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Old 1st December 2009   #1
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Don;t you wish we could say this to clients sometimes

A friend forwarded me this.


"It's like twitter. Except we charge people to use it."
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awesome!!!

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Insanely to the point.


Mark,

You have a sense of humour!!






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Insanely to the point.


Mark,

You have a sense of humour!!






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I wish I could take credit.
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Genius!!!
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My fellow subway commuters probobly thought I was having a seizure!

Bloody brilliant!

I might have to translate this into swedish and have it sent to all the "bad invoice payers"...
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I'll spend the money on drugs instead

check that one
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Made my day. Thank you!
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*snort*

Thanks for sharing that Henchman, there's never a bad time for snarky pie charts.
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ROTFL ......a ******** child with a spoon........lol Genius indeed!!
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Mark... priceless.
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too perfect.
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Thats amazing!
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A friend told me about Robin Cooper's "Timewaster" as being pretty similar. Haven't managed to find anything that doesn't send me to Amazon. Anyone?



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LOL! thumbsup Thats first pie chart had me cracking up.

I liked the one with the spider drawing too....
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That's a good line, Hench.

The thing I sometimes want to say to the client is, "Dude, back off, I'm on your side!"
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The guy who wrote that "David Thorne" is an Aussie, he is pretty famous here for being an online prankster.
All his email are the real deal, he just changes the names of those involved.
There is another funny one involving his Landlord.

I got that link forwarded to me as well the other day.
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that spider story.. its just freaking amazing
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This one's being sent to my favorite friends...they'll all understand only too well.
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That is great
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I just started reading them all... there goes the chances of getting any work done for the next hour....
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exactly. i'm gonna tell my client that in lieu of purchased time this afternoon to work on his e.p. that I have this picture of a spider I drew.
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