Tuesday, September 13, 2011

One Who Knows

Unless the purchasing agent has the list of your competitor's bids on the table.




Reading Backwards




11 comments:

DougM said...

... or unless there's an ambulance coming towards you.

Anonymous said...

Or dyslexic. I swear to dog!

Grumpyunk said...

Roger, You will want to see this video of the First Wookie at the 9-11 flag ceremony.
Bitch.

"All this for that flag?"
http://tinyurl.com/6bvwwgb

Anonymous said...

Or you are reading the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci in the original.
What, you only can read one language? What are you? American?

B....... said...

˙˙˙˙suɐǝɯ ʇı ʇɐɥʍ ʍǝןɔ ɐ ʇ,uǝʌɐɥ ı ʇnq 'ʇı pɐǝɹ pןnoɔ ı

TimO said...

A more useful skill I learned a long time ago is to read upside down.

Comes in very handy at job interviews/reviews and doctor visits....

Anonymous said...

I do the upside-down thing exceedingly well, and used to have a little boss who eventually discovered my little parlor trick, and would turn everything on his desk upside down when he needed to have a little chat about certain, um, reactions I would have to certain, um, dumbass things he would do occasionally. We talked a lot, it seemed like. He never clued into the option of coming down the hall to my office and shutting the door behind him, so he was forever flipping the crap on his desk one way or the other.

Sir H/Comet

el bocopro said...

Found out just before I retired that my boss liked to let himself into people's offices and read stuff that was lying around.

For a while I wrote cryptic notes about absolutely nothing of consequence using a patois of Spanish, French, Italian, Pilipino, German, and the few Japanese terms I was familiar with.

Found out that he was pretty savvy in all the Romance languages, but needed help with the German and Tagalog 'cause the lady who taught German told me he had asked what a few words meant, and an adjunct who was married to a Pinay said he had inquired about some words and phrases I'd used.

Never pulled the gotcha on him, though, 'cause the faculty ganged up on him and basically ran him outta town in a very quiet office coup.

Esteve said...

Anonymous brought to mind the dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac who would lay awake at night wondering if there really was a doG.

Anonymous said...

Learned to read upside-down and backwards while proofing ads in the old hot-type newspaper days.

Gayle Miller said...

Most even halfway decent secretaries and ALL legal secretaries possess this talent! We are also very good at reading the minds of attorneys because they expect us to do 100% of the job with 25% of the instructions!

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