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    #41
    Originally posted by threaded View Post
    I had a spell checker alter CORBA to COBRA and then an agent took that section from my CV and used it for a fake job advert on Jobserve.

    Oh, how you all laughed.

    So did I until, WTF, that's a bit from my CV...

    Ah yes, Threaded's CV, the cause of much merriment...

    I believe it's where Hans Christian Andersen got most of his inspiration.

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      #42
      Originally posted by Churchill View Post
      I believe it's where Hans Christian Andersen got most of his inspiration.
      I think that's somewhere on page 15.
      Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
      threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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        #43
        Originally posted by Churchill View Post
        I believe it's where Hans Christian Andersen got most of his inspiration.
        Oh, I forget, it's actually in the fourth paragraph of the introduction letter too.

        It always gets mentioned at interviews, well, by Danish interviewers anyway.

        Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
        threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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          #44
          And on that subject, HC Andersen, I was reading his job application to work at Copenhagen Library a few weeks ago...

          "I would like fixed employment in the civil service as I am fed up with working for a living."
          Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
          threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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