# From The Pwincess Pwecious to The Terrible Tempered Miss Bang **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 12, 2004, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-pwincess-pwecious-to-the-terrible-tempered-miss-bang/268854 "2004-10-12T18:48:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-pwincess-pwecious-to-the-terrible-tempered-miss-bang/268854/1 "2004-10-12T18:48:35Z")
Having moved from one end of the office to the other, I am no longer pwagued by the Pwincess Pwecious and her endless baby pwattle. But . . . We have recently hired a new editor, The Terrible Tempered Miss Bang. She may be a “pet” of the new boss, so we have to tread carefully. Very carefully. The T.T. Miss B. is very nice and sweet and social when you run into her in the hallway: “Nice sweater!” “Hi, how are you doing today?” But when you give her any work to do: “Why the hell are you giving me this?!” “I hate these goddam fashion articles!” “Why the hell don’t _you_ take care of this, I don’t want to waste my time!” “Oh, Christ, you have to stand here and watch me edit it, as punishment” (I am not making that last one up, either). Ummm, because it’s your _job_ to edit those articles? It’s gotten to the point where I wait till she’s away from her desk, drop the article on it and run like hell. I’m beginning to miss the Pwincess . . . ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-pwincess-pwecious-to-the-terrible-tempered-miss-bang/268854/2 "2004-10-12T18:56:47Z")
What happened to the Fashion Harpy? ---
**Author:** ![jlzania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/67e7ee/32.png) [@jlzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jlzania)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-pwincess-pwecious-to-the-terrible-tempered-miss-bang/268854/3 "2004-10-12T19:17:23Z")
> [@](#): > > But when you give her any work to do: “Why the hell are you giving me this?!” “I hate these goddam fashion articles!” “Why the hell don’t you take care of this, I don’t want to waste my time!” “Oh, Christ, you have to stand here and watch me edit it, as punishment” **Eve** - you’re just a howwible howwible meanie. Asking her to do her job-what’s next? Competency? An actual work ethic? Will your demands never end? ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-pwincess-pwecious-to-the-terrible-tempered-miss-bang/268854/4 "2004-10-12T19:53:14Z")
So I get the TT but where is does the Bang come from? Is that her imagined end? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-pwincess-pwecious-to-the-terrible-tempered-miss-bang/268854/5 "2004-10-12T20:04:07Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > So I get the TT but where is does the Bang come from? [I think it’s from this cartoon](http://tesla.liketelevision.com/liketelevision/tuner.php?channel=861&format=tv&theme=guide) ---
**Author:** ![Sassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Sassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassy)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-pwincess-pwecious-to-the-terrible-tempered-miss-bang/268854/6 "2004-10-12T20:18:25Z")
Eve, would you be so kind as to email me? I’ll be in New York next week and would love to meet you if you’re available (or I’ll have to go to the Algonquin by myself ☹ ) ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-pwincess-pwecious-to-the-terrible-tempered-miss-bang/268854/7 "2004-10-12T22:53:46Z")
Reply duly Sent. Yes, the name is from the old "Toonerville Trolley’ comic: this dame is the offspring of The Terrible-Tempered Mr. Bang and The Powerful Katrinka. Everyone dreads handing her an article, but she outranks us and is a Favorite of the New Regime’s. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-pwincess-pwecious-to-the-terrible-tempered-miss-bang/268854/8 "2004-10-12T23:03:49Z")
off topic, but this weekend I spent time with a friend who does the MAJOR baby talk to her new doggie woggie. She was holding him in the air and making him “talk” to me, and I started pretending I was the dog and crying out a muffled “Help me…please help me…she’s fucking crazy!” She was not amused, but I laughed myself sick and thought about Pwincess Pwecious. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-pwincess-pwecious-to-the-terrible-tempered-miss-bang/268854/9 "2004-10-13T01:18:34Z")
I do still Her Maj in the office kitchen from time to time and say “hewwo.” But the Terrible Tempered Miss Bang? Things are dicey at work–ordinarily I’d tell her where to get off (I mean, you know _me_). But we have a new boss and Miss B. is one of the new boss’ Favorites. I have to hold onto this job for three years while I get my master’s! So I smile at her in the hall and tell her how much I _love_ her earrings, and when I have an article to leave on her desk, I do a “drop and run.” ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-pwincess-pwecious-to-the-terrible-tempered-miss-bang/268854/10 "2004-10-13T01:21:33Z")
I still _see_ her Maj in the kitchen; I don’t _do_ her in the kitchen. Goodness Gwacious–she’s not a wesbian! Sad thing is, this was a pretty friendly, feud-free office before Miss Bang showed up. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-pwincess-pwecious-to-the-terrible-tempered-miss-bang/268854/11 "2004-10-13T02:57:02Z")
Dang. I thought I’d be the first with the Toonerville Trolley reference. I loved 'em all–Mickey, the Skipper, all the Wortles including little Woo Woo Wortle, the most spoiled baby in the world, Eddie, Aunt Sophrony… It sucks to have somebody in the office like that. And if people like you and me put on that attitude for one sec, we’d be out of a job just like that. But some people sail through life that way.