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Post by 950nancy on Jul 3, 2020 20:56:14 GMT
Note: tell dd not to date engineers. Mine actually is a great husband, just has all those annoying traits inherent to engineers. You have to learn to deal with them properly! Son said Stay Puft Marshmallow, hubby said Michelin tire guy. I said he was shaving cream. Oh, they laughed at me. I had recently looked it up and knew I was right. The character was the Stay Puft Marshmallow man. The actual stuff they used in the film to simulate the marshmallow goo at the end of the movie was shaving cream. In the DVD commentary track for the 1984 comedy classic "Ghostbusters," producer-director Ivan Reitman reveals that the marshmallow that covers downtown New York after the team busts the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man is actually shaving cream.Yes, I wasn't clear on what I was arguing at the time.
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kate
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Post by kate on Jul 3, 2020 20:59:21 GMT
We are celebrating 23 years on Sunday, it is just one of those things. Wait, really? Us too! 23 years on Sunday! Happy anniversary to us all. /hijack
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Post by bearmom on Jul 4, 2020 11:44:07 GMT
We are celebrating 23 years on Sunday, it is just one of those things. Wait, really? Us too! 23 years on Sunday! Happy anniversary to us all. /hijack Happy Anniversary!
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Post by supersoda on Jul 4, 2020 13:02:01 GMT
I’ll validate you, too, and share my own version.
DH was applying for a new job and I mentioned to him that we needed to look at his noncompete. The next day he was talking to a colleague and reported that he didn’t need to worry about the noncompete because Mr. X said they weren’t regularly enforced and usually didn’t have any teeth.
Dude...I’m a lawyer. I draft noncompetes. Clients call me when they want to hire someone under a noncompete. I’ve litigated noncompetes. I’ve given presentations on noncompetes. But go ahead and take Mr. X’s advice (a software engineer, not a lawyer). SMH
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RedSquirrelUK
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Jul 4, 2020 17:05:08 GMT
< -- Engineer's wife who trained in ambulance work, has a diploma in anatomy & physiology, trained and practised as an osteomyologist and now works in a GP's surgery. And he questions anatomical things too. Yesterday's "discussions" were about the differences between peristalsis and pressure in a medical setting and in an engineering setting. He was applying the engineering understanding to a medical setting and insisting that I was using the terms in the wrong sense. Maybe I was, but in the human body, peristalsis is supposed to start at the top of the alimentary canal and end at the bottom, and in engineering it can go either way. I'm not even going to start on how my description of increased pressure in asthmatic lungs was wrong.
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Dallie
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Post by Dallie on Jul 4, 2020 17:23:53 GMT
Note: tell dd not to date engineers. Nah, they make good money and can fix anything (at least, mechanical engineers can.) They're worth it! Not to my dd. She loathes people who have to be right AND people who like to argue. She has walked out on dates when the man does that.
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