Clarification: unfortunate choice of words within the link not withstanding, on reconsideration, it looks like the OP might well have just invited Dopers to watch a technicolor meltdown rather than actually join in.
The thread’s been reopened, and rayh has been reinstated.
And my apology to rayh.
Veb
So will you be reinstating the original link, Veb? Or are subsequent links in this thread sufficient to get to where it’s happenin’?
Link has been replaced in the initial post.
If it’s the one I am thinking of, it’s a series of snippets of a british guy that goes like this:
I may have the order wrong on some of them, but those are the exact quotes. We never got tired of it at the place I worked about 10 years ago.
Hey!! Isn’t that cycle guy Ex Machina"s dad or something?? 
That’s probably it. I wish someone would resurrect it. There’s a whole new batch of netters who might like it.
I don’t know if it’s the same one, but one I heard had a guy calling support because his laptop came back with a new hard drive, and his work (a novel maybe) was on the old one they had to replace. He also started calm, but quickly lost it as he described something like two years work gone.
By the way, Veb. very classy move, I’m glad to see the thread and OP back.
Perhaps someone can answer this for me-what in the blue fuck is a “poltroon?”
A poltroon is a coward.
There’s a definition further down the thread.
Unless you also call people “cads”, “caitiffs” and “blackguards”, though, I wouldn’t recommend adding it to the vocabulary.
The guy really is a tool, isn’t he? Would you go on a cycling holiday with him? :eek:
Not if I have to supply my own chickenshit poltroons.
Oh no! Not ANOTHER racist hate word!
I liked this part from the link:
I gave it a 9.5 - half a point deduction for the spelling error.
Regards,
Shodan
You know me. I open my mouth, out pops hate speech. :dubious:
Is it that or are you talking about the guy who sent his laptop in to be repaired and they replaced his hard drive which contained all of his doctoral dissertation work? That was pretty similar.
You see, this is what happens when you forget that you opened this thread BEFORE searching through all those links from the OP. Somebody goes and answers the question before sigh.
Well, you added the info that it was a doc. diss., which might be helpful for someone searching for it.
I had a quick look but have yet to find that file you’re all talking about. There are, however, a lot of good clips out there…
I love this (MP3 file, definetly NSFW) file the most so far.
Yes, I think the one you and Flight have in mind is the one. I mean, he really lights it up at the end, with a voice shriller than Anita Bryant at a PFLAG parade.