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Ladyazh
Unfortunately not. By the definition used by TOPLESS, either a single programmer from an organziation (or multiple if they are exactly identical in ability) can be topless within the company or the entire department for a single company is tops in a field (which more directly relates to their definition).
When they say their vegetables are topless, they are essentially saying they are without peer (or if they have peers, their peers are not better vegetables than theirs).
So to be topless in this sense would require the singluar programmer or singular programming team to be with peer or with no peer greater than them.
As soon as there was someone better you would be topped, so any programmer, regardless of how talented they were, could not be topless unless there was no one more talented ahead of them.
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Ladyazh said:
Unfortunately not. By the definition used by TOPLESS, either a single programmer from an organziation (or multiple if they are exactly identical in ability) can be topless within the company or the entire department for a single company is tops in a field (which more directly relates to their definition).
When they say their vegetables are topless, they are essentially saying they are without peer (or if they have peers, their peers are not better vegetables than theirs).
So to be topless in this sense would require the singluar programmer or singular programming team to be with peer or with no peer greater than them.
As soon as there was someone better you would be topped, so any programmer, regardless of how talented they were, could not be topless unless there was no one more talented ahead of them.
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AnotherHiggins
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Dollie: I haven't seen one this year - have they changed it?
They always used to read "Have a Booger Mountain Christmas".
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They always used to read "Have a Booger Mountain Christmas".
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KenCunningham
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Strange the things that come into your head at 4am. I seem to remember 'Top Cat' being the toppiest, but the lyrics indicate that he's actually the 'tip-top' instead. I must have been mishearing the words all these years.
Think I'll go back to sleep now!
Think I'll go back to sleep now!
Alan Bennett said:
I worked at a place that had this quote from William A. Foster on the meeting room wall: “Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.”
Except is said "Quality IF". no one ever caught it.
DonBott
Founder
Eunich and Sons Inc.
Except is said "Quality IF". no one ever caught it.
DonBott
Founder
Eunich and Sons Inc.
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PatrickIRL
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- Jun 25, 2003
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donbott's post reminds me of a sign I saw in a super market announcing the winner of a competition:
"Contragulations to ........",
kept me going for days that did !
Patrick
"Contragulations to ........",
kept me going for days that did !
Patrick
My local indoor sports center has a large glossy sign on the lobby wall proudly listing the tuition available for various activities, this list includes...
With such a large list (the sign is floor to ceiling), it's odd how I noticed that one particular typo.
The biggest spelling mistake I have ever seen was on a quiet backroad a few miles from my home. Painted on the road in huge white letters just before a nasty corner was the word "SLOM". It had the right effect actually since many people wanted to be photographed standing on it, so the traffic did 'slom' down significantly.
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I once received an email from a coworker which was signed off with "thnak you very much." When I replied to all parties copied on the email when I had completed the work I'd been asked to do, I signed off with "you're wlecome."
One person knew me well enough that when I saw him a few minutes after sending the email, he told me that I was very, very bad.
Ever since then I have enjoyed finding entertaining ways to transpose a couple of letters in words. For example, I often refer to borken things or say "you borked it!"
I like tramoplining (pronounced as spelled of course, not pleen but pline) and contragulations a lot.
Oh, and besides that guy on TV I am the only person I know who can sing any songs backward. (Record me and play it in reverse and I'm singing Happy Birthday!)
One person knew me well enough that when I saw him a few minutes after sending the email, he told me that I was very, very bad.
Ever since then I have enjoyed finding entertaining ways to transpose a couple of letters in words. For example, I often refer to borken things or say "you borked it!"
I like tramoplining (pronounced as spelled of course, not pleen but pline) and contragulations a lot.
Oh, and besides that guy on TV I am the only person I know who can sing any songs backward. (Record me and play it in reverse and I'm singing Happy Birthday!)
Back in the Eighties, I saw a sign painted on a road in Adelanto, CA that read:
AHAED
STOP
Before I could get my camera and a ladder, they had sandblasted and corrected it.
esquared, I have a t-shirt with the simple slogan:
THNIK
I'm always thniking.
My dad had a sign in his workshop with the quotation: "It's impossible to observe reality without introducing peturbations." That's the truth.
Phil Hegedusich
Senior Programmer/Analyst
IIMAK
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I'll have the roast duck with the mango salsa.
AHAED
STOP
Before I could get my camera and a ladder, they had sandblasted and corrected it.
esquared, I have a t-shirt with the simple slogan:
THNIK
I'm always thniking.
My dad had a sign in his workshop with the quotation: "It's impossible to observe reality without introducing peturbations." That's the truth.
Phil Hegedusich
Senior Programmer/Analyst
IIMAK
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I'll have the roast duck with the mango salsa.
As a child, I used to pass a wall covered in graffiti when my mother would take us shopping at the local mall.
One phrase in particular always stood out to me:
god i went a good job
grew up interested in language. First office job was as a word-processor.
~Thadeus
One phrase in particular always stood out to me:
god i went a good job
grew up interested in language. First office job was as a word-processor.
~Thadeus
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When I was a young teenager I had some contact with another computer-head who I can barely remember any details about. I don't know how I knew him or what his name was. But I do remember that he wrote a program in Basic that at one point put a huge message on the screen during a file retrieval:
GETTTNG FILE
He was shocked that I thought it was misspelled.
GETTTNG FILE
He was shocked that I thought it was misspelled.
FIBRE'S
I saw it on the way to work this morning.
It was sprayed on the road, presumably to warn the workmen about to do some digging. I suppose it could have been the work allocated to someone called Fibre.
"If it could have gone wrong earlier and it didn't, it ultimately would have been beneficial for it to have." : Murphy's Ultimate Corollary
I saw it on the way to work this morning.
It was sprayed on the road, presumably to warn the workmen about to do some digging. I suppose it could have been the work allocated to someone called Fibre.
"If it could have gone wrong earlier and it didn't, it ultimately would have been beneficial for it to have." : Murphy's Ultimate Corollary
The town I live outside of discovered in 2005 that about 30 years ago, they had misspelled the name major north-south street.
(Scroll down to Page 3).
They did revert back to the original name (Girod), and the street signs have been changed.
Never assume you know how something should be spelled.
Tibi gratias agimus quod nihil fumas.
(Scroll down to Page 3).
They did revert back to the original name (Girod), and the street signs have been changed.
Never assume you know how something should be spelled.
Tibi gratias agimus quod nihil fumas.
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Erroneously correcting "spelling mistakes" is a fun source of misspellings.
In High School I had a reputation for being a good speller. So a girl who usually had nothing to do with me asked me how to spell hors d'ouevres for an English paper she was writing on the computer. I told her--correctly.
After typing the word one painstaking letter at a time, she examined the word on the screen. Then, bestowing me with a sneer, she announced "That's not right, that's horse doovers!" and proceeded to spell it her own way.
In High School I had a reputation for being a good speller. So a girl who usually had nothing to do with me asked me how to spell hors d'ouevres for an English paper she was writing on the computer. I told her--correctly.
After typing the word one painstaking letter at a time, she examined the word on the screen. Then, bestowing me with a sneer, she announced "That's not right, that's horse doovers!" and proceeded to spell it her own way.
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