Freaking out the co-workers

[SeaCat]

Some of my co-workers feel they need extra pay to work with me. These tend to be the ones who don't appreciate my sense of humor.

A couple of months ago I showed up for work with a stick on label on my hard sided work bag:

"Clockwork Orange Psychiatric Center"

This morning my cooler was appropriately labeled:

"Soylent Green Inc."
"We serve Mankind"

Needless to say I enjoy playing mind games with my co-workers. I feel it keeps them on their toes.

Cat

 

[Dragonlipz]

They should accept less pay to be entertained by a master: I also provoke controversy in my workplace, albeit on a much more sedate level than yours since I am in a PC environment....

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

CAT

I'm reading a book about social classes and how you spot real princes and real bag-ladies.

Anyway, the middle-class has no sense of humor and are slaves to political correctness cuz theyre scared shitless theyll never be upper-class, and may end up homeless. So they dont wanna piss nobody off.

Your sense of humor gives you up as upper-class. Winston Churchill was Lord Marlborough and pulled all kinds of stunts. He once flew in his boxers on a plane full of people; upper class always assume what they do is too kewl for school.

Somewhere on your family tree is nobility.

 

[oggbashan]

While a student my wife worked in a local store during their Christmas sales. The town had a number of significantly wealthy people, a few members of nobility, and some deprived people.

She found it impossible to distinguish the wealthy or noble from the deprived because all were dressed in old well-worn clothing. The middle-class were the best-dressed. The real nobility didn't care what they looked like. If they were gardening and then decided to go shopping they wouldn't change out of their gardening clothes. While the men might have Savile Row suits, they rarely wore them in the small town.

Lord so and so, descended from a long line of noble ancestors, wouldn't object to being addressed by my wife's co-workers as "mate". Sir x, a recently-made political Knight, insisted that he should be called "Sir" on every conceivable occasion.

Og

 

[TheeGoatPig]

"Soylent Green Inc."
"We serve Mankind"

I wonder how many people under the age of 30 even get that joke (or worse yet think it was originally a Futurama quote).

 

[3113]

"Clockwork Orange Psychiatric Center" This morning my cooler was appropriately labeled:

"Soylent Green Inc."
"We serve Mankind"

Needless to say I enjoy playing mind games with my co-workers. I feel it keeps them on their toes.

From other stories you've told, I'm amazed that they even get such jokes. Are you sure they do?--meaning they've actually seen or heard of either movie (or the book in "Clockwork Orange's" case) and are disturbed by getting it? Maybe they're just disturbed that you're making up strange labels? If they're getting the jokes, you should be thankful for having such media-savvy co-workers. Especially if any of them are younger than you.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

While a student my wife worked in a local store during their Christmas sales. The town had a number of significantly wealthy people, a few members of nobility, and some deprived people.

She found it impossible to distinguish the wealthy or noble from the deprived because all were dressed in old well-worn clothing. The middle-class were the best-dressed. The real nobility didn't care what they looked like. If they were gardening and then decided to go shopping they wouldn't change out of their gardening clothes. While the men might have Savile Row suits, they rarely wore them in the small town.

Lord so and so, descended from a long line of noble ancestors, wouldn't object to being addressed by my wife's co-workers as "mate". Sir x, a recently-made political Knight, insisted that he should be called "Sir" on every conceivable occasion.

Og

Exactly. Real upper class know who they are, and whatever they do is right. Just like the bums believe all the stereotypes about them are correct. Only the middle-class gets ulcers.

 

[R. Richard]

Needless to say I enjoy playing mind games with my co-workers. I feel it keeps them on their toes.

Cat

You might be able to effect the same results by simply raising the urinals a bit.

 

[Bebeslut]

"We serve mankind" is similar to an even older phrase: "To serve mankind."
Can anyone remember where that comes from?
Hint: not a movie, per se.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Star Trek

 

[R. Richard]

"We serve mankind" is similar to an even older phrase: "To serve mankind."
Can anyone remember where that comes from?
Hint: not a movie, per se.

I suspect that what you're referring to is, "To Serve Man" a science fiction short story written by Damon Knight. The story was then done as a Twilight Zone episode. "To Serve Man" was discovered to be an alien cookbook.

 

[oggbashan]

"We serve mankind" is similar to an even older phrase: "To serve mankind."
Can anyone remember where that comes from?
Hint: not a movie, per se.

1. It is a precept of the Baha'i faith.

2. It is a precept of the Freemasons.

3. It is one translation of a verse in the Koran.

4. It is one translation of a precept in the New Testament.

5. It is the title of a talk given in 1896 by a vedic guru.

6. It is one of the precepts of the Buddhist faith.

How many more do you want?

Og

 

[Zeb_Carter]

"We serve mankind" is similar to an even older phrase: "To serve mankind."
Can anyone remember where that comes from?
Hint: not a movie, per se.

Twilight Zone or was it Outer Limits?

 

[silverstud66]

Ah yes, perhaps aside from my writing style my frequenting film quotes could give me away...

But allow me to also forewarn anyone 'SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!' :S

Perhaps one day you could have your rear end poking out of a broom cupboard or somesuch, and be heard to audibly say 'Awww man I shot Marvyn in the face!'

 

[Handley_Page]

I'd not heard of Soylent Green until I looked it up.


"We serve Mankind"
Would this be either

Douglas Adams (the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation)

or

Isaac Asimov ?

 

[Weird Harold]

I suspect that what you're referring to is, "To Serve Man" a science fiction short story written by Damon Knight. The story was then done as a Twilight Zone episode. "To Serve Man" was discovered to be an alien cookbook.

"We serve Mankind"
Would this be either

Douglas Adams (the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation)

or

Isaac Asimov ?

R. Richard got it right. Soylent Green's Motto was borrowed from the short story.

 

[JackLuis]

R. Richard got it right. Soylent Green's Motto was borrowed from the short story.

I read Damon Knight's story in Analog, I think, when it came out, then saw the TV program years later and thought, "Wow, someone else reads this stuff!"