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AngryJason

We've got this application in a development environment that writes files to an external file system.  Seems that in this development environment, the file share is no longer available, and the application development team had no idea.  So, the conversation went a little something like this:


Me - The share is gone, our wintel engineer confirmed that it doesn't exist


Project Manager (PM) -  what do you mean?  Where is it? <--This opens the door for me, and now I'm trying to keep a deadpan delivery...


Me - That's what I'm trying to tell you kid.  It ain't there, it's been totally blown away.


PM - (Puzzled look) - How?


Me - Destroyed, by the Empire


PM - (Puzzled look) - Ok, how do we get it back?


 


Probably not as funny in print, but I assure you, I was more than pleased with that interchange.

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IAmTheLiquor·
LOL.
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JuggaloJedi·
nice.\r so did the PM ever catch on?
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TANK·
I used to goof on people like that for my own entertainment. I had some people convinced that the color of their network cable determined their access speed to the network. That the color changing ring on the outside of cisco wireless access points measured the mood in the office and in the olden days had a guy looking for his 'token' out of the token ring network cabling. Told him it fell out and he had to find it before it would work again.\r \r I could go on and on but those are my favs.
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buckeye75·
I do that with Monty Python quotes. Very few ever catch on. But I don't see how you can drop a Star Wars quote without people instantly knowing it
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AngryJason·
The PM was more insulted that I called him 'kid' than anything else. Another guy in the room shot me a knowing glance after I said destroyed by the empire. I typically do say \"I have a bad feeling about this\" whenever I can, but this time, it was set up to go into something else.\r \r I'm going to have to use the color of the network cable gag. I think I have some real live fish who would fall for that easily.
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deSoldier2001·
Nice job of referencing on the fly. Bringin movies to real life, nothing like it.