That One Glorious Moment

Mar. 29th, 2007 at 9:24 PM

$BOSS: "This is our plan of attack."
Me: "Looks like a nail..."
$BOSS: "Wha-? Oh, very funny. How long have you been waiting to say that?"
Me: "Err..." *counts on fingers* "Ten, maybe eleven years?"

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dgg

Mar. 29th, 2007 08:25 pm (UTC)

Consider this stolen.

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digitalraven

Mar. 29th, 2007 09:11 pm (UTC)

Google:// "Goon Show" Scripts

Look for "Tales of Men's Shirts".

You can thank me later.

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blinovitch

Mar. 29th, 2007 08:53 pm (UTC)

Is this the hammer thing, or a quote from somewhere?

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digitalraven

Mar. 29th, 2007 09:06 pm (UTC)

"the hammer thing"?

It's one of the oldest jokes on earth.

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blinovitch

Mar. 29th, 2007 09:15 pm (UTC)

The thing about the oldest jokes on Earth is that I seemed to have missed hearing most of them.

"The hammer thing" is "every problem looks like a nail when all you've got is a hammer."

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digitalraven

Mar. 29th, 2007 09:27 pm (UTC)

A tack is a type of cut nail, commonly used to hold light pieces of wood together.

A plan can refer to a technical drawing as well as a detailed description of how something is to be done.

Hence the confusion between "plan of attack" and "schematic of a nail".

Schematic of a Nail. Now there's a hard-metal band to go alongside The Smell of Hammers. Admittedly, they'd be the System of a Down to Smell's Nine Inch Nails, but what can any of us do?

And with regrds to your hammer thing: When all you have is a Leatherman, every problem looks Leathermanipuable.

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