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jcrawf02 (4/13/2010)
I was flying back from Texas on the 1st, and the pilot told everybody that the airport was closed due to an emergency, and we were diverting to Dayton (45 minutes away, more or less). I thought it was a joke right off the bat, but then started second-guessing because he waited a good five minutes before he fessed up.
That was a pretty good one.

I imagine a lot of people were somewhat annoyed, then relieved, and then annoyed again.

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Trey Staker SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4796 More actions · Answer 2

Speaking of funny things; My boss in our meeting today passed out the swag from sales people that have visited him in the past year or so. I ended up with a red "Oracle" hat as a joke. I'm thinking about taking a black sharpie to it and making a circle with a line over the word Oracle and wearing it to the next team meeting.

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CirquedeSQLeil (4/13/2010)
jcrawf02 (4/13/2010)
I was flying back from Texas on the 1st, and the pilot told everybody that the airport was closed due to an emergency, and we were diverting to Dayton (45 minutes away, more or less). I thought it was a joke right off the bat, but then started second-guessing because he waited a good five minutes before he fessed up.
That was a pretty good one.
I imagine a lot of people were somewhat annoyed, then relieved, and then annoyed again.

Yeah, but they were already flying somewhere, so annoyed was a given :hehe:

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Trey Staker (4/13/2010)
Speaking of funny things; My boss in our meeting today passed out the swag from sales people that have visited him in the past year or so. I ended up with a red "Oracle" hat as a joke. I'm thinking about taking a black sharpie to it and making a circle with a line over the word Oracle and wearing it to the next team meeting.

Hah, I was reading that and got to passed and immediately thought gas. Then read the next word "out" and thought what a shame. The Oracle hat is funny too. I like the Sharpie idea though - that is funny too.

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Roy Ernest (4/13/2010)
That someone has a Black belt... Watch out... :hehe:

Yeah, but I have mad Ninja skills... they'll never see me coming ...:cool:

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Roy Ernest (4/13/2010)
That someone has a Black belt... Watch out... :hehe:
Yeah, but I have mad Ninja skills... they'll never see me coming ...:cool:

Fyi: NINJA = No Income, No Job Applications...

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 7

Is there anybody else at the playground now that I can come out to play?

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 8

Hey Steve, I just saw a post from SiteOwners and see that they have 10,000+ pts. We don't see them in the points shakedown. Why is that? Are they ranked at all?

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic349213-61-1.aspx

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 9

Oddity in the forums. I just noticed that I lost 27 points today. Am curious where they could have gone.

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CirquedeSQLeil (4/13/2010)
Oddity in the forums. I just noticed that I lost 27 points today. Am curious where they could have gone.

The entity known as "The Thread" randomly deducts points that were posted is said entity.

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CirquedeSQLeil (4/13/2010)
Oddity in the forums. I just noticed that I lost 27 points today. Am curious where they could have gone.
The entity known as "The Thread" randomly deducts points that were posted is said entity.

I knew it - darn Thread.

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Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 12

CirquedeSQLeil (4/13/2010)
Oddity in the forums. I just noticed that I lost 27 points today. Am curious where they could have gone.

Those 27 points were from bad jokes that did not deserve any points.

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GSquared SSC Guru Points: 260824 More actions · Answer 13

Alvin Ramard (4/14/2010)
CirquedeSQLeil (4/13/2010)
Oddity in the forums. I just noticed that I lost 27 points today. Am curious where they could have gone.
Those 27 points were from bad jokes that did not deserve any points.

If that's true, I should probably have a negative points total. 🙂

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Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 14

GSquared (4/14/2010)
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CirquedeSQLeil (4/13/2010)
Oddity in the forums. I just noticed that I lost 27 points today. Am curious where they could have gone.
Those 27 points were from bad jokes that did not deserve any points.
If that's true, I should probably have a negative points total. 🙂

Me? Moi? What do you mean by "probably"? 😛

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736270 More actions · Answer 15

Hmmm, remove points for bad jokes. I might need to get a big purple button on each post for enforcing that.