512,000 ounces
typed for your pleasure on 25 April 2008, at 11.34 amSdtrk: ‘Old man’ by Andrew WK
from the ‘Work is a four-letter word’ Files:
MRS BESMERTNIK: [I can’t turn my donation in,] I’m just getting deeper and deeper in debt. Do you remember that song?
ME: Yes! ‘Another day older and deeper in debt / St Peter don’t you call me cos I can’t go / I owe my soul to the company store.’ Tennessee Ernie Ford, ‘Sixteen Tons’.
MRS BESMERTNIK: That’s me, that’s where I’m at. So yes, you’re…
ME (interrupting): ‘One fist of iron, the other of steel / If the right one don’t getcha then the left one will’! Actually, thanks for bringing that up, I have to see if I can hunt down a copy of that for my .mp3 player! Great song.
MRS BESMERTNIK: You should! That’s a good song! But that’s like how I am, I can’t go until I’ve paid my debts…
ME (interrupting): Have you got one fist of iron, the other of steel?
MRS BESMERTNIK: Well, I don’t know about all that…
ME: Perhaps you should look into that, that’d be pretty impressive.
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April 25th, 2008 at 1.08 pm
Ok. You seriously crack me up!
April 26th, 2008 at 2.28 pm
Since she was saying ‘Oh, that’s me, that’s where I’m at,’ I thought that she was perhaps a genetically-engineered super soldier with metal fists. Maybe she just didn’t want to show off. 🙂
April 26th, 2008 at 2.31 pm
The great thing is, I actually believe you told her this. That would be interesting to have an Iron fist, could make sex a whole new Industrial experience. Or a total Tetsuo sewer screw sex scene, meh..
April 26th, 2008 at 4.07 pm
O yeah! I actually did say that! All these dumb conversations that I have with clients are 100% true; only the names were changed yadda yadda yadda. Seriously, I have to do something to keep myself awake! Usually, it doesn’t help.
And Tetsuo certainly was all about the metal screws. 🙂
‘Look, she has a metal hand’
— from a scene in ‘Repo man’
April 29th, 2008 at 6.19 am
I think it would be alright to have a steel fist, but that iron fist is ferrous and would be pretty embarrassing around magnets of all sorts.
April 30th, 2008 at 12.51 am
Either way, a person so endowed could never wash their hands (for fear of rust), or pet a bunny. Truly, a bleak existence.
May 1st, 2008 at 1.02 pm
STAINLESS steel would be soap-safe after a fashion.
And while you could not pet a bunny you would be ideally suited to pummeling one.