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4th Apr 2013, 2:44 pm | #1 |
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Stop Monkey-ing About!
Well I just came across this old ad. It cracked me up and I just had to share a screen shot with you!
I wonder if he got it working in the end?
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4th Apr 2013, 3:20 pm | #2 |
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Re: Stop Monkey-ing About!
Nice one! Reminds me of a Mastercare field engineer!!
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4th Apr 2013, 3:40 pm | #3 |
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Re: Stop Monkey-ing About!
Don't say such nasty things about me...J.
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4th Apr 2013, 11:39 pm | #4 |
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Re: Stop Monkey-ing About!
Nothing wrong with a Mastercare field engineer (Croydon) on the other hand....
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5th Apr 2013, 12:09 am | #5 |
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Re: Stop Monkey-ing About!
Now now, behave yourselves,
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5th Apr 2013, 6:24 am | #6 |
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Re: Stop Monkey-ing About!
That Chimp probably got promoted to work in Dixon stores !
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5th Apr 2013, 8:36 am | #7 |
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Re: Stop Monkey-ing About!
He's doing necessary research.
When he's finished, he and the nine hundred and ninety nine others who are collaborating on the project will be given the typewriters which will enable them to write the service manual. David
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5th Apr 2013, 9:50 am | #8 |
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He's the guy that writes the modification bulletins..J.
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5th Apr 2013, 10:59 am | #9 |
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Re: Stop Monkey-ing About!
There's times I could have done with gripping feet when working on stuff.
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5th Apr 2013, 11:50 am | #10 |
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Re: Stop Monkey-ing About!
Yeah especially on some of the repairs that we did in customers' houses.
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Shouldn't it be 999,999 others, though- or are service manuals less taxing than Shakespeare's works?
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Taking up this line of thinking and paraphrasing a famous quote: If an infinite number of monkeys sat down with an infinite number of faulty sets randomly changing components.................. |
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5th Apr 2013, 12:17 pm | #13 |
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Well, there's a lot more pictures....
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5th Apr 2013, 3:36 pm | #14 |
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