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Old 11-03-2009, 11:59 AM
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I haven't been up to verify it myself as yet, but there is a rumor that there is a new face at Peter's desk, one that hasn't been seen in New Britain for decades. If anyone is making a vist to the ERA werks, let's get a picture! After all, we ought to know who we're dealing with up there...

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Folks:

I haven't been up to verify it myself as yet, but there is a rumor that there is a new face at Peter's desk, one that hasn't been seen in New Britain for decades. If anyone is making a vist to the ERA werks, let's get a picture! After all, we ought to know who we're dealing with up there...

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Good luck getting a picture; he is harder to get on film than Sasquatch...
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I haven't been up to verify it myself as yet, but there is a rumor that there is a new face at Peter's desk...
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Old 11-03-2009, 12:29 PM
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Supposedly looks like a short Mel Brooks...
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Supposedly looks like a short Mel Brooks...
Mel Brooks is 5'5" -- how much shorter can you get?
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5' 5"? Sounds about right...
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Mel Brooks is 5'5" -- how much shorter can you get?
Now's about the time where you post that lovely picture of the little awful looking smallish type guy who seems to be exiting a Grateful Dead concert or whatever.
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Now's about the time where you post that lovely picture of the little awful looking smallish type guy who seems to be exiting a Grateful Dead concert or whatever.
But for the fact that I could be mocking an owner of the company that built my car, provides me with advice on fixing it, answers the phone when I call, and sends me parts for it, I would have posted that pic in a heartbeat.
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Anybody recognize this guy? It appears that he even knows how to work a computer. The old guy didn't know how to do that.
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When was that picture taken? The 1990's? Look at the size of that monitor!
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Anybody recognize this guy? It appears that he even knows how to work a computer. The old guy didn't know how to do that.
Jeez, he does look like Mel Brooks.
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Jim,
Is this a quaint way of saying that Peter's retiring/retired?
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He's still got the asylum tag on his right wrist-he'll fit right in.
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Now I have an excuse to call up and say hi, never really needed one, but this is too good an opportunity to pass by

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No, only the mustache has, at long last, retired... thankfully.

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