Re: Re: OT: "Gissa a Job!" & Location

[Stuart Grimshaw <stuart@xxxxxxx>]

A nameless friend of mine once wrote a covering letter along these lines:

"I want to work for you because you will pay me more money & I
hope treat me
better than my current employer"

"With more money my girlfriend will move in with me & I'll be able
to have
more sex"

:-)

On Friday 19 October 2001 13:50 pm, Steve Cooper wrote:
> Indeed, until someone can tell me how answering
>
> "Macbeth was a brave and noble man - discuss"
>
> has in anyway enhanced my life.  I'm in agreement.
>
> S
>
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>                     "Mark McCall"
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Re:
> OT: "Gissa a Job!" & Location 19/10/01 13:45
>                     Please respond
>                     to ukha_d
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> I'm  with you Keith! :-)
>
> I  remember and O'Level essay title we were given....
>
> "Does  Thomas Hardy rely too heavily on coincidence to further
the plot of
> The  Woodlanders?"
>
> Well...my answer was "YES"....but they wanted 2000  words!
>
> :)
>
> M.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Doxey  [mailto:ukha@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 19 October 2001 13:03
> To:  ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: OT: "Gissa a Job!"  & Location
>
>
> I was absolute crap at  english...
>
> >an indefinite possessive!
>
> ...what the hell does  that mean?
>
> does that mean you lent something to someone and they are  keeping it
> for an unknown period of time!
>
> The vast majority of what  they "tried" to teach us in
English has
> been of no use whatsoever. For all  my book reviews I read and
> reported on several well written books from the  school library. The
> books concerned had titles such as "Tape Recording and 
Hifi" "Stage
> Lighting" etc. I learnt a great deal from those books which  has
> proved extremely useful during my working life.
>
> Needless to  say, whan I took my CSE English exam and they were asking
> questions on the  Shakespere books I was supposed to have read and
> reveiwed, I failed badly  (Grade 4 CSE). Having said that, I believe
> it to be the ONLY time in my 41  years existance that any knowledge of
> Shakespere would have been any use  whatsoever.
>
> The same applies to what we learnt in Geography and  History. By the
> time History was dropped because I couldnt fit it in with  my CSE's we
> had just about got as far as the Industrial Revolution. (Why  not
> start with the most recent events and work backwards). Most of the
> countries we learnt about in Geography dont exist anymore but we
> never  learnt where all the counties that make up the UK are.
>
> I appreciate  that you need to have a way of quickly shortlisting CV's
> but you could  easily miss someone who could be the best
> programmer/engineer that you  could ever employ.
>
> One thing I have noticed is that people who are  technically minded
> and highly skilled could easily forge a prescription as  their
> handwriting is often as bad or worse than a doctors. Why do you  think
> we type all the time. I very rarely write things down because I cant
> read them afterwards!
>
> OK so thee are spell checkers and such like,  but using Word is a
> nightmare. Most of the word processing I do is of a  technical nature
> and almost everything is underlined in red. Often chunks  of text are
> underlined in green indicating it is gramatically incorrect.  Word
> cannot indicate how I should correct it. If it doesnt know what is
> right, how does it know that what I have typed is wrong???
>
> I feel  better now :-)
>
> Keith
>
> PS. My English isnt much better now....but  my gibberish has improved
> a lot.
>
>
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