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I was trying to find a way to stretch Beirut to 7 letters.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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In those situations (like most) it is best to just pass the blame. Just state the answer as fact, and tell the OP that they counted wrong.
The key to making this work is: don't back down! They will eventually tire and just let you have it 
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That could be a viable approach.
My preemptive answer for tomorrow is:
HADDOCK (too obvious to require an explanation!)
Now to think of a clue for Thursday ...
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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PeejayAdams wrote: HADDOCK
Once owned, since lost. Where my boat sleeps next to a fish (8)
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Are you sure you counted right? The answer is quite clearly POLLOCK but that only has 7 letters ...
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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PeejayAdams wrote: The answer is quite clearly POLLOCK but that only has 7 letters
Actually, if you count again you will find that HERRING is 8 letters like I said. But I am tired of arguing, so I concede, you win... you get to do yesterdays clue!
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I expected Michael Martin would pop in with "scrotum" as the answer!
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Hauled into a managers meeting, which is already in full stream, to 'advise' on some reports they (think they) require...
The first thing I hear is the one phrase guaranteed to strike terror into me and raise the hairs on the back of my neck - "THIS IS REALLY SIMPLE AND WE'RE SURE IT WON'T TAKE YOU LONG..."
Now I know I'm in trouble.
Spent the next twenty minutes trying to explain why there were technical reasons it would be anything but simple, while they got more and more annoyed at my obvious stupidity (to the extent that one started 'teaching' me how to cut and paste in Excel....)
These people think every page in the application is a seperate DB table (despite being told on numerous occasions that its not that simple) which is why it should be so easy to get the info into a report - just go to that page...
I need a different job! 
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How far is too far?
Hard to say. Punching them in the face would doubtlessly be a valid response. But gutting them with a swiss army knife may be going too far in some peoples opinion... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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but so satisfying....
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Does tend to leave a stain on your resume though: "... and in 2018, I gutted the board of Directors with a swiss army knife ..."
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Some of the people I work with would consider that a plus point.
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I agree - but they tend not to be the ones doing the hiring though.
While it can be considered as "pest control" by normal people ...
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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"Survival skills" sounds a lot better
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You've been on too many "team bonding" exercises! 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Not in mine!
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I have the version up (comes with saw & file blades) on my belt now...
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OK - compromise. Use the corkscrew. This also ads a little bit of a poetic element, as well.
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That's the point that you inform them that they brought you in for your technical expertise and that you have advised them of the difficulty of the task. Remind them that, when you overrun other tasks because this one has been underestimated, that you will be referring back to the meeting as to the reason why other tasks have not been completed. Send a confirmation email afterwards otherwise they will "forget" that it was their idea.
This space for rent
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Been practicing that insurance for some time.... 
Worst of it is, I'd love to be given the chance to do the kind of data analysis which would genuinely help them out but they won't hear of it - to much distraction from the 'real' work... 
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Why do you want to write tests, they don't produce anything and they take time away from the project.
You must work in a financial institution, EVERYthing works on Excel, and what do you mean a database is not a spreadsheet, everything is a spreadsheet.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Yeah, been there, changing jobs rarely helps this phenomenon. Sadly, its the same almost everywhere.
In such cases, the following provides a laugh and helps preserve some semblance of sanity.
The Expert (Short Comedy Sketch) - YouTube[^]
In my own career, one of my favorites was being tasked with designing a single server application with "unlimited capacity". I patiently tried to explain that its not possible to have infinite capacity in the real world...that some resource would always limit capacity.
The response, "You're being unreasonable, I said 'unlimited' not 'infinite'".
I simply sighed and resisted the urge to fetch a dictionary. Days like these are why they invented beer 
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I didn't know you worked here...
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Regrettably, in some sense, I think we all work "here"
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