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A salesman named Clive who worked for the old Ewart chain company out of England used to call on us many years ago. Clive was a funny bastard and his right eye was glass.

While discussing Clive's antics with someone he used to travel with he told me one of my favorite work related stories ever.

They were calling on a major project site in the mid 80's - Komati in Sudan - in truly the absolute middle of nowhere. They were in a hotel (think old western tv show type hotel) which had a bar and a single snooker pool table downstairs.

They were sitting there drinking and one of them noticed some of the locals playing pool had taken an interest in them which he surmised wasn't good. He quietly started warning them that they were being watched and maybe it was time to go.

Clive, already loaded, stood up and exclaimed "What, these frickers here?" and pointed to the guys playing pool. He strode over and said "Don't you worry, I'll keep an eye on them."

At which point, Clive popped his eye out and set it down on the pool table.

When that white man pulled his eye out of his head, those poor natives hauled arse and never looked back. Everybody in the place ran, even the bartender. :lol:

Clive laughed, washed his eye off in his glass, put it back in his head and finished his drink.

One of the best statistics isn't a superlative (farthest, fastest, oldest, etc) it is how slow it communicates, 160 bits per second.

An engineering monument to using your available bandwidth efficiently.

Yeah, I know that now and I knew that then. Anybody that ever dealt with the left or saw it operate knew it. Ray Charles could see this one coming.

Logically...

Two harmless gay men quietly getting married, living together peacefully in a nice neighborhood and keeping their lawn neatly mowed.

Your twelve year old daughter sharing a locker room with a clinically insane male with his pecker hanging out after he finished 6 minutes ahead of her at a cross country meet.

Your three year old son watching Sesame Street featuring a gang of singing, dancing transvestites.

Are all really the exact same thing. :lol:

In the early '90s I witnessed someone I used to work with break up over the phone with a deaf girl that he was dating.

All their calls were assisted where he talked to the operator, the operator typed what he said and it showed up on a screen at her house. She then typed her reply which was read to him by the operator.

After he said what he wanted to say, he had to use the words "go ahead" to let the operator know he was ready for them to transmit. They could not paraphrase, they type exactly what you say, verbatim.

"Alright, fine you fricking count, I'm through with this shite. You're fricking crazy anyway." .... "Go ahead" :lol:

George Carlin bit from one of his routines was - he had a friend who always concluded somebody had stole whatever he was looking for, not that he had lost or misplaced it and it was always something nobody would ever, ever want much less steal to get.

One of Carlin's examples was "you'll never believe...some sonofabitch STOLE my nude pictures of Ernest Borgnine."

I'll only give his first name - Maarten. I worked with him for a few years in the mid '90s and he was an older guy then so I presume he is likely deceased by now or close to it.

He was Rhodesian and served as a member of the Selous Scouts during Rhodesia's Bush War following their declaration of independence. Their fight was vs Mugabe's ZANLA which was a proxy for fellow communist Russia, Cuba and China who provided arms and training.

Had we, the UK or Australia supported the Rhodesians, they would have won easily despite being outnumbered over 10:1.

Google Selous Scouts and Rhodesian Bush War if you aren't familiar. He first person and freely admitted to me some absolutely terrible things he (they) did to other people - war crimes type stuff.

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Loose lips sink ships

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Incorrect, Louis Lipps sinks ships

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long-term

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I work for a company that went in business over 200 years ago (no shite, 219 years & verifiable).

They aren't afflicted with the disease of expecting double digit returns every year and making asinine, myopic decisions based on quarterly stock performance.

That's long term. American CEOs, institutional investors, fund managers and your average 401K account holders have no fricking idea what long term actually means.

Thailand, surprisingly not Florida.

LINK to Fox

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Two men suspected of being part of an international wildlife smuggling ring were caught with 81 monkeys and methamphetamine in Thailand over the weekend near the country's border with Cambodia, authorities said. 

Thai rangers stopped a vehicle on Friday in the Sa Kaeo province, where the monkeys were found stuffed into blue net bags.

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Nothing to see here, just your everyday, ordinary pickup truck bed filled with bags of monkeys.