The case of the Midnight Scribbler
Paul and I have a little name page behind the glass panel in our office door. It reads, “Tom Rayner, Paul Godfrey, No Dugongs, No Turtles, No Dolphins”.
Recently there’s been an ongoing PostIt-Note battle with an assailant, going only by the name, “S.”, who replied “No! just boring, little, inconsequential, not-even-brightly-coloured FISH!”
This sounded particularly like the work of a marine Bbologist, so I replied, “AND NO IGNORANT MARINE BIOLOGISTS - try the Great Northern”. The great northern is a pub in town where the marine biologists gather to put jellyfish down each others pants and masturbate over dolphin hydro-acoustics.
So today we got this reply, “Ooooo, you just broke one of the rules of science and made any assumption with no data to back it up, TUT TUT!”.
I replied, as you can see from the photo, that this obviously implied that the person was either not ignorant or not a marine biologist. I thought the two were mutually inclusive.
We await the next installment with baited breath. Clwedd, our new office mate is just setting up his webcam to take photos every 30 seconds so that we can catch the assailant.
August 19th, 2005 at 7:29 am
we shall organise a group beating when this insubordinate is found
August 19th, 2005 at 7:44 am
Didn’t the culprit itself break one of the rules of science (By the way, I thought Dominant people scorned rules anyway!) by not admitting to the authorship of its graffitti? I thought all scientists craved publicity. Sounds to me like the cleaner did it
August 19th, 2005 at 7:49 am
And since when are assumptions unscientific?
And how is that a rule of science anyhoo?
August 19th, 2005 at 7:56 am
The arguements that the subordinate is making sound a lot like a first year student, but I have a feeling that Sam Fox could be behind it. She loves to stir - probably even more than me
August 19th, 2005 at 9:40 am
I smell a sepo there though, coloured has been spelt colored! shame shame shame
August 19th, 2005 at 10:40 am
oooo. nice detective work PI timtim
August 19th, 2005 at 10:50 am
Can we see a piccy of Sam Fox? We need to know what we are dealing with here. (A webcam video will do
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August 19th, 2005 at 10:53 am
Nah, don’t think it’s her, she would’ve spelt coloured.
August 19th, 2005 at 10:56 am
I think there is a U in there- it think it has formed part of the stem of the R i.e. it is not a large gap between O (which does have a straight right side!) and R but a space entirely filled by the U. We may be dealing with an Aussie
August 19th, 2005 at 11:00 am
check it, aussie indeed
August 19th, 2005 at 11:10 am
I stand corrected, I thought that might have been the case but timtim PI has so many cases on the run that one is bound to slip through the cracks
August 19th, 2005 at 11:20 am
I focus on a niche market and provide thorough service to a few select clients
August 19th, 2005 at 11:22 am
I just got into the industry so that i could have a frosted glass window in my office door with my name stenciled on it!
August 19th, 2005 at 11:24 am
and today is your day to devote time to T&Z Phil? just letting the boys and Jodi know you still care, or at least that it is Friday almost PM and you can care more than work. It’s almost beerO’Clock in suit world is it not?
August 19th, 2005 at 11:27 am
I just sold my MD pack for $80 and a bottle of this. Looks like it’s nearly wine-o-clock.
August 19th, 2005 at 12:08 pm
Yes it is. in fact I am off to the pub now. I will have one for you
August 19th, 2005 at 12:18 pm
ok philphil just don’t over do it. We dominant commenters are few and far between, at least save injury until after the 31st.
August 19th, 2005 at 12:21 pm
merde, my comments are in french!!
August 19th, 2005 at 12:22 pm
what? they look like english to me.
August 19th, 2005 at 12:22 pm
sorry, I just looked at T&Z in french
August 19th, 2005 at 3:17 pm
I have come through - injury free. Until the next challenge!!!
August 21st, 2005 at 10:47 pm
I think we can almost close this case:
August 22nd, 2005 at 2:10 pm
Are we still going on this?…
It is clearly the work of the female of the species. Males don’t put girly circles at the base of an exclamation mark like that (first pic). Let alone say “tut tut”. And another thing… who other than a female fresher would be so passionate about “brightly-coloured” things?