# Question about Office Space **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 18, 2005, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-office-space/290755 "2005-02-18T18:09:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Othersider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/cab0a1/32.png) [@Othersider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Othersider)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-office-space/290755/21 "2005-02-18T23:01:55Z")
Peter: Before we go any further, we gotta swear to God, Allah, that NOBODY knows about this but us. No friends, no girlfriends, _nobody_. Lawrence: Don’t worry man, I won’t tell anyone either! Michael: Who the fuck is that?! Peter: Nah, don’t worry about him, he’s cool. ---
**Author:** ![Othersider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/cab0a1/32.png) [@Othersider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Othersider)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-office-space/290755/22 "2005-02-18T23:03:33Z")
Curse you, simul-post. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-office-space/290755/23 "2005-02-18T23:05:07Z")
By the way, for those that don’t know, Mike Judge (writer/director of Office Space, and creator of Beavis and Butthead) was Joanna’s boss who lectured her about the flair. ---
**Author:** ![Othersider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/cab0a1/32.png) [@Othersider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Othersider)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-office-space/290755/24 "2005-02-18T23:19:11Z")
> [@Bill H.](#): > > By the way, for those that don’t know, Mike Judge (writer/director of Office Space, and creator of Beavis and Butthead) was Joanna’s boss who lectured her about the flair. Before someone looks it up and says “NO HE WASN’T THAT’S SOME OTHER GUY NAMED WILLIAM KING”, yes, it is Mike Judge - a myriad of sources, including IMDB, confirm this. (Similarly, Dustin Hoffman and Michael Jackson were on The Simpsons too, even though they were never listed under their real names.) ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-office-space/290755/25 "2005-02-18T23:27:15Z")
> [@Scarface Z](#): > > Doesn’t Joe Pesci get bludgeoned to death in a cornfield with a baseball bat in “The Goodfellas”? You’re thinking of _Casino_, another Scorcsese/De Niro/Pesci film. Trivia: The guy who kicks him (Frank Vincent, I believe) is the made man who Pesci et al kill in _Goodfellas_. He’s also the promoter that Pesci kicks the living shit out of in _Raging Bull_. Both times Vincent suffered from cracked/broken ribs. In _Casino_, Pesci suffers a broken rib when he was thrown in the grave. I think the young people enjoy it when I “get down” verbally. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Scarface\_Z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Scarface\_Z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarface_Z)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-office-space/290755/26 "2005-02-18T23:41:04Z")
I never actually saw either movie, i just remember the baseball bat scene and couldn’t remember the movie. Oops. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-office-space/290755/27 "2005-02-18T23:44:04Z")
“I could set the building on fire.” “Thats it, the last straw. I’m going to set the building on fire” "And I said: “No salt! No salt on the marguerita! But there was salt on it.” “I could put strychnine in the guacomole.” many, many (sics) ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-office-space/290755/28 "2005-02-19T16:22:33Z")
“we _fixed the glitch_” ---
**Author:** ![jimpatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@jimpatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimpatro)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-office-space/290755/29 "2005-02-19T18:00:43Z")
“Ohh, ohhhh!” ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-office-space/290755/30 "2005-02-19T18:10:19Z")
Pc Load Letter?!? ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-office-space/290755/31 "2005-02-19T18:28:34Z")
Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. [sup]JUST![/sup] a moment… ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-office-space/290755/32 "2005-02-19T18:43:37Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. [sup]JUST![/sup] a moment… “I think I’m gonna lose it” “Welcome to Chochkey’s!” “Looks like someone’s got a case of the Monday’s!” "Lawrence, you ever hear anyone say at work ‘look’s like someone’s got a case of the Monday’s?’? “No. Hell no. I do believe a person could get his ass kicked for talkin’ like that” ---
**Author:** ![Zero\_Gravitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7ab992/32.png) [@Zero\_Gravitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zero_Gravitas)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-office-space/290755/33 "2005-02-19T21:43:25Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > There’s a scene in _Office Space_ that looks like it may have been lifted from another movie. It’s the scene where they kick the crap out of the printer. Is this a reference to something, or does it just seem that way? > > If you don’t know, feel free to post your favorite line from that movie. Face it, you were going to anyway. I’ll start: > > “PC load letter? What the fuck does that mean?” This is one of my favorite movies. I think the scene is a spoof, or homage, of a similar scene in one of those early 90s gangsta movies like ‘Boyz in the Hood’, though I’m not sure which one. I know I have seen the same slow-motion POV beatdown in several rap music videos, which I think are also copying the same original scene. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-office-space/290755.md?page=1)