Happy 10th anniversary (to me)

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Archangel replied

31 January 2008, 10:37
Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post

On 1st Oct I "celebrate" 20 years as a contractor...

Hey Brillo, you are me and I claim my £5!

I also started contracting on 1/10/1988 (at ICI Blackley)

Not had a day out of contract since. (tempting fate)
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bogeyman replied

30 January 2008, 16:23
Originally posted by PAH View Post

I'm saving myself for the inevitable excursion into prison for tax evasion. Though with my luck they'll actually be like a prison when I get there. No internet porn, no TV, no pizza deliveries.

And all because I said I was commuting up and down the country every weekend, claiming travel expenses, when in reality I was holed up in a brothel at the weekends with a brass called Mildred. By George I've screwed up.

Ha ha! Clever that!

There seems to be an intelligence of some sort lurking in PAH. But I can't quite put my finger on it.

Not as stupid a kvnt as he makes out, that one.

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bogeyman replied

30 January 2008, 16:21
Originally posted by Churchill View Post

Bogeyman is Captain Jack and I certainly don't want to claim my free hand-job!

I don't do doggie
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PAH replied

30 January 2008, 16:10
Originally posted by bogeyman View Post

Hey buddy! I'll wipe it for you - and give you some special man love too.

How does that sound

I'm saving myself for the inevitable excursion into prison for tax evasion. Though with my luck they'll actually be like a prison when I get there. No internet porn, no TV, no pizza deliveries.

And all because I said I was commuting up and down the country every weekend, claiming travel expenses, when in reality I was holed up in a brothel at the weekends with a brass called Mildred. By George I've screwed up.
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Churchill replied

30 January 2008, 16:06
Originally posted by bogeyman View Post

Hey buddy! I'll wipe it for you - and give you some special man love too.

How does that sound

Bogeyman is Captain Jack and I certainly don't want to claim my free hand-job!
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bogeyman replied

30 January 2008, 15:58
Originally posted by PAH View Post

Nearly 10 years for me too.

Shows how dumb I am, I've barely got a pot to piss in. They say live for today, but who's going to wipe my arse tomorrow when I'm old and decrepit!?

May have to outsource it.

Hey buddy! I'll wipe it for you - and give you some special man love too.

How does that sound
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PAH replied

30 January 2008, 15:57
Originally posted by bogeyman View Post

There have been fat times and lean times, but I would never go back. Once you are your own boss, you can't go back.

I know exactly what you mean. It's sort of like is it better to have loved and lost or to have never loved at all. Sometimes wish I'd never escaped permiedom, and stayed blissfully unaware of the other options. It's much harder to do it on your own when you're a lazy sod like me, but I'm now so independent I could be classed a loner, whereas most bosses I meet I class a tosser.

Suprised you've managed to drag out those COBOL skills for so long.
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PAH replied

30 January 2008, 15:52
Nearly 10 years for me too.

Shows how dumb I am, I've barely got a pot to piss in. They say live for today, but who's going to wipe my arse tomorrow when I'm old and decrepit!?

May have to outsource it.
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tim123 replied

30 January 2008, 15:06
Originally posted by bobhope View Post

It's my 10 years of contracting anniversary (this weekend)

On this fateful day in 1998 I bid farewell to permieland, partly thanks to Y2K but mainly thanks to the .com boom.

Anyone else having a contract anniversary this year?

Yeah. I have one every year. Who doesn't?

(I'll be 24 years in July).

tim
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bogeyman replied

30 January 2008, 14:35
Originally posted by bobhope View Post

It's my 10 years of contracting anniversary (this weekend)

On this fateful day in 1998 I bid farewell to permieland, partly thanks to Y2K but mainly thanks to the .com boom.

Anyone else having a contract anniversary this year?

Good on yer mate

Getting close to 20 years for me. There have been fat times and lean times, but I would never go back. Once you are your own boss, you can't go back.

Respect and good luck mate
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BrilloPad replied

30 January 2008, 14:30
Originally posted by bobhope View Post

It's my 10 years of contracting anniversary (this weekend)

On this fateful day in 1998 I bid farewell to permieland, partly thanks to Y2K but mainly thanks to the .com boom.

Anyone else having a contract anniversary this year?

On 1st Oct I "celebrate" 20 years as a contractor...
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oracleslave replied

30 January 2008, 14:19
Originally posted by bobhope View Post

It's my 10 years of contracting anniversary (this weekend)

On this fateful day in 1998 I bid farewell to permieland, partly thanks to Y2K but mainly thanks to the .com boom.

Anyone else having a contract anniversary this year?

Congrats

Only 5 years for me.
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bobhope started a topic Happy 10th anniversary (to me)

30 January 2008, 14:17
Happy 10th anniversary (to me)

It's my 10 years of contracting anniversary (this weekend)

On this fateful day in 1998 I bid farewell to permieland, partly thanks to Y2K but mainly thanks to the .com boom.

Anyone else having a contract anniversary this year?
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