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Post by Cläy on Dec 16, 2008 2:07:16 GMT
Christmas. Pah! What is it good for? Lots of snotty nosed kids running around getting presents from this Santa Claus, having loving moments with their families, and laughing. LAUGHING! This world is no place for laughter - you must work, work, WORK until your fingers are raw and your bones ache. And then work some more! ... Get out of here, you rabble-rousers! Scat! Get away! I'll tell your parents about this. Don't you dare throw that snowball... SPLATRight! THAT'S IT!
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Proteus
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Not everything needs a concrete answer.
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Post by Proteus on Dec 16, 2008 2:45:05 GMT
Care to give a donation for the poor, Mr. Scrooge?
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Post by Cläy on Dec 16, 2008 5:49:55 GMT
Do-NATIONS? Surely you jest, Mister Proteus? Why, if I can't reap the benefits of my labours, who will? Why should some good-for-nothing slackers be given some of MY hard earned money? Be off with you! And if I see you around here again I'll give you a right donation up the backside!
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Rhodri
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You spin me right round
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Post by Rhodri on Dec 16, 2008 10:52:11 GMT
Can I have the day off on Christmas sir?
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Post by Kyle on Dec 16, 2008 12:24:26 GMT
Mr Scrooge, I represent the Worker's Union. We have had complaints about the conditions under which you place your employees, which have been described as "horrid", "ghastly", and "downright illegal".
A tribunal hearing has been arranged after the Holiday Season (we at the Union happen to enjoy this time of the year) on January 15, at which time you may plead your case.
In the meantime, works at your office have been temporarily suspended, and you workers given paid leave.
We shall see you in the New Year.
Your Sincerely, Mr Leonard Nigel Ernst Roger (L.N.E.R.) Green-Arrow
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Warrior
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Post by Warrior on Dec 16, 2008 13:12:29 GMT
Uncle Scrooge! Uuh, do you want to come visit me for Christmas dinner?
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Jim Prower
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Now as Sir Handel!
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Post by Jim Prower on Dec 16, 2008 14:20:11 GMT
I'm workin' 40 hours a week and dealing with idiot engineers over break. Do I get a pass?
By the way, Unions kill car companies. Did in Britain, Doing in the US.
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Post by Halstead on Dec 16, 2008 16:11:47 GMT
I love mint humbugs don't you Clay?
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Revolver
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Unhappy moth is unhappy.
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Post by Revolver on Dec 16, 2008 22:51:49 GMT
Sir, you can't expect us to work on Christmas, I've been shoveling coal and driving my steam engine for five straight days! Delivering your products!
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Post by Cläy on Dec 16, 2008 23:21:05 GMT
Rhodri, if I gave you Christmas day off it would only serve to fill your worthless mind with ideas, and hopes, and dreams! I can't have that, you understand. Next thing you'll be wanting 16 hour days instead of 20! Get back to work!
Mister Green-Arrow, if you think union strike will slow me down, you are a sadly mistaken man. I knew something like this would happen - it does EVERY Christmas - so I have taken the liberty of moving the work funds to a new account so that there is no money with which to pay those slackers! If they want money, they WORK for it!
Warrior, I am not your uncle! I have told you this every time you say I am! And I do not wish to join you for Christmas dinner in any event - my desk houses the best bread and water meal this side of the Thames!
Jim Prower, I'm working 160 hours a week and dealing with idiot employees. If I don't get a break, there is no reason you should.
Halstead, I do enjoy mint humbugs, especially the ones from a stall in Heraldshire.
Arlesdale92, if you drove your steam engine faster, maybe you would have been finished by now! Your incompetence is of no concern to me. Now there is a new load of slate to be delivered to York by 6am tomorrow. Go! GO!
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Assassin
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Post by Assassin on Dec 16, 2008 23:28:52 GMT
Here's a present Mr. Scrooge! Merry Christmas!
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Post by Aidan on Dec 16, 2008 23:44:17 GMT
Mr. Scrooge, I am a representative of one of your employees, a Mr. Robert Cratchit, and he asks if he may have an increase in his salary in order for his son Tiny Tim to receive medical attention.
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Richard
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Post by Richard on Dec 17, 2008 0:02:57 GMT
You're not Scrooge you impostor! This is him, and he needs a word with you!
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Jim Prower
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Now as Sir Handel!
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Post by Jim Prower on Dec 17, 2008 0:02:59 GMT
You...are perfect.
