I've sinned and I'm going to gather requirements

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Ryan M Jentzsch — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 01:09:00 GMT

ROTFLMAO

THANKS! I needed this laugh!

and BTW and FYI, after reading your post: "whoa...I know kung fu"

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Jason Mauss — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:48:00 GMT

hahah Peter...MrOneUpManShipMan ...that was great. I think I know a couple of those guys.

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Peter — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:35:00 GMT

May I add a couple to the stew?

MrExceptionMan: obsesses about odd boundary conditions to the exclusion of 99.9% of the system and/or data. This guy is real close to ARM. Rather than figure out why that SQL query returns the wrong data, he spent all day running the profiler to make it run faster, because it runs real slow on Tuesdays.

MrKnowItAll: you've seen Cliff Claven on Cheers, now see him in your cubicle. "Did you know that a butterfly beating its wings in China can cause a storm here in the states?" Some of these guys are serial yakkers. Like if you taped their mouth closed, their head would explode from the pressure.

MrExcuseMan: the cat ate his homework. really. Has at least one excuse for everything. "Late? That d**d butterfly made it rain on my way into work." Some folks use the F* word like its punctuation or something, this guy uses "because" instead.

MrOneUpManShipMan: If you did something, he did it bigger, longer ago or.... You've seen the Dilbert cartoon where 3 guys are sitting around the table:
Dilbert: I got a paper cut on my finger over the weekend.
Wally: I cut my hand over the weekend.
MrOUMSM: I cut my head off over the weekend

But I could be wrong, I might be describing different symptoms of incompetant people. You know the ones who keep talking so that you won't notice what isn't getting done? Sort of like the way a magician wiggles one hand so you won't observe the real (in)action?

BlunderMan Revisited

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Bill — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 06:50:00 GMT

What a Cool Post! I think i know all of those dudes.

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Pete — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 01:50:00 GMT

What about ObscureScenarioman (OSM). OSM is able to introduce scenarios that are critical to the success of the projct, and, if catered for, will also save the world from famine, but have the probability of occurring close to that of the invasion of earth by alien green mutant flamingos.

He can often be heard saying "but have you thought of", or "but it wont work if..", or "I still think we need to cater for...."

OSM is satisfied if his requirements mean an additional 30% of code/time/sweat/thinking - anything else and "you havent really thought it through"

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