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Great idea! Get them started early because they are likely to have a lifetime of that nonsense to endure.
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Now looking forward to attending meetings barefoot.
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During a heat wave, one of my collagues came to work wearing nothing but a T-shirt and swimming briefs, speedo type. He even left his wrist watch at home.
Our boss sent him a note, telling that "It is marginally acceptable to come to work in T-shirt and speedos only. It is not acceptable to come to work in a T-shirt so long that there can be doubts whether you are wearing speedos or not."
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Fired. Or perhaps sacked. Probably has happened to most of us one time or another. Now I have read that the Romans literally sacked people as a form of punishment and execution (Poena cullei - Wikipedia[^]). Now I wonder. Does getting sacked really go back to this nice custom?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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No, it's 19th Century apparently: Google dictionary "Sacked"[^]
And I found this:Quote: Before the Industrial Revolution in Europe and the age of mass employment, people who needed work done and had the means to pay someone else to do it would hire workers with the skills to do specific jobs. These workers would carry the tools they needed for the job in a sack or in a bag made out of sacking. When the job was complete or when the employer no longer had any need for the services of a particular worker, he would hand him his sack. The worker would gather his tools together and put them in his sack and leave to find work elsewhere. Getting one’s sack back came to be associated with one’s services no longer being needed or being surplus to requirements. It has now passed into modern usage as an informal way of saying ‘to be dismissed’.
The origins of being Sacked, Fired & Laid Off - Adrian Fisher Ltd[^]
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Don't think so. The verb getting sacked, as in terminated from employment has etymological roots in Old English, but it is an interesting find.
I am not the one who knocks. I never knock.
In fact, I hate knocking.
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It originated from the early 1800's because of the feeling you got when you were fired. People described it as feeling like you were kicked in the nut sack.
The intensity of the feeling was more pronounced the more years you had been loyal to your employer.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: more pronounced the more years you had been loyal to your employer
Ye gods. My two best friends are going to be sent into low Earth orbit, since I've been at my current job 28 years in October  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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And it gets even more intense when they try everything to make you want to leave or dig out anything that could possibly serve as justification, just to get off a little cheaper. I remember working in a place where they tried over a year to get under my thick hide. Simply firing me would have been easier and cheaper for them.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Here we are, LOLL! (6)
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Dunno, louder?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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megaadam wrote: Dunno, louder?
HERE WE ARE, LOLL! (6)
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Beat me to it! 
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Thank you, kind Sir!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Nope!
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Yeah I got it, but you know I don't play.
I think people will be amused when you tell them the answer later on... well, either amused or lots of groaning!
EDIT: Never mind, looks like pkfox has it now (or at least has the same answer I think it is)
modified 5-Jul-18 5:38am.
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It was indeed - and it lasted longer than I thought. Perhaps they all assumed I mispelled "LOL" - I hoped they might.
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Well that's how I got it. I see people use LOLL as an alternative to LOL quite often and I always assumed it didn't really mean anything other than people just putting an extra L for emphasis! (which I now still believe). But after you used it I thought maybe it does actually stand for something specific, so I googled it...
I still didn't get it at first but just as I was about to give up and close my Google results I spotted the word "lounge", and it all made sense... LOLL
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That was the plan - I liked that one!
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Lounge ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Is the correct answer, and should need no explanation! 
You are up tomorrow!
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OriginalGriff wrote: and should need no explanation!
Okay, I'm obviously being monumentally dumb here, but I'm just not seeing it.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Loll as in lolling about is a synonym of lounge.
Here we are - well, that's exactly where we are.
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God! I'm an eejit!
Thanks.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Gotcha!
:DoesAFistPumpThatYouCan'tSee:
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