# Share the... not Joy, Actually **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 15, 2004, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-the-not-joy-actually/274845 "2004-11-15T12:26:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-the-not-joy-actually/274845/101 "2004-11-18T01:22:33Z")
We’ll miss you **Vunderbob** , but we’re keep the homes fires burning until your return. I’m cooking a small turkey at my Mom’s house next week, and I’ll do gravy, mashed potatoes and some veggies as well. Not sure about stuffing–I think we may just do stovetop. Mom probably won’t want to eat much, but we have to have the smell of a roasting turkey, otherwise it would just be too sad. I’m invited over to my sister’s in-laws as well, and her MIL is a very good cook, so I’ll have a mid-afternoon meal with a crowd there, and then a little mini-meal later in the evening with Mom. My sisters’ have never been supporters of the “Buy Nothing Day” concept, so they hit the stores on the day after–I sometimes go just as a bonding experience–and various groupings of the guys and kids golf or go to the movies or bowling, so everyone drops by Mom’s throughout the day for turkey sandwiches and assorted leftovers. Yet another reason for me to cook a bird. I might as well mention that I’ll be out of touch all next week and the week after that. If I can get to a computer, I will, but no one should hold their breath waiting for me. You all have good Thanksgivings (except for the imaginary people north of us who already had Thanksgiving) and hug someone you haven’t hugged for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-the-not-joy-actually/274845/102 "2004-11-18T03:35:15Z")
Good luck to **VunderBob** and bye bye to **Kallessa** , we’ll miss ya’ That’s all I got. Unless you want to hear about how annoyed I am that I can’t find that glue for glueing pink foam, 'cause the Elmer’s just ain’t cutting it. I thought not. Did I mention that the kid who’s hosting Turkey Day is on the Atkin’s diet? I expect dinner to be…interesting. I’ve kinda promised to make [No-bake key lime cheesecake](http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_27009,00.html) which _will_ be interesting. Now that’s all I got. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-the-not-joy-actually/274845/103 "2004-11-18T04:06:50Z")
Good luck, **Bob**. Hope everything goes well. Same to you, **Kalley**. We love you and want you back soon. Umm, not in _that_ way. I think I have too many spouses as it is. Anyway, we’ll miss you. Have a good Heathen-American-Turkey-Day-Too-Close-To-Christmas. 😃 It’s mostly being so close to Christmas that makes it wrong. How can you eat a whole turkey a month? Yeesh. Nigella Lawson has a shiny new cookbook out. She’s very pretty. There are enough pictures of her in it to convert many men to elaborate cooking. Her kids are cute, too. There was a creepy guy at work who was looking for books on Freud and hypnotherapy. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-the-not-joy-actually/274845/104 "2004-11-18T12:37:07Z")
Freud and hypnotherapy. Now there’s a therapist I could be in tune with! 😃 If **vunderbob** comes back with a sheepskin, maybe we’ll all get wool mittens for Christmas! Yay! **Kalley** one of these days you gotta quit being cheap like me and by yourself a laptop to take so’s you can dope away while doing other stuff. Hope everything’s going well with your mom! **Bumba** when all else fails, duct tape! And why are you gluing pink foam anyways? **Lissla** should cookbooks be shiny? Was it published near a nuclear reactor or something? ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-the-not-joy-actually/274845/105 "2004-11-18T13:42:17Z")
You’re probably not reading this, **VunderBob** , but good luck with the degree. I applaud you for going back to school, because I know how tough it is. Working full time and going to school is so exhausting that I nearly quit halfway through my masters degree. I’m glad I stuck it out, but I’d never do it again. Good for you for toughing it out. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-the-not-joy-actually/274845/106 "2004-11-18T14:35:03Z")
