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UPDATED: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 11:12
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Wednesday, November 23, 2005 11:04 AM

SO I’m still at work and it’s 9 p.m. on a horrible Wednesday and I haven’t left my desk for some 11 hours …

A recent spate of posting on my log has got me wondering, damn it, even, I might go so far as to say, curious …

What is the single most insane thing you have ever done to liven up your working day??

Points will be awarded for both inventiveness and embarrassment factor …

To start the ball rolling I will tell you all that, prior to my recent criminal spate of kidnappings perpetrated on innocent staplers and the like, I behaved quite well in my current (new) job …

The only thing I did do was totally by mistake – I use a red ink pen to mark up documents (you know, an old fashioned one). I had a spot of bother with a cartridge one day and then went in to see my very important (and quite cute) boss. He gestured to my face, saying “you’ve got a little something…” On leaving him I went to look in a mirror only to discover I had a huge slash of red ink spread across my face, pretty much from mouth to ear making it look like I had been remarkably imprecise when applying lipstick … most embarrassing!!!

I also once worked as a guide in one of the Royal Houses of England – there was a lot of marble statutory which made it very easy to play energetic games of “hunt the mint imperial” (a small English boiled sweet that looks remarkably like marble and fits neatly in the ear cavities and nostrils of busts) …

So over to you guys, what have YOU done to lighten up the office…

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Okay, I'm lost, I'm angry, and I'm
armed.

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Thursday, November 24, 2005 12:59 AM

SHINYTALENT

Craziest thing I have ever done at work was when I used to work at a sub making place- one night it was near closing and the place was dead so I decided to make myself a sub.

Using every single ingredient in the place:
Steak, Chicken, Ham, Onion, Capsicum, Olives, Lettuce and that was just what I could remember. I used every single dressing and condiment in the place too.

So there and just remember that brilliant quote: "Crazy beats big every time!"

The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds given adequate vacuuming systems.

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Thursday, November 24, 2005 1:02 AM

SHINYTALENT

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Monday, November 28, 2005 12:40 PM

REALLYKAYLEE

okay. i work at a quick service restaurant called chick-fil-a (note: against my will). when we're bored we take the new kids out back and tell them they need to go to confession. no one's ever catholic so they blunder through saying that they can't because they're protestant and stuff and sound like idiots. it's fun. but having wrote it it sounds kinda dull. we also deep fry pickles. i hate pickles.

shakespeare: more words than God.

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Monday, November 28, 2005 12:52 PM

FREMDFIRMA

Eh.. I drive a cab, guys, in detroit, year round.

Every DAY is an adventure in wildness of one form or another... even Joss couldn't dream up half the weird crap I run into on a semi-regular basis.

-F

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Monday, November 28, 2005 1:08 PM

DRE

A) I loved Chick-Fil-A when I was goin' to school in Tampa.

B) My brother and a friend and I went to Detroit to see the Dear Friends Uematsu symphony this last July. We stayed at a hotel and got a cab down to Orchestra Hall, and the cabbie we had was the nicest, most talkative, interesting guy we'd met in a long time (and on a road trip). We chatted about Detroit and history and the car cruise and all. We tipped him big.

Sorry ^^ Had to bring up that cause those previous posts reminded me of 'em.

IKIYO.
DRE

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Monday, November 28, 2005 3:55 PM

LIMINALOSITY

Breakroom sculpture made of every available (as in not nailed down) item of furniture and artifact (including staplers) in the place. Sculpture titled with a placcard on the wall.

Um, does after hours strip poker with fellow employees count as insane?

Thanks to viral marketing...SERENITY: reopening soon in a theater near you.
Shiny Trees! Yavanna made Shiny Trees!

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Tuesday, November 29, 2005 11:12 AM

SLIGHTLYJYNXED

I worked as the assistant manager at a movie theater during my last 2 years of highschool and my first years of college, and it was the best job I ever had. I will see if I can tick off some of the things that we did to alleviate the boredom, but I know I am leaving out some great ones!

1) One day, after closing, but sitting around until the last movie was out we sprayed down the entire lobby in front of the concession stand (this was an 8 screen theater, so you can image how much space this was) with water and "ice-skated" on it. It was that waxed tile that is slick as ice when wet. So much fun, but also lead to so many bruises!

2) We built a hover-craft out of a large shop-vacuum, a giant black trashbag, and a piece of plywood. Since the theater was in a mall, and we were buds with the mall security they let us borrow an extension cord (the longest I have ever seen mind you), move the benches out of the hallway, and use it around the mall. This thng would carry 2 people and was a stroke of brillance (our fun ended when we accidently slammed into the glass front of a Dillard's store and broke the plywood).

3) While working box-office (which is like being in a glass fishtank and extremely boring when not rush time) I managed to make one of those paper chains made out of all the little paper loops that was so long that when you stacked it all up was over six feet tall and about five feet across at the base. I kept storing it in the cubby under the counter until it wouldn't fit and then I just shoved it into the corner until my manager walked in. He just looked at me... looked at it... shook his head, and told me not to get tangled up in it and sue before he walked out of the room. It was made out of those little mini-poster that are promotional material for some movies (if memory serves they were "Spy Kids" posters, but don't hold me to that).

I know I have more, but that is juat a few of the ones that come immediately to mind.

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