jlf1961
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ORIGINAL: WhoreMods
Don't worry, I've seen it, I just couldn't resist the crack about gin. (Even if I'm not drinking enough of it to keep an invisible Welsh marsh spirit who can change the text in dictionaries happy.)
Whoremods, you never cease to amaze me.
Most of the people I know can google the hint I put in the thread and still have no clue what I am talking about.
Funny thing is that I worked at a Nuclear Power/Research facility in security, and a few of us used Harvey as the guy to blame everything on, including the times we were mumbling to ourselves about crap that we had to put up with.
There was one time the on site for the Nuclear Regulatory Agency over heard me talking to myself.
He asked who I was talking to, I replied "Harvey."
His next statement was, "It did not look like you were using your radio."
I could not resist, and responded, "He is standing right there" and pointed to a clearly empty spot near a tree.
I even continued the ruse of holding a conversation with 'Harvey' while in this government idiot's presence while walking back to the security control center.
He followed me, shaking his head, and was reaching for the phone to make a call when he noticed the VHS case for the movie on the desk next to the VCR and TV we had.
If you know the cover art for that movie, you know there is a pic of Jimmy Stewart talking to Harvey who is only represented by his shadow.
The next day I worked I had a message to call the regional director for the security firm I worked for and was told, in no uncertain terms, "If you value your job, you will not rattle the chain of those people responsible for us having that contract, no matter how many stupid, lame brained directives they come up with."
That was on the record.
Off the record I was asked if there was security video of the entire incident. When I answered that there was, complete with audio, I was told to make a copy and send it at company expense to his office FED EX over night.
I found out a few weeks later that video eventually made it to the home office, and had everyone in the board room laughing their asses off.
As for this particular guy's security directives, here is the one example that was really the dirtiest.
The facility was having some new research labs built, which made it necessary for there to be portable toilets at the construction site.
Every time a truck came on the site to clean those portable toilets, when they left, we had to climb up on the truck, open the tank, and put a Geiger counter probe into the contents to insure no nuclear material was leaving the site.
On the surface this might sound reasonable except for one very important point.
The construction was no where near any part of the site where nuclear material was stored, tested, used or otherwise accessible, and most importantly, the security control center was also the only way in to or out of that area where nuclear material was accessible.
In other words, for it to be in the contents of those portable toilets, they had to pass through my check point and then travel four miles to get there.
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