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From: S. Travaglia, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
Subject: From harsh life experiences we all know that:
Keywords: swearing, chuckle
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Date: 6 Sep 89 10:30:04 GMT
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The Pessimist's guide to Engineer-talk.  (what they say - what they mean)
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"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.

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