> [@Exgineer](#): > > You’re probably not reading this, **VunderBob** , but good luck with the degree. I applaud you for going back to school, because I know how tough it is. Working full time and going to school is so exhausting that I nearly quit halfway through my masters degree. I’m glad I stuck it out, but I’d never do it again. > > Good for you for toughing it out. Hear! Hear! or is that Here! Here! I never know which is right. Anyway, I did the whole working full-time working on the Master’s myself. It was tough but I think I woulda gone nuts being a full-time student, cause I waited a few years after college to do it and was used to working full-time. Besides, I got to use work as a guinea pig for research projects. I did stuff I was supposed to do for work anyway, but got course credit for it too. That was much better than making up stuff to research. Matter of fact, the place I was working then still uses a project I designed. Guess they know perfect when they see it! 😃 In other news, staff and co-workers are cringing in fear. I am revamping old and working on new policies and procedures. They smell the evil coming from my office! ---
**Author:** ![merrily](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@merrily](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/merrily)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-the-not-joy-actually/274845/107 "2004-11-18T15:11:35Z")
Cleverboots **Rue** said: > [@](#): > > Schrödinger’s Dust and > [@](#): > > Of course, they aren’t as good as they were in the Old Country. and here I am, days later, still laughing. Thanks. **Swampy** , are you Catbert by any chance? ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-the-not-joy-actually/274845/108 "2004-11-18T16:09:22Z")
> [@Ashes](#): > > And har dee har **puggy**. Your large breasts nearly made me pass out. :eek: Maybe I should adopt this as a sig line. What does everybody think? 😃 **kalley** and **bob** , good luck and we’ll miss you. Happy Thanksgiving! I’m with you, **merrily** on the yuck factor of **rue’s** Schrödinger’s Dust. I too was having a memorial chuckle this AM. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-the-not-joy-actually/274845/109 "2004-11-18T16:32:44Z")
Not exactly **merrily**. See, I don’t make evil hr policy, just evil programmatic policy stuff. Ok, actually, I don’t just make it up, I either issue or revise policies and procedures, rules/regs based on what the evil gummit and what not decides we must all now do. However, as far as everyone here is concerned, I am the evil from which flows all p & p and rules/regs. Hence the evil stench emitting from my office on any given day. Course today, it’s combined with the smell of Maryland Fried Chicken, cause that’s what I’m having for lunch even as I post. **Puggy** definitely sig material! ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-the-not-joy-actually/274845/110 "2004-11-18T16:43:04Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > In other news, staff and co-workers are cringing in fear. I am revamping old and working on new policies and procedures. They smell the evil coming from my office! This isn’t going to be one of those “world ending common sense” things is it? 'Cause I think I’ve already done enough damage. And it’s “hear, hear” as in “listen to what this guy is saying, 'cause he’s really smart,” so you got it right the first time. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-the-not-joy-actually/274845/111 "2004-11-18T16:47:08Z")
> [@Exgineer](#): > > This isn’t going to be one of those “world ending common sense” things is it? 'Cause I think I’ve already done enough damage. > > And it’s “hear, hear” as in “listen to what this guy is saying, 'cause he’s really smart,” so you got it right the first time. Not to worry **Ex**. There will be no apocalypse or stuff like that cause this is change cause we have to change not change that will make more sense change. See, it’s the doing stuff that makes sense changes that cause havoc, destruction and ruin to be heaped upon us. Hear! Hear! I got it right! ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-the-not-joy-actually/274845/112 "2004-11-18T17:09:33Z")
Well **puggy** , a sig like that would certainly give everyone the warning they need when dealing with wickiditude like yours. Breasts indeed! You know, I may not be here very much next week myself. Got to scrape the top layer of grime off my place and then there’s this family thing where we eat a bunch of food and get rowdy. This year I don’t have to travel eleventy bazillion miles and my poor car is happy about this. **Swampy** , does this change for change’s sake make you feel dirty? If it doesn’t, then you’re not doing it right. Once you know you’re doing it right and it doesn’t make you feel dirty, well then, welcome to the dark side. Here’s your helmet and a booklet on how to sound like an asthmatic James Earl Jones. I for one, am in awe. ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-the-not-joy-actually/274845/113 "2004-11-18T18:32:37Z")
