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SamC
White Water Yakist

3467 Posts

Posted - 2006-09-12 : 12:52:59

-- True story from the Hoover Dam construction. A "High scaler" was a worker that climbed high on the canyon walls to do construction work.

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Perhaps the most famous feat any of the high scalers ever performed was a daring midair rescue. Burl R. Rutledge, a Bureau of Reclamation engineer, fell from the canyon rim. Twenty-five feet below, high scaler Oliver Cowan heard Rutledge slip. Without a moment's hesitation, he swung himself out and seized Rutledge's leg. A few seconds later, high scaler Arnold Parks swung over and pinned Rutledge's body to the canyon wall. The scalers held Rutledge until a line was dropped and secured around him and the shaken engineer was pulled, unharmed, to safety.

http://www.usbr.gov/lc/hooverdam/History/essays/hscaler.html

TG
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

6065 Posts

Posted - 2006-09-12 : 13:34:45

Oh yeah...the stories I could tell...

Once I was at my coworker's desk leaning against her cubical wall trying to see down here blouse, when a book fell off her shelf and nearly hit me...man, that was scary!

Be One with the Optimizer
TG

Kristen
Test

22859 Posts

Posted - 2006-09-12 : 14:50:40

Surprised you noticed TG !! (The BOOK I mean!)

Michael Valentine Jones
Yak DBA Kernel (pronounced Colonel)

7020 Posts

Posted - 2006-09-12 : 15:39:42

Slightly open blouses are a leading cause of on the job injuries.

CODO ERGO SUM

SwePeso
Patron Saint of Lost Yaks

30421 Posts

Posted - 2006-09-12 : 16:33:57

Is that the same warm fuzzy feeling you get when you are out on a client's site and asking for a disaster/recovery plan and they look at you and have no clue what you just said?
Especially when they call you to investigate their database environment...

Peter Larsson
Helsingborg, Sweden

robvolk
Most Valuable Yak

15732 Posts

Posted - 2006-09-12 : 16:58:14

quote:
Slightly open blouses are a leading cause of on the job injuries.

Oh hell no, you should see what happens with fully-open blouses.

Michael Valentine Jones
Yak DBA Kernel (pronounced Colonel)

7020 Posts

Posted - 2006-09-12 : 17:11:49

quote:
Originally posted by Peso

Is that the same warm fuzzy feeling you get when you are out on a client's site and asking for a disaster/recovery plan and they look at you and have no clue what you just said?
Especially when they call you to investigate their database environment...

Peter Larsson
Helsingborg, Sweden

It’s the feeling you get when you ask a DBA job candidate to explain what a constraint is, and they look at you like your dog would if you asked the same question.

CODO ERGO SUM

SwePeso
Patron Saint of Lost Yaks

30421 Posts

Posted - 2006-09-13 : 00:46:08

Most probably

Peter Larsson
Helsingborg, Sweden

Kristen
Test

22859 Posts

Posted - 2006-09-13 : 01:16:19

"Slightly open blouses are a leading cause of on the job injuries"

Do you have a different definition of "on the job" over there, to over here?

Kristen

elwoos
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

2052 Posts

Posted - 2006-09-13 : 03:19:46

quote:
Do you have a different definition of "on the job" over there, to over here?

ROFL - Ladies close your eyes!

steve

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Don't worry head. The computer will do all the thinking from now on.

khtan
In (Som, Ni, Yak)

17689 Posts

Posted - 2006-09-13 : 03:49:19

quote:
Originally posted by elwoos

quote:
Do you have a different definition of "on the job" over there, to over here?

ROFL - Ladies close your eyes!

steve

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Don't worry head. The computer will do all the thinking from now on.

Is this one of those UK jokes ? I don't get it at all