My team leader is undertaking the onerous task of understanding our client/server communication product since the one person who knew it has left. I just overheard in a Geordie Big Brother mickey-taking voice:
Day 45. The server has connected to the agent.
The agent comes to the diary room.
Haha, made me giggle! :)
In other news, to the [...]

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We have a strange, slightly unhealthy love of guids here. The following is quite a normal geeky conversation in our department:
Well what you do is you look in md_attribute_template.
What was the guid, do you remember?
Was it B869B370 …?
E2BF …?
We have developed this (utterly false) notion of a guid ‘mountain’ and we talk of them being [...]

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If you could give me … 15 to 20 of your Earth minutes …
Let’s call it … quarter past Friday …

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Good morning, it’s the guard.
If there is a Ken Wiggins* on the train could he please pop his head out on to the platform? We have your …
…
… We have something of yours.
Everyone on the train laughed! :)
*Name changed for privacy.

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I overheard a colleague on the phone. I have no idea what the call was about, but this was the half i could hear:
Always be satisfied with second best. If not third or fourth best.
Aim low.
Have i put you off yet?!
Okay. Bye.
Hahah! :D

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