me? Everyone I've ever met that ever lived in Madison was a nice person, and not at all the sort to be communing with Satan. Unless this guy equates Unitarians with Satanists, which would be one of the most laughable things I've encountered this month... Perhaps you're not familiar with Mr. O'Reilly: he's the right's front- man on, for example, the purported war on Christmas, and given to making vicious pronouncements about people anywhere to the left of Benito Mussolini. Dave ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: A visit from St. Dick
On Dec 18, 2005, at 11:13 AM, The Fool wrote: www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/story/13982068p-14815643c.html 'Twas the month before Christmas And as I lit candles, Conservatives stirred -- They were onto a scandal. They want to kill Christmas! I mentioned this at a Christmas party yesterday, and one of the guests shot back St. Dick: he's that guy who only comes once a year... Dave ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Communing with Satan in Madison Wisconsin
Dave Land wrote: On Dec 18, 2005, at 7:53 PM, Julia Thompson wrote: The Fool wrote: http://mediamatters.org/items/200512140012 O'REILLY: -- in the South, Richmond Times[-Dispatch], for example. BAIN: Right. O'REILLY: Now, this is a conservative city, Richmond. I mean, this is not Madison, Wisconsin, where you expect those people to be communing with Satan up there in the Madison, Wisconsin, media. Excuse me? Everyone I've ever met that ever lived in Madison was a nice person, and not at all the sort to be communing with Satan. Unless this guy equates Unitarians with Satanists, which would be one of the most laughable things I've encountered this month... Perhaps you're not familiar with Mr. O'Reilly: he's the right's front- man on, for example, the purported war on Christmas, and given to making vicious pronouncements about people anywhere to the left of Benito Mussolini. I've heard so much about him I really don't want to watch him, I'll put it that way. :P Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: A visit from St. Dick
On 12/19/05, Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 18, 2005, at 11:13 AM, The Fool wrote: www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/story/13982068p-14815643c.html 'Twas the month before Christmas And as I lit candles, Conservatives stirred -- They were onto a scandal. They want to kill Christmas! I mentioned this at a Christmas party yesterday, and one of the guests shot back St. Dick: he's that guy who only comes once a year... Weren't you at a *church* Christmas party yesterday? Hmmm. Nick -- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages: 408-904-7198 ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: A visit from St. Dick
Nick Arnett wrote: On 12/19/05, Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 18, 2005, at 11:13 AM, The Fool wrote: www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/story/13982068p-14815643c.html 'Twas the month before Christmas And as I lit candles, Conservatives stirred -- They were onto a scandal. They want to kill Christmas! I mentioned this at a Christmas party yesterday, and one of the guests shot back St. Dick: he's that guy who only comes once a year... Weren't you at a *church* Christmas party yesterday? Hmmm. The first exposure I got to that sort of innuendo (a little more innocuous, but still...) outside of stuff I was reading were my parents' friends from church. The whole bit about the knocker was the one I remember most vividly. Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Fwd: Hiring Tech Support (Politically Incorrect, With ApologiesBeforehand to Ritu)
Of course if you're working in tech support and relying on someone to Translate for you that is both a non-native English speaker AND under 18, a 5 minute call becomes 2hrs... Damon, not a happy camper... Sent from my BlackBerry wireless handheld. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Hiring Tech Support (Politically Incorrect, With ApologiesBeforehand to Ritu)
On Dec 19, 2005, at 3:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sent from my BlackBerry wireless handheld. A Canadian BlackBerry wireless handheld, no less. Dave ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Help me identify 80's cop show...
On 12/19/05, Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gary Nunn wrote: http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/hills/1742/ Click on Made for TV near the end of the page, see if anything there looks familiar. (And if this leads you to it, you have a guy named Scott to thank.) Julia Wow, give my thanks to Scott :-) I sent him a link to your post. He's glad to have helped you. :) Julia Glad it was found - an interesting search project. I had looked there but didn't make it to the bottom and check the made for TV. -- Gary Denton http://www.apollocon.org June 23-25, 2006 Easter Lemming Liberal News Digest - http://elemming2.blogspot.com ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: A visit from St. Dick
On Dec 19, 2005, at 2:15 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: On 12/19/05, Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 18, 2005, at 11:13 AM, The Fool wrote: www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/story/13982068p-14815643c.html 'Twas the month before Christmas And as I lit candles, Conservatives stirred -- They were onto a scandal. They want to kill Christmas! I mentioned this at a Christmas party yesterday, and one of the guests shot back St. Dick: he's that guy who only comes once a year... Weren't you at a *church* Christmas party yesterday? Hmmm. Heavens, no! It was a Lutheran elementary school party. The lewdness of the comment says far more about the guest in question (and her estimation of my ability to handle it) than it does about the party. I'm sure that there were at least one or two guests who weren't engaging in bawdy repartee. Dave ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: NZ devil Santas terrorise Auckland
Jim Sharkey wrote: Sounds like some people have been watching too many Ben Edlund cartoons. :-) Jim Will anyone get this? Maru Yes, from the Multiple Santa episode of The Tick. :-) __ Steve Sloan . Huntsville, Alabama = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brin-L list pages .. http://www.brin-l.org Science Fiction-themed online store . http://www.sloan3d.com/store Chmeee's 3D Objects http://www.sloan3d.com/chmeee 3D and Drawing Galleries .. http://www.sloansteady.com Software Science Fiction, Science, and Computer Links Science fiction scans . http://www.sloan3d.com ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