> [@Tupug Anachi](#): > > I’m with you, **merrily** on the yuck factor of **rue’s** Schrödinger’s Dust. I too was having a memorial chuckle this AM. Not like I need the affirmation or anything, but **Rue** was just riffing on my joke. I set it up, he knew how to spell Schrödinger. So really, it’s just that **Rue** got my joke, and spelled it out for the rest of you. If he had just written “Schrödinger’s Dust” apropos of nothing, it wouldn’t have been funny. Odd? Yes. In keeping with the **Rue** mystique? Yes, But funny? No. Notice that I use **bold** each time I used **Rue’s** name. Often, I only bold the first time I reference a specific person, but in **Rue’s** case, I believe he merits the extra keystrokes each and every time he is mentioned. Would it have been more correct to say “reference a particular person”? As I age, I understand the grammar police more and more. ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-the-not-joy-actually/274845/114 "2004-11-18T18:51:48Z")
Well, let’s see if this works. 🙂 Tupug ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-the-not-joy-actually/274845/115 "2004-11-18T18:53:04Z")
Ooops. :o Tupug ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-the-not-joy-actually/274845/116 "2004-11-18T18:54:40Z")
:mad: Boy I hate shoing myself for a tyro. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-the-not-joy-actually/274845/117 "2004-11-18T19:06:29Z")
**Ashes [sup]2[/sup]**, of course it does not make me feel dirty. I like it when everyone can smell the evil! **BWAHAHAHA!!!** Everyone is wondering when _The Evil_[supTM[/sup] will descend upon them. When will they hear or read the horrible message to bring your p & p manual to the Board Room (from whence _The Evil_[sup]TM[/sup] is dispensed) at such and such a time on such and such a date for the dreaded **RECEIVING OF THE NEW POLICIES AND PROCEDURES AND/OR RULES/REGS MEETING**. It’s power, I tell ya, power! Even my boss fears the dreaded updates to _The Evil_.[sup]TM[/sup] And to think ACBG doesn’t believe I can be mean. Got him fooled! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-the-not-joy-actually/274845/118 "2004-11-18T19:33:04Z")
I _knew_ it! Oh, those admins always say they’re sorry etc. when they do stuff like poke at us with rules and forms for hours on end, sure, sure. A load of hogwash and here’s the proof. And **swampy** , your evil chortling has caused you to drool just a bit. Use your hanky like a good little despot. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-the-not-joy-actually/274845/119 "2004-11-18T19:52:26Z")
**BWAHAHAHAHA!!!** I have been proofreading some of _The Evil_.[sup]TM[/sup] It is almost too much for even me, the source of _The Evil_,[sup]TM[/sup] to take. Perhaps it should be renamed _ **THE HORROR!** _[sup]TM[/sup] It may even surpass the unmerciful: **BENCHMARKING FOR SUCCESS** Ok, maybe not. That was, indeed, one of my crowning moments in managerial unholy creationism. The stench of _The Evil_[sup]TM[/sup] is now beginning to pervade the very air we breathe for several blocks surrounding my office. **BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!** BTW, where the heck’s **welby** been? ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-the-not-joy-actually/274845/120 "2004-11-18T19:52:26Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > **Bumba** when all else fails, duct tape! And why are you gluing pink foam anyways? At the risk of compromising my reputation as a sauve and de-boner man of the world, I’m making a (small) [mountain](http://www.effectnet.com/bear503/olympus%20090b.jpg) :eek: I do hope you’ll continue to speak to me. _whimper_ Also, I must confess to being mystified by the reference to **Puggy** ’s breast(s). When I clicked on the referenced link I got a picture of what appeared to be a chocolate cake covered with chocolate icing. Now if it had been a breast covered with chocolate icing, well, I would have to say (one of) my prayers had been answered, but as it is… 😕 Calm down **Swampy** , here, have some chocolate. 😃 And now, for my sig line. Just because… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-the-not-joy-actually/274845.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-the-not-joy-actually/274845.md?page=7)