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    #31
    Originally posted by Marina View Post
    Be a dear and go and make the tea Churchill, and leave the thinking to us girls

    Piano tuners are *far* more likely than the average person to be blind.

    What is the population of NY?

    What percentage of them own pianos?

    How many other pianos are there in NY schools, clubs, and restaurants etc?

    How often does the average piano need tuning?

    How many pianos can a tuner do a year?

    What percentage of piano tuners are blind?
    Yup, you can use that one as well.

    Kettle's on but someone else will have to pour, I'm off t'pub.

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      #32
      I know someone who liked asking "if you were an animal, which animal would you be?" - to this day I don't know what he was trying to ascertain by asking it.
      "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "


      Thomas Jefferson

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        #33
        Originally posted by Ruprect View Post
        I know someone who liked asking "if you were an animal, which animal would you be?" - to this day I don't know what he was trying to ascertain by asking it.
        Oh yes - I know the best answer to that one - Sloth innit?

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          #34
          If you were a colour what colour would you be. And why (twunts)

          If I went for a drink with your best friend what 5 good things would they say about you. And then 5 bad things. Repeat for saying about yourself.

          I have, on occasion, called a halt to interviews with questions like that.

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            #35
            Originally posted by Epiphone View Post
            If you were a colour what colour would you be. And why (twunts)

            If I went for a drink with your best friend what 5 good things would they say about you. And then 5 bad things. Repeat for saying about yourself.

            I have, on occasion, called a halt to interviews with questions like that.
            not surprised - only the interviewer should be asking those kind of questions.

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              #36
              I once was asked if I smoked and got the job because I did back then - that was the technical question!
              Rule Number 1 - Assuming that you have a valid contract in place always try to get your poo onto your timesheet, provided that the timesheet is valid for your current contract and covers the period of time that you are billing for.

              I preferred version 1!

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                #37
                Just in case anybody is wondering about the best way to answer the piano tuners thing...

                The National Association of Blind Piano Technicians have a mailing list - perhaps try asking there?

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                  #38
                  Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
                  Just in case anybody is wondering about the best way to answer the piano tuners thing...

                  The National Association of Blind Piano Technicians have a mailing list - perhaps try asking there?
                  Thanks Nick. Was up half the night with worry

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                    #39
                    Originally posted by oracleslave View Post
                    Thanks Nick. Was up half the night with worry
                    HTH

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                      #40
                      "What type of "Animal" are you".

                      I tried to avoid answering

                      tim
                      Last edited by tim123; 7 June 2008, 12:34.

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