I would like to offer you a management position at my company, Mr. Scrooge! We'll pay you twice what you're getting now! You'll fit right in at Human Resources, where we can use your ability to crush souls and make people work like rented mules company-wide! I just hope you aren't allergic to cats.
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Anime Boy
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Post by Anime Boy on Dec 17, 2008 0:09:05 GMT
Mr. Scrooge, I'm here to inform you that you will be receiving a visit from your former partner Jacob Marley. He will be arriving at your house quite late tonight. But I must warn you, he might appear in a way you will find frightening.
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Post by FlyingScotsman on Dec 17, 2008 0:23:05 GMT
Mr Scrooge, I'm that exorcist you ordered. Holy water round the bed, did you say? Crucifixes over the door? That'll learn them spectres for sure.
Afraid we still haven't sorted the mystery of that business when Marley told you to expect a ghost per night starting on Christmas Eve, yet the morning following the third night was Christmas Day. We tried to speak to Mister Dickens, but he don't say much on account of how he is "partaking of Glory".
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Post by Father Austin Purcell on Dec 17, 2008 17:51:47 GMT
Mr. Scrooge,
I represent the Lord Protector's office. Both he and the Rump Parliament like the cut of your jib, and Mister Cromwell has therefore asked me to offer you the post of Major-General of this region and a salary of fifteen thousand guineas per annum if you continue your anti-Festive work. Should you accept, you will commence work on the twentieth of this month and report directly to me.
Yours Puritanically,
Colonel Fight-The-Good-Fight-Of-Faith LNER New Model Army - Yuletide Eradication Squad
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Revolver
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Unhappy moth is unhappy.
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Post by Revolver on Dec 17, 2008 22:14:31 GMT
Mr. Scrooge, I can't keep this up, the Black-5 broke down. Can't I have ten minutes to rest sir, at least until a new engine is sent, please?
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Rhodri
Goods Engine
You spin me right round
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Post by Rhodri on Dec 18, 2008 0:17:35 GMT
Sorry Arlesdale, but Mr Scrooge sent me to provide you with a replacement engine. Don't ask me how, but he managed to borrow the Peppercorn A1, Tornado.
He has orders for you to deliver the accompanying load of Sooty and Sweep merchandise to Fishguard Harbour Railway station in west Wales and accompany it along its road journey to St David's, followed by its rubber dingy trip to Ramsey Island...and there is a gale force 5 warning being issued for the area. Once you've done that you have to get back to Tornado and head to Sellafield Nuclear Power Station in Cumbria and take a load of radioactive material in uncovered coal wagons back to London and dump it on the door of Ryan Acrosstherode's office.
Now that's done, I have to walk back to London and finish my 24 shift and 6 hours overtime.
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Post by Cläy on Dec 18, 2008 1:26:01 GMT
Mister Rool, I have one thing to say to you. Humph!
Aidan, do you think I have any sympathy at all for Cratchit? If the man had any sense whatsoever he would have prevented his son from being sick in the first place! He'll get an increase in salary only if I get an increase in work hours and productivity, and a decrease in meaningless requests like this!
Skarloey123, I would also like to have a word with you. And that word is: LIAR!
Pointy Haired Boss, this... is an interesting offer. I would be lying if I said I wasn't intrigued. I will get back to you. Incidentally, I hear tell of one of your employees, Wally, being even less effective than my current schlubs. If I accept, fire him. Or kill him. One or the other.
Anime Boy, tonight is not Halloween, and you know it! If Marley comes areound here looking for that severance package I offered him, I'll give him a right severance - head from body!
Ah yes, Mister Scotsman, do come in. I was expecting you sooner, but I expect this must be a busy time for you, with all these ghosts coming down from the Good Lord's Heaven to be with their families! They have work to do with good, honest HAUNTING!
Oliver Cromwell himself! Goodness me, this IS an honour. I am very much humbled by this offer to spread the correct attitude. Now get my servant to me! What are you still here for, pointy hair? Rack off! I have a better offer now.
Rhodri, what have I told you about berating fellow employees? That's MY job! And hurry up! Why walk when you can run? As for the Tornado, I have contacts. Contacts you could only dream of having! And, AND, Rhodri, you forgot to tell Arlesdale92 about the delivery to Antwerp! You cannot be trusted with this sort of information! Finish your 12 hours overtime and then see me.
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