And do I ever have a picture to fit that title.
Sent to me by Ralph Gizzip and others.
Before I start, the latest Carnival of the Vanities is up at Joanie's. She was nice enough to include two of my posts.
Screw the Pooch? WTF? What's that all about? Is that what James Brolin calls having sex with Babs? No. It's what I did at work on Thursday. But first, did you see Rodger's 20 Worst People In American History? One of the notable things about this list was that everyone on it was from the last 100 years with the exception of Benedict Arnold.
Anti-American Americans is a relatively recent phenomenon. I'm not talking about dissent here. I'm talking about hating America. Charles Lindbergh thought Hitler was a great guy and was against us entering the war, but after war was declared, he changed his tune. During WWII, Hollywood was patriotic.
Compare that to the Viet Nam War. If Jane Fonda had gone to Germany and made propaganda radio broadcasts, she would have been tried for treason when she returned. Bitch. Hollywood is overwhelmingly against our War on Terrorism, but they're for a symbolic war like sending men to die in a shithole like Liberia.
Did you notice that women are adequately represented on the Worst American's list? There are seven (eight if you count Bill Clinton who is a real pussy) women on the list. When John Hawkins put up his list of the top Americans, there were some female bloggers who were pissed that there were no women on the list. Some suggestions were Rosa Parks, Susan B. Anthony, and Gloria Steinem. Gloria Steinem?
I admire and respect one of the lady bloggers who suggested Ms. Steinem, but I have to say this: What the fuck are you thinking? I would be OK with Abigail Adams, Dolly Madison, Clara Barton, Susan B. Anthony, and Rosa Parks, but Gloria Steinem? That fucking hypocrite? Why not Eleanor Smeal? Why not Eleanor Clift? Gloria fucking Steinem? She lost any crediblity she may have had as a feminist icon when she defended Bill Clinton.
Lets get this straight. The feminists have been telling us for years that if any man in a position of power uses that power to seduce an underling, even if the sex is consensual that is sexual harassment. Had a CEO done what Clinton did, the feminists would have screamed for his scalp. Had an officer in the military done what Clinton did, he would have had to resign. And how can we ever forget that Clarence Thomas allegedly talking dirty was considered sexual harassment by Gloria, Eleanor Smeal, Barbara Boxer, and all the other shrieking harridans championing women's rights. And lest we forget, Robert Packwood had to resign and he wasn't even getting blowjobs. He was groping his office staff. This was before Gloria Steinem came out with the One Free Grope Rule.
One Free Grope Rule. What's that? Remember Kathleen Willey? Gloria defended Clinton by saying that even if he did assault Kathleen Willey, she told him to stop and he did. So, by that logic, every man now gets one free grope. I can just see Packwood.
"Wait a minute! No one told me it worked that way."
Sorry Bob. It only works if you're a Dimocrat.
Clarence Thomas: And they bitched about me talking about Long Dong Silver and pubic hairs on coke cans?
But Clarence, you don't understand. You're a black conservative. Don't you realize you're a disgrace to your race?
So all you ladies who suggested Gloria Steinem, are you willing to rethink your position?
And Ted Kennedy is a scumbag.
Now back to Screw the Pooch.
Everything was going fine Thursday morning. I was at my desk drinking coffee and checking out the Blogosphere and wondering when Toren Smith and Blogs of War were going to return when the phone rang. It was one of the programmers in Dallas. We're gonna do a test IPL of z/OS 1.4 on Saturday and he needed some help on some catalog work. Yeah, I can help.
Now, I'm normally pretty good at this kind of stuff but I screwed up one of my jobs and when I tried to clean everything up, I managed to trash half of the master catalog on our main system. Being a highly paid and highly trained data processing professional, I didn't panic. The programmer in Dallas didn't either. We finally decided that we'd just have our storage guy restore the catalog volume from the last backup, which he did. We shut down the system and brought it back up and it looked like everything was OK. My partner in crime took off early.
I figgered everything was all right until around 3:00 PM when the Help Desk called and said that one of the users was missing some logstreams. Don't ask. The logstreams were created over the weekend. The backup we restored from was from Friday. Busted! I screwed the pooch! So this is how Clinton felt the last time he had to have sex with Hillary.
My team lead would know how to fix this as the logstreams were created over the weekend via some automation routines. Unfortunately, he is off due to a death in the family. I got lucky! His backup was available. I told him what the problem was and what was missing and he was able to strip out the portion of the setup jobs that created the logstreams.
Right before I left work I Instant Messaged him about how I'd messed up and he replied. "We've all been there." Wrong. This is the very first time in over 12 years as a programmer that I have screwed sumpin' up that I had not been able to fix myself. It sucks!
It could have been worse.
I could have been forced to have to make it with Eleanor Clift.
Now that's screwing the pooch!
Posted by denny at July 24, 2003 09:23 PM