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mouseman
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« Reply #15 on: August 19, 2010, 06:54:28 PM »

"This is your first C?  Well, they always say that the first one is special."

"Oh, you got A's for all the rest of your courses?  Let me guess, you got a C, a D, and a couple of F's"

In response to the complaint "but if I get a C, I won't get into Medical School!":  "than humanity owes me a debt of gratitude".
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« Reply #16 on: August 19, 2010, 07:05:22 PM »

Congratulations on your appointment as Vice President of Whatever.
Do you realize how many professors we didn't replace this year so you could have your swanky new title and salary?
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frogfactory
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« Reply #17 on: August 19, 2010, 07:16:35 PM »

No, for the last time, this track is not from a movie soundtrack.  You realise you've asked me that about every single piece I've played on the stereo that was written before 1850?
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« Reply #18 on: August 19, 2010, 07:23:26 PM »

Get the hell out of my office. Now!
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« Reply #19 on: August 19, 2010, 08:34:44 PM »

"I quite pity you, Mr. SSOB-man, You see, ignorance can be mitigated with education, but stupidity is a terminal disease."
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london1
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« Reply #20 on: August 19, 2010, 08:37:43 PM »

Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
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« Reply #21 on: August 19, 2010, 08:51:55 PM »

You mean well, but you are the second worst administrator I have seen in my life. 
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« Reply #22 on: August 19, 2010, 08:53:57 PM »

You are full of sh!t and smell bad too.
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« Reply #23 on: August 19, 2010, 08:58:19 PM »

You mean well, but you are the second worst administrator I have seen in my life. 

What would you say to the one who got first place?
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« Reply #24 on: August 19, 2010, 09:15:22 PM »

"No, I don't want to have the meeting at your house. I always leave full of cat hair."
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« Reply #25 on: August 20, 2010, 02:59:03 PM »

but cat hair IS the new 'pink'.
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« Reply #26 on: August 20, 2010, 03:15:10 PM »

I'm really sorry that I reinforced your anger when I should have been thinking of ways to defuse it.
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« Reply #27 on: August 20, 2010, 03:20:38 PM »

I'm really sorry that I reinforced your anger when I should have been thinking of ways to defuse it.

Can I rephrase slightly in the context of a particularly difficult colleague?

I'm really sorry that I reinforced your anger when you expected me to defuse it by apologizing unreservedly for a matter not of my making.
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chaosbydesign
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« Reply #28 on: August 20, 2010, 04:17:40 PM »

Attempting to turn your vicious comments into a 'joke' does not make your behaviour any less objectionable.

Bite me, you asinine amoeba.
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Seriously, I tried to lick my own face.

Ah. Typical ivory tower pedanticalness.
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« Reply #29 on: August 20, 2010, 04:50:20 PM »

Do you actually think I find it cool when you say things like "You know I don't read"? Do you remember what it is that I do?
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