The Pessimist's Guide to Engineer-Talk
Date in my archives: 6-Oct-89
Forwarded with subject: Pessimist's guide to Engineer-talk
Newsgroup: rec.humor.funny
(what they say - what they mean) "That's interesting" - Shit! I've never seen anything remotely like that before. "We'll just run diagnostics" - I wonder if that'll give us a clue. "So we've eliminated XXX" - It's probably XXX, but it's bloody hard to get at. "I've just powered it down" - I tripped over that bloody power cord again "Ok, that's good" - What the hell was that noise?!? "We've noticed some failure evidence" - Something's burning... "If you'll just..." - I don't want to be the one to blame when it crashes "Yes, you'd expect to see that..." - Hell, that's stuffed as well! "We'll just fit a revision" - We'll put the same version in from a different tape.