Randomness

[Weeble]

Sounds like Kotik is the one to open up the Nascar thread. Maybe even put a 24 sticker on his back windshield. Or maybe an 8, he probably likes junior...

[Kotik]

Nah, Mark Martin or Danica if anything. I liked NASCAR better when there were still people with names like Buckshot Jones around and the cars were those V8 monsters that were about as sophisticated as an ox cart Those "new generation" cars - meh...

[putaro]

I think Kotik's more of a Demolition Derby kinda guy myself.

[Weeble]

I agree Putaro, especially if they have demolition resistants car stereos.....

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

How to Tell if a TV Show is Probably Not Going to End Well

[Distracted]

Ms. Anders sounds like one of us.

[Kotik]

Since August last year, I've been working in the cozy town of Hannover, Germany. Hannover is the spleen of Germany. Everybody knows it exists, but nobody knows what for. It's just there and nothing happens, ever. Until last week, when thieves stole a gold plated Leibnitz cookie from a statue at the manufacturers headquarters. Police had and has no clue whatsoever, but today a "ransom note" was sent to the manufacturer and to one of the biggest Hannover daily newspapers. It shows a person dressed as the cookie monster holding the golden biscuit and it reads:

Zero Cookies
I have the cookie and you want it back. That's why you might want to provide all childrens stations of the hospital at the Bult with Leibnitz cookies. The ones from whole milk chocolate, not those with dark chocolate or those without chocolate. And an extra cookie for the kids on the cancer station. The 1000 Euros that you offered for my capture shall be donated to an animal shelter.
I hope you like the cookie as much as I do and therefore want to be really generous with the children. I mean it, this is serious. Else the cookie will end up in Grumpy Oscar's garbage can. Really!!! After my demands have been met, you'll receive another letter telling you where the cookie is.

signed: Cookie Monster4

I don't condone theft or blackmail, but this had me in stitches

[Weeble]

Priceless Kotik,

If we have a police force with a sense of humor this will turn out well. It may also be one of the few times that negotiating in a hostage crisis may prove productive. I'll get to the next chapter of "Words" shortly, I have a POP (pissed off pup) situation. My dog is demanding play time, or else.....

[Distracted]

In English it's "Oscar the Grouch". I know this because my now-25 year old son was a major Cookie Monster fan at age 3.

"C is for cooookie, that's good enough for meeee..."

[Asso]

Oscar the Grouch, huh? I don't know why, but this reminds me of someone.

[Weeble]

yep, somehow i think SB likes cookies too

[Kotik]

Looks like I asked for premature dismissal from the company today...

Background: I've been working the front line database desk for Hewlett Packard since August last year. In all wisdom of american business logic they've fired 4 people without the workload getting any lighter. Since the customer is po'ed like hell due to the rotten service resulting from understaffed teams, HP decided to build a task force monitoring the teams and take measures to insure "better performance", They told us about that in a mail sent from the Vice president of HP. This was my answer to him:



I don't think I'll be working for them much longer, but it had to be said. Never cross a Kotik

[Distracted]

Actually, for you that letter was quite diplomatic, Kotik. Here's hoping that whoever reads it is intelligent and has a sense of humor. Good luck.

[Kotik]

Actually, for you that letter was quite diplomatic, Kotik. Here's hoping that whoever reads it is intelligent and has a sense of humor. Good luck.

Well there are 55(!) managers in the recipient list, including the vice president of the company. I sure hope that someone reads it. I do however hope for common sense, rather than humour, because I didn't exaggerate the situation. They've shrunken the teams to the breaking point...

[Weeble]

Damn,

I knew all that fan fic writing would pay off for ya Kotik. Your letter, while a teeny bit snarky definitely reveals a kinder softer gentler Kotik. Adding various scientific topics and physical realities reveals your stoic Vulcan side is showing. Personally I probably would have sucked it up in my younger days. Now i would have written something a bit more terse and finished with a "#$%kyou and the horse you rode in on".