| Subject: |
How many Romans to screw in a lightbulb? |
| From: |
Bob
the Lethargic @ mars.vtlcom.com |
| Date: |
2:02 p.m. 2/5/99 |
| It takes 27 Romans and one software
engineer to screw in a lightbulb.
a. One market trader to ask who needs a lightbulb
b. One sailor or donkey rider to import the lightbulb since your
city doesn't make lightbulbs
c. One warehouse worker to store the lightbulb till a market buyer
shows up
d. Two market buyers - one to get the lightbulb from the warehouse
and the other to feed the starving people being ignored by the
now lost first market buyer
e. Two prefects - one to find the lost market buyer and the other
to put out the fires the first prefect is ignoring
f. One engineer to keep up the dock, warehouse, markets and prefectures
and to screw in the lightbulb when the market lady finally gets
unlost
g. One farmer and one grainery worker making the food to feed
all these people involved with getting the lightbulb
h. And finally, one barracks worker recruiting the 16 soldiers
needed to fight the hordes of barbarians attacking the city trying
to steal that one damned lightbulb.
Almost forgot, you also need Proconsul Conan@Impressions to explain
to everybody why the market ladies and prefects are not working
right. :)
"Hey you guys in the towers!! I'm not paying you $35 a year to
sit on your butts. Help the market ladies find a grainery."
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In Reply to: How many Romans to screw
in a lightbulb? posted by Bob the Lethargic on 2:02 p.m. 2/5/99:
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Let me join this :-)
It's good for only 27, In badluckkum city, when that engineer
start screwing in the lightbulb he request for 150 workers to
entertain him with a race in hippodrome!
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| Subject: |
Re: How many Romans to screw in
a lightbulb? |
| From: |
Proconsul
Conan @ Impressions |
| Date: |
12:37 p.m. 2/9/99 |
| : Like the powers that be would actually
give an engineer what they wanted.
Engineer: "Gee, I sure would like to see a Chariot Race before
I install this lightbulb."
Governor: "What?!" {full wine goblet is hurled at hapless engineer}
"I don't think so. You don't need entertainment. You will live
in your waterless, foodless tent in the dock district and like
it. Install that lightbulb before I send a prefect to burn your
little tent to the ground. Now where is that public works presentation
I told you to prepare for my trip to Rome? Don't forget to wax
my chariot this time. Ingrate."
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| Subject: |
You get a tent? |
| From: |
Bob
the Lethargic @ mars.vtlcom.com |
| Date: |
2:12 p.m. 2/9/99 |
| What's this? Caesar gives you your
own tent?
I thought engineers were doomed to spending all their time in
a canvas walled cubicle dreading Caesar's call to a weekly forum
meeting where he drones on about why the work has to be done next
week. No matter that four weeks time is actually needed to get
the work done. Marketing wants to sell the work during the Bachus
Festival time-frame.
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| Subject: | Re: You get a tent? |
| From: |
bill
@ 206.244.90.7 |
| Date: | 1:10 p.m. 2/13/99 |
Romans can't install light bulbs.
Just about the time your people are all working together, that case
of wine shows up to make non-working patricians out of them, or
Caesar decides that your next tribute is going to be light bulbs.
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