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Pcottraux's Weekly FReeptoon
August 23, 2006 | pcottraux

Posted on 08/23/2006 3:03:32 PM PDT by pcottraux

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And now the Dinklemeyer:

Time has not been too kind to this Dinklemeyer strip for some reason. As the years have gone by, it has become unrecognizably smudged. For this reason, coupled with my already bad handwriting, subtitles had to be provided this week.

I must ask for apologies to any vertically challenged people who may be out there reading this.

The whole “work puzzle” idea is sprung from the fact that often, on field trips, the tour guides will give you some stupid worksheet to do, or the teacher will make you take notes. Who wants to do book work on a field trip? We’re supposed to be having fun!

The real-life field trip on which this cartoon is based did in fact have an annoying work puzzle assigned to us by the tour guides. None of us actually did it. I remember a guy saying to me, “Come on…what are they going to do to us if we don’t do our puzzle?”

However, should you choose not to do the assigned work, there’s that feeling of having a little tiny annoying voice in your head saying YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING YOUR PUZZLE!” So I came up with the idea of tiny little people (being either more tolerant or more politically correct, I don’t address them as the “M” word anymore), being assigned to each student to follow them around and harass them into working on their puzzles.

As last week, the real students who went on this field trip found this story to be hysterical.


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To: pcottraux
Nah. My tagline should read WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
41 posted on 08/23/2006 9:14:02 PM PDT by Maximus_Ridiculousness (Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.)
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To: Maximus_Ridiculousness

Would be hard to cram all that into those little bitty parenthises, though.


42 posted on 08/23/2006 9:17:19 PM PDT by pcottraux (It's pronounced "P. Coe-troe.")
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To: Maximus_Ridiculousness

Hellooooo?


43 posted on 08/23/2006 9:30:53 PM PDT by pcottraux (It's pronounced "P. Coe-troe.")
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To: pcottraux

I'm here. I still have a lot to do and I am running out of time.


44 posted on 08/23/2006 9:51:08 PM PDT by Maximus_Ridiculousness (Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.)
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To: Maximus_Ridiculousness

Guess I won't ask you how your day went.


45 posted on 08/23/2006 9:54:09 PM PDT by pcottraux (It's pronounced "P. Coe-troe.")
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To: pcottraux

My day was total utter chaos. It'll have to wait until this weekend or Friday night. :(


46 posted on 08/23/2006 9:56:41 PM PDT by Maximus_Ridiculousness (Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.)
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To: Maximus_Ridiculousness

You mean you're booked all Thursday and Friday?


47 posted on 08/23/2006 9:58:23 PM PDT by pcottraux (It's pronounced "P. Coe-troe.")
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To: pcottraux

Great job, pcottraux!


48 posted on 08/24/2006 8:59:54 AM PDT by AmericaUnite
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To: pcottraux

Snicker Snicker! Love the "Etch a Sketch" one!


49 posted on 08/24/2006 12:48:10 PM PDT by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers - Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason)
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To: AmericaUnite; areafiftyone

Thanks, FRiends.


50 posted on 08/24/2006 6:57:49 PM PDT by pcottraux (It's pronounced "P. Coe-troe.")
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To: pcottraux

Hey Phil. You around. Just dropping by to say hi for a short while.


51 posted on 08/24/2006 9:16:55 PM PDT by Maximus_Ridiculousness (Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.)
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To: Maximus_Ridiculousness

Aw...

(Barb withdrawel starting to kick in).


52 posted on 08/24/2006 9:18:44 PM PDT by pcottraux (It's pronounced "P. Coe-troe.")
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Well, in a nutshell, yesterday was hell. Got in at 7am. Had to sit in a five hour meeting and do close to nothing. Then I worked till 7:15pm to try and catch up on all the things I couldn’t do because of the meeting (I got no lunch break either – but I did get food to eat). Before I left the office I got this HUGE task dumped on me, and I just about exploded. Then when I got home I clocked 2 more hours on the laptop.

Today was MUCH better. The HUGE task I was worried sick about getting done on time got partially cut down, so now it seems it will be much more manageable for me.

Tomorrow will be even better cause our department is going to Santa Cruz Boardwalk all day (and I get to go too). So there will be no work tomorrow. YIIPPEEEE! Not sure what time I’ll be home, however.


53 posted on 08/24/2006 9:24:20 PM PDT by Maximus_Ridiculousness (Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.)
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To: Maximus_Ridiculousness

See, there's a bright light at the end of the tunnel.

Trust me, I know exactly how you feel. If I never see another "Back-to-school" sale again, that's fine with me.


54 posted on 08/24/2006 9:26:15 PM PDT by pcottraux (It's pronounced "P. Coe-troe.")
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To: pcottraux
(Barb withdrawel starting to kick in).

I know. I have Phil withdrawl too.

(I mentioned our 'withdrawls' to hubby and got reeeeeeeelllly strange looks.) :P

55 posted on 08/24/2006 9:26:44 PM PDT by Maximus_Ridiculousness (Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.)
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To: pcottraux

Put me on your ping list pc, very funny!!


56 posted on 08/24/2006 9:30:21 PM PDT by phoenix0468 (http://www.mylocalforum.com -- Go Speak Your Mind.)
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To: pcottraux
The BIGGEST thing I miss from doing retail/customer service was not having to take your work home, even if you work hard, long hours, everything ends when you go home.

Everyone in the office takes their blackberrys every-freakin-where. It's insane. People are checking email at 1 in the morning. It's just sick. Maybe that's Silicon Valley mentality. I never want to own a BB. Never.

57 posted on 08/24/2006 9:30:43 PM PDT by Maximus_Ridiculousness (Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.)
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To: Maximus_Ridiculousness

Side effects include nausea, diarrhea, vomitting, inside-out-nostrils, head-banging, hallucinations, and visions of angry leprachauns throwing spaghetti at one another.

(You have a mail to read).


58 posted on 08/24/2006 9:30:57 PM PDT by pcottraux (It's pronounced "P. Coe-troe.")
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To: phoenix0468

Oh, hello, there. Welcome aboard.

(Archives on my homepage--I make a habit of telling everyone who joins up first thing).


59 posted on 08/24/2006 9:32:40 PM PDT by pcottraux (It's pronounced "P. Coe-troe.")
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To: pcottraux
OMG. I read the PM.


60 posted on 08/24/2006 9:37:22 PM PDT by Maximus_Ridiculousness (Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.)
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