Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Lots of Time on My Hands

Tester #1: Halt! Who goes there?
PM: It is I, PM, Project Manager of ClientCompany, from the castle of SoftwareDepartment. Project Manager of ClientCompanyians, coordinator with DevelopmentCompany, sovereign of all ParentCompany!
Tester #1: Pull the other one!
PM: I am,... and this is my trusty servant “Bob”. We have searched the length and breadth of the land in search of testers who will join me in my company at SoftwareDepartment. I must speak with your President and CEO.
Tester #1: What? Searched on the Internet?
PM: Yes!
Tester #1: You're using shoddy code!
PM: What?
Tester #1: You've got two empty halves of shoddy code and you're bangin' 'em together.
PM: So? We have searched since the snows of winter covered this land, through the kingdom of Provo, through--
Tester #1: Where'd you get the shoddy code?
PM: We found it.
Tester #1: Found it? In Provo? The shoddy code's tropical!
PM: What do you mean?
Tester #1: Well, this is a temperate zone.
PM: The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land?
Tester #1: Are you suggesting shoddy code migrates?
PM: Not at all. It could be carried.
Tester #1: What? A swallow carrying a shoddy code?
PM: It could grip it by the husk!
Tester #1: It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a simple question of weight ratios! A five ounce bird could not carry one pound of shoddy code.
PM: Well, it doesn't matter. Will you go and tell your CEO that PM from the Company of SoftwareDepartment is here.
Tester #1: Listen. In order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings forty-three times every second, right?
PM: Please!
Tester #1: Am I right?
PM: I'm not interested!
Tester #2: It could be carried by an Indian swallow!
Tester #1: Oh, yeah, an Indian swallow maybe, but not an American swallow. That's my point.
Tester #2: Oh, yeah, I agree with that.
PM: Will you ask your president if he wants to join my company at SoftwareDepartment?!
Tester #1: But then of course a-- Indian swallows are non-migratory.
Tester #2: Oh, yeah...
Tester #1: So they couldn't bring shoddy code back anyway...
[clop clop clop]
Tester #2: Wait a minute! Supposing sixty swallows carried it together?
Tester #1: No, they'd have to have it on a line.
Tester #2: Well, simple! They'd just use a strand of CAT V!
Tester #1: What, held under the dorsal guiding feathers?
Tester #2: Well, why not?

With Apologies to Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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