"...I wonder if he's the right man for the job?"

[unixronin]

Yeah, I actually made my first cash contributiuon to the household income in about a year yesterday.  (Well, OK, technically I haven't got the check yet, and won't for a week or so.)  Nothing dramatic, filling in as a technician for Compucom installing new teller PCs and software at a bank just acquired by BankNorth.  I'm not sure which bank this branch used to be -- it may have been Heritage Bank, it may have been people's Bank, it may have been BankBoston -- because the BankNorth sign was already up, which it isn't at all branches.  This was the last wave of the changeover; Compucom had to hire piecework technicians beause they don't have the 120 technicians they needed in New Hampshire.  It went pretty smoothly aside from the discovery partway through that while the preconfigured software CD tried to install gig-E drivers, some of the supposedly-identical machines actually had only Intel EEPro100 onboard Ethernet rather than gigabit.  If Windows asked permission to install the driver upgrade, and you let it, those machines would be off the network until you backed out the driver and let Windows install the correct driver.  "Oops."

Twenty bucks an hour for about five and a half billed hours.  Sigh.  And I hurt by the time I got home.

Still, it's something.  But they wouldn't let me in the gold vault.

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Grytpype-Thynne: "I'm putting you in charge of the gold vault, Neddie."

Seagoon:  "Gold.  Gold?  Gold!  GOLD!  GOOOOOOOLD!!!"

Grytpype-Thynne:  "...I wonder if he's the right man for the job?"

Seagoon (aside):  I had to think of a plan.  Quickly, I disguised myself as a Zulu warrior of the Matabele uprising.  My own grandmother wouldn't have recognized me.

Throat:  "'Ullo, Neddie."

Seagoon:  "Hallo, Granny!"

Seagoon (aside):  I secured a small horse-drawn cart, backed it up to the bank, and began loading the gold.

Grytpype-Thynne:  "I say, Neddie?"

Seagoon:  "Curses!  I'm spotted!"

Grytpype-Thynne:  "Neddie, why are you wearing that leopard skin?"

Seagoon:  "So that's why I'm spotted!"

Grytpype-Thynne:  "What are you doing with that gold, Neddie?"

Seagoon (aside):  I had to think of a good excuse.

Grytpype-Thynne:  "You're stealing it, aren't you, Neddie?"

Seagoon:  "Curses!  Why didn't I think of that?"

Grytpype-Thynne:  "Well, hold on a minute, I'll get my coat."

Seagoon:  "What, are you coming too?"

Grytpype-Thynne:  "Well, there's no point staying here.  There's more gold in the cart than there is in the bank."

 

Comments

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

congrats!!! ~hands you a bottle of Killian's~

where's the pirate dialogue from?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Pirate dialog? That, sir, is from the original and contrived-type wireless Goon Show, of BBC radio fame. (Send only two shillings and sixpence for a photograph of tonight's broadcast.) Specifically, an episode entitled Dishonoured, in which Ned Seagoon (as ably, and amply, played by Harry Secombe) goes from rags to riches and rapidly back to rags again, before attempting to redeem himself by joining the Third Foot and Mouth to make a valiant last stand against the Red Bladder and his forty thousand Balloons.

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

never heard of it, but thanks for sharing!

~hands you another Killian's!~

[darthgeek.livejournal.com]

The Goon Show (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goon_Show)

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

~hands you a beer too!~ i wasn't even born when this was out!

[ehintz.livejournal.com]

Awesome, good to hear you got a gig sorted, even if just a temp one.