Performance Appraisals

I'm left handed too. I was outraged when my first-grade teacher tried to switch me to righty, and my rage didn't help matters. I started writing right to left, then with "coaching" left to right but with reversed letters, then alternating lines or switching to mirrored letters in the middle of a line or .... I thought I was doing it on purpose, but not really. When she finally relented and let me use my left hand. I was still reversing things inadvertently for another two weeks.

I apparently scored a great victory for humanity. I learned years later that I was the last student she tried to switch. I'm only a bit dyslexic (which I didn't realize at the time) but too poorly coordinated to be any good at sports or play a musical instrument with rewarding facility.

Jerry

ROFLMAO!

Quite sure, in this case. Americans, you know, if they meant that, it would have been a WHOLE different word!

They didn't say that till later, after they knew me... ;-)

Charlie

No.

If they can't even "be arsed" to get their frickin' _RESUME_ right, they've already shown themselves to be useless.

Thanks, Rich

"You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!"

Cheers! Rich

I'd have thought that a "WOOD GATE" would be more like a "GATE of WOOD".

;-)

Cheers! Rich

...

Over an intercom at Annapolis: "Now hear this! Now hear this! For this afternoon's inspection, men will wear dress white hats. That is all!"

Jerry

Actually the brain doesn't so much recognize as eliminate. There are enough clues in each word so that your brain can eliminate every word except the correct one.

Hmm were string theorists in on that ad, you think? Nine dimensional volume must be something to behold...

Tim

And lawyers get to bill 180!

No, I'd been living here for ten years when I got around to taking the test - at one point it looked as if I might be able to do the computer science course at the local university for not-unreasonalbe fees if I demonstrated that I had mastered Dutch, which is what NT2 II (Dutch as a Second language option 2) is all about, but by the time I'd jumped through the hoops they'd changed the rules and the fees were back up to

Even in the Netherlands it is getting difficult - I've got an obvious English accent, and many people will reply to my Dutch in English, just to exercise their English.

At least SOMETHING productive happened during your meeting. ;-)

I worked seven months of 112 hours per week, and got paid for 148 hours (16 hours/day with time and a half for anything over 40 hours) except for Christmas Day and New Years Day when I got paid an extra 16 hours per day. On top of that, my boss was bitching that I should be willing to work even more hours.

In message , dated Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Joel Kolstad writes

.... because someone didn't foresee that happening and fixed the project down.

In message , dated Sat,

The Inquisition was a church court, so it consisted of one or more bishops, canons, priests and deacons. I wouldn't want to be any of them.

'Gate of the wood', indicating the place where the original Woodgate lived, is probably the correct derivation.

In message , dated Sat,

That's another Kipling poem worth reading, indeed.

Hahaha, that's a good one ;)

You know it is bad when this is the case and you ARE the boss.

Do I hear a suppressed sigh?

Jerry

Hello Bill,

The Dutch typically speak 3-4 languages so I had the same problem. Then I told all the people I see the most to respond in Dutch and not make it easy for me. Folks in the pubs, the merchants, the vendors at the market. That did it.

Problem was, my Dutch wasn't what they speak in the north or in the big cities. I lived in Zuid Limburg and had been a member of a Belgian sports club. To make matters worse, some of the folks I learned from were born in the former Dutch colonies and they had a really thick accent. In the north they'd barely understand us unless we slowed down. What really amazed me was when we listened to the Belgian comedian Urbanus. We rolled on the floor laughing and the northerners wouldn't have a clue what his jokes were all about.

English was a similar matter, one teacher from Kentucky, the other from Louisiana.