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Re: Has anyone seen or heard from Jon??
Posted by: splat21 (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: July 17, 2003 10:00PM

I bow down to all of you... I've got a Spec Ops visitor's pass (and proud to have it) - but I'm not giving it back so Security'll be after me shortly!



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Re: Has anyone seen or heard from Jon??
Posted by: kaz (139.134.57.---)
Date: July 18, 2003 03:19AM

I don't have anything exciting like that. *sigh* Australia misses out again.


Re: Has anyone seen or heard from Jon??
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: July 18, 2003 11:06PM

David **** ******, Lingerie Department, 1,402,105.

Jasper noticed (!) I was Sarah's boss and corporate madman. I have the lowest number I have heard of --- anyone lower?

1) Is it a compliment or an insult to have a low number!?

2) If Dr Jim Slip has a higher number than me, he will have to keep his shoes ON to show respect.

Jasper liked the idea of 'Vaartenen-Shitten' as a Goliath subsidiary. We found the rules were eerily similar to Goliath's. Probably because Jasper has written something eerily real!


Re: Has anyone seen or heard from Jon??
Posted by: Sarah (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: July 18, 2003 11:13PM

It's a compliment. If you were number 1, you'd own Goliath.



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

Re: Has anyone seen or heard from Jon??
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: July 18, 2003 11:18PM

And then I'd be Jack Schitt ??? Actually, who DOES own Goliath?

Surely it just means I'm a bigger Schitt than you are (not difficult).


Re: Has anyone seen or heard from Jon??
Posted by: Magda (---.dialip.mich.net)
Date: July 19, 2003 04:05AM

FWIW I've got corporate ladder position 7,426,608 (Soft Toy Division).

What I'm not sure about is if higher or lower is better. The words on the back say:
Higher Corporate Ladder employees have precedence over any lower.

So does this mean a lower number, or a higher one?



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--Ross Smith

Re: Has anyone seen or heard from Jon??
Posted by: ilovespike (---.visp.co.nz)
Date: July 19, 2003 11:39AM

Ditto Kaz! Why is it that everywhere thinks "Down Under" doesn't count? *big sigh*

from moy (as we say down under) :)



"What I need is a strong drink and a peer-group." -Ford Prefect

Re: Has anyone seen or heard from Jon??
Posted by: splat21 (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: July 19, 2003 07:02PM

Yeah but wait till the tour of Australia - then we'll all be jealous of you...



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Re: Has anyone seen or heard from Jon??
Posted by: dante (---.internal.omneuk.com)
Date: July 21, 2003 06:39PM

I think the lower the better. Ie, the lower your number the higher you are on the corporate ladder... I'm 9 million and something, anyway. Media.



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Re: Has anyone seen or heard from Jon??
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: July 21, 2003 06:40PM

I got asked what a dramady was last night. i reckon it's a kind of Australian camel.



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Re: Has anyone seen or heard from Jon??
Posted by: dante (---.internal.omneuk.com)
Date: July 21, 2003 09:58PM

Were you playing Call My Bluff?



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Re: Has anyone seen or heard from Jon??
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: July 21, 2003 11:05PM

No, more like 'Find everything ever written by PSD'. I don't know where it was spotted, but apparently it related to something I'd written. Like I'd remember that....



PSD

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Re: Has anyone seen or heard from Jon??
Posted by: kaz (139.134.58.---)
Date: July 22, 2003 12:28AM

So whens the Aussie tour? Quick! Quick! Enquiring minds want to know!!!


Re: Has anyone seen or heard from Jon??
Posted by: splat21 (195.217.253.---)
Date: July 22, 2003 08:03AM

um that'd be me not concentrating when I read the touring page... sorry kaz!



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Re: Has anyone seen or heard from Jon??
Posted by: kaz (139.134.58.---)
Date: July 22, 2003 10:38AM

oh, Bollocks!

got the book, BTW, Alison. If you check your email you'll see a message form me about it. I'm telling you here because I'm so excited. Chapter 9 and counting. Woohoo!


Re: Has anyone seen or heard from Jon??
Posted by: splat21 (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: July 22, 2003 05:52PM

excellent! Good innit?



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Re: Has anyone seen or heard from Jon??
Posted by: kaz (139.134.58.---)
Date: July 23, 2003 12:50AM

Pretty speccy!


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