My Mom was from the UK. No offense meant, but you guy's have some wierd ideas about pronounciation...
This thread reminded me of a funny story I thought I would share.
Years ago, I worked for a company making medical test instruments. The machines had an IBM PC system embedded in them.
My boss was a PHD, and was also an EE Professor at the University of New Mexico.
He told me one day he had a former student who just got her degree, and she was going to start work the next week. He wanted me to supervise her and get her started.
Now, she was a pretty gal, and quite well endowed, if you know what I mean.
The first task I gave her was to check out some Motherboards. We had a test setup using the old (circa 1984) PC type chassis. I showed her what the various connectors were, and told her to try each Motherboard and make sure they powered up.I asked her if she had any questions, and she said rather smugly, "I built my first comuter at home, I know how to do this!"
An hour later, she came to me and told me that the first five boards wouldn't even boot up, and she thought there was something wrong with the power supply. She told me that when she applied power, the power supply would start up, and then immediately shut down.
So I we went over to her bench. I couldn't believe my eyes! She had the bare Motherboard sitting on top of the power supply, shorting everythng out.!
I couldn't help myself, I asked her...."How did you get an EE degree and not know how stupid this is? You don't put a live circuit board on top of a piece of metal! That is the dumbest thing I have ever seen!"
She got real ****y, and stormed away. She went into my bosses office and closed the door.
We couldn't here anything, but we all knew she was screaming.
A few minutes later, my boss came out. He was mad as hell at me.
"How dare you talk to her like that, she has a Degree, and you are just a Technician!"
So I showed him what she was doing, and I told him that whoever gave her a Degree was a bigger idiot than she was! I think I also said something about her getting a degree just because she had big ***'s because she was dumber than a pile of rocks!"
I got fired that day.....because it seems that this hottie was involved with my boss on more than just a "proffessional relationship"
But it turned out OK.....I got a new and better job the next day......and that company went out of business a few months later!
