Clerical Terror

[unclef]

Nervous though I may be about my new hospital gig, I'm not that sorry to be bidding adieu to office life and the existential head-scratching it provokes in me; 'business' - the name for that which sheaths our fangs. Yesterday The Da and Bro 2 met up with the Boys, the current sharp-creased dream team, to hatch their latest money-generating scheme.

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Congratulations Thomas

[nix_this]

Though i wouldn't pass up the opportunity to be Thackeray. Will you be desperate enough to become a Bronte, I wonder? Or Jane Austen?

I've always tried to imagine how Jane would sound. I keep picturing her as a female mirror of the Masterpiece Theater guy.

I may adopt your scheme for telemarketers..

Re: Congratulations Thomas

[nix_this]

Though the names themselves will mean nothing to most post-literate call centre clods, I think they'd smell a rat if i gave myself a female name. So when i've used up the authors it'll be their characters next.
Telemarketers - emit a piercing shriek down the phone. Good enough for the intrusive annoyances that they are.
Or pretend you're a fax machine.

Re: Congratulations Thomas

[unclef]

Hey, logging on's for squares. Ahem.

[unclef]

Oh, you're welcome. I wish I could have found more evangelical oddities. Subtlety, thy name is Chick.
Hmm...I like being able to get my cyber-hands on some previously difficult or impossible-to-find things through the wonder of Google or whatever but it does take some of the pleasure of successful hunts or chance discoveries from life. The Internet - doing away with serendipitous finds since the late 20th Century.
Hullo then young Mr Westwood. For a frantic moment I thought that was the same name as radio's ageing wigga hip-hop authority but no, he's Tim, aint he?
When I seemed trapped in office hell, the hospital job seemed a perfect escape route. Now that it's more or less in the bag I am crapping myself a bit. But it's true, doing real work with visible, positive results will bale out my foundering self-esteem.

[unclef]

Ooohhh...Watchmen...It's possible to over-praise even a really exceptionally ace and brilliant work, and internet forum-dwellers beyond number have been kicking that book to and fro for years now, so it's impossible to come to it without assumptions...But for me, it's probably still the daddy of em all (though Moore is his own stiff competition with From Hell). I have no idea how many times I've read that book and I may do so again soon and still find something new. But hush my mouth, here I am, assuming it's your first read of it - perhaps not?
I love Bad Bob's child psychologist - chin-stroking do-gooder!