#955 – Monolith
Posted on February 8, 2010 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
Somehow I’ve managed to get myself into a similar situation at work lately. I’ll get a request to do something that seems silly and so I will ask for clarification. They insist “Yes, please do it exactly as you described.” So I give up and complete the job. I send it out for their approval and “Please do everything completely different.”
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Parsing sentences – Such an overlooked skill. 😛
Don’t think I could count how many times that has happened to me… 🙁
Then again, karma is a rather mischievous mistress. Heh.
What do you do, Chris? I thought Biff was your job.
Also biff ordered a Fent. Ordering more would make him own fents.
“Oh (scatological reference), you did it just the way I told you to!”
I especially like how the title ties in to the comic.
yay for people being unable to articulate or parse simple ideas.
and lol fents.
I love to do this to people on purpose, Then they get mad and I don’t have to do work for them ever again 😀
I think Biff got ripped off. Now, if the work order had said “one-picket fence,” then that would have been a different matter (cf. http://partiallyclips.com/2005/09/22/witness-stand/).
Ask for sense and someone gives you a penny.
One picket does not a fence make. Biff should sue.
Ha ha! Never though about it that way. I’m guessing “Thing you get that are not what you mean but they are what you said” week.
As I working in construction, my first reaction is to shake my head in empathetic dismay. I’ve seen this principle put to practice LITERALLY… Today’s comic will go on the break room bulletin board.
He could put a sign on it saying “Need more pickets”?
Yeah, and he’d probably get a bunch of striking union members to sit on his lawn, too
Although, Biff has a case here.
In “One picket fence,” the “one” applies to “fence.”
In “One-picket fence,” the “one” applies to “picket.”
So it’s the contractors, not Biff who have messed up their English.
Hasn’t anyone caught on yet. This week is “Literal Week”! YAY FOR DOING WHAT IT MEANS!
Mad David: I agree..
The English is messed up.
End road work. Drive through window. Dodge trucks.
What’s that in the road, a head?
(What’s for dinner, mom? What’s in the bag, Dad? What’s this thing called, love? See, it’s all in the delivery…)