InstantForum.NET v2.9.0SQLServerCentralhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/notifications@sqlservercentral.comSat, 25 May 2013 01:31:12 GMT20http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspxThis was intended as a parody of how some DBA's take themselves way too seriously and just to laugh at ourseleves. But in answer to some queries.1. My inspiration is obviously the film a few good men. after watching the film I youtubed Jacks speech where various Industries are humorously covered but none for DBAs.http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=a+few+good+men+&search_type=&aq=f2. This is where I lifted the text of Jacks speech from to edit for my piece, suprise suprise it starts and ends on exactly the same lines as mine what are the chances of that happening :) http://www.whysanity.net/monos/fewgood.html3. Steve actually came up with the title but what else would you name it if you are a DBA.4. My piece is intended as humorous irony not a serious piece of literature and most people have taken it that way, trust me its not winning any awards ever.5. I thought I'd share my humor with Sqlservercentral thats all, I also don't mind you linking your work to mine if it makes you happy but does it really make you feel beter to try and discredit my fun piece in the process. 6.But those who enjoyed my silly humour thankyouAdiosThu, 30 Oct 2008 12:34:01 GMTShaunThttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspxMichael,Thanks for the response and let me say that I like your version better (sorry, Shaun). I wasn't aware you'd written it and I've been on SQL Team a good amount.You might be surprised how many people haven't seen that movie. For those of us that have it's easily recognizable, but for others they might not understand it at all.Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:07:24 GMTSteve Jones - SSC Editorhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspxIt is true that I didn't credit "A Few Good Men" in my parody; I guess I just assumed that everyone would know it was a parody of such a famous movie. I haven't seen anyone yet ask, "What was that?" A parody doesn’t really work if your audience doesn’t know the original.I don't mind that he modified the parody I wrote for his editorial, but a mention would have been nice, since “A Few Good DBAs” is not a widely known work. I do think it is obvious that it is based on my parody, since it is the same scene, starts one line later, ends on the same line, and has the same title. As others have said, imitation is the sincerest flattery, and in any case, he has an original take on it.I'm sorry if my first post made it seem like I thought this was a bigger deal than it is.Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:04:52 GMTMichael Valentine Joneshttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspxSteve, I read it as a joke and thought it was amusing. A piece of light-hearted entertainment to make you smile. A bit of fun and no more. I cannot believe some of these posts.Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:19:52 GMTS Hodkinsonhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspxI have read through both entries and I do not believe this is plagiarism. Plagiarism ( http://www.plagiarism.org/) is copying without giving credit to the source, essentially passing off ideas as your own.In both cases, the authors have borrowed from the movie dialog for the purposes of satire, not presenting an original idea. Neither author credited the movie, though I have just changed that.The common parts of the writing in each case are from the original movie. The parts that differ focus on separate topics. In this case the one from Mr. Jones (no relation) talks about a specific problem with an application, while the one here deals with general duties.As such, I am not going to alter or remove this one. Please feel free to state your case here or send me an email with an argument.Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:12:29 GMTSteve Jones - SSC Editorhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspx[quote][b]Keller (10/30/2008)[/b][hr]Aren't you forgetting something really obvious here? The first guy (MVJ) ripped off the movie, too. Ooh, "Blatent Plagerism!" Go yell at him too...no, even better, write a "strongly worded letter" to his manager letting him know what kind of person he has working for him. :D Man, you angry people must be the "other" DBA's I keep hearing about that have no sense of humor, and never use BULK COPY mode because it's PLAGERISM!!!The whole thing is plagerism, and quite funny. Plagerize on everyone! (And send it to me!...and sign your name on the bottom of it, I won't care!)[/quote]Amazing how defensive people get when they know they've been caught doing something.The easiest thing to do is quote your source rather than claim for someone elses work, or is this how you approach all of your work?Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:34:49 GMTRick-153145http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspxAren't you forgetting something really obvious here? The first guy (MVJ) ripped off the movie, too. Ooh, "Blatent Plagerism!" Go yell at him too...no, even better, write a "strongly worded letter" to his manager letting him know what kind of person he has working for him. :D Man, you angry people must be the "other" DBA's I keep hearing about that have no sense of humor, and never use BULK COPY mode because it's PLAGERISM!!!The whole thing is plagerism, and quite funny. Plagerize on everyone! (And send it to me!...and sign your name on the bottom of it, I won't care!)Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:18:02 GMTKeller-795887http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspximitation != blatant plagarismThu, 30 Oct 2008 06:06:13 GMTuberbloke-925890http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspxGeez Rick...who peed in your Wheaties?!? :DImitation is the sincerest form of flattery. That said, I must be the most flattering guy you people know. :PSide 1: I had a friend once that thought that he invented the concept of pouring cereal and milk into a glass instead of a bowl...do you think that maybe, just maybe, this similar concept could have been dreamt up more than once?!? Plus, I think you're right that the first one was more funny, so who would rip it off to make it less funny (but still pretty funny, though!)?Side 2: Who gives a crap? I owned a humor website back in the internet technology boom. It made me tons of money. I didn't own or write one piece of information on the entire site, and I made it blatently obvious, too. The only thing I did was compile and group them all together in once place to make it easier for everyone to find...hence, spreading the joy. Rick, do you send flaming e-mails to everyone that forwards a joke e-mail to you yelling at them for not writing it themselves? Go grab a stress ball, relax...go have a Coke and a smile.--AndrewThu, 30 Oct 2008 05:56:05 GMTKeller-795887http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspxI can't believe this blatent rip off has been left on the site. You would have though that the SQL Server Central contributors would at least need to be original.Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:03:26 GMTRick-153145http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspx[b]Ooh-rah!![/b] ;)Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:27:40 GMTAdrian Hammondhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspx[quote]Thanks, dude. I was going to watch that one tonight.[/quote]Sorry dude, but I thought South Africa was the country that watched Survivor last.DBA's, I have to say this. You are sick! Man, you are not millitarists, you are only DBA's! and as someone else said, without managers and developers you are actually nothing. What was first, the developer or the DBA. The developer of course. We developed the databases that you are so vehemtly guarding. We, the developers, also have integrity and we also want our systems to perform well so, behave or we might cut you out of the process.:D:D:D:D:D:w00t::w00t::w00t::hehe::hehe:Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:23:12 GMTManie Versterhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspxThe argument was awesome.... True indeed...managers do never understand what we go through in the root level...Cheers mate ... u did a great job :DThu, 30 Oct 2008 00:33:39 GMTMd Yaqoob http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspxGuess I'm better as "Shaq Nicholson"Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:09:13 GMTSteve Jones - SSC Editorhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspx[quote][b]David Reed (10/29/2008)[/b][hr]Humorous? Maybe. Looking at this from the perspective of the men and women in uniform who actually guard the wall for us 24/7/365, not so much.:sick:Laugh if ye want, but it sounds more like there are a bunch of DBAs out there with overinflated senses of self-importance.Without management, developers, users and all the others ye malign and impugn, yer data is WORTHLESS... they gave YE the data to protect. Without them, ye have no purpose.:P[/quote]Have served my country in the USAF, I can actually see the humor.Also, I have been a developer (still do, small shop) as well as a dba (still do, same small shop). I don't have an overinflated sense of self-importance, but if I don't try to protect the users data they certainly won't.Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:38:28 GMTLynn Pettishttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspx[quote][b]David Reed (10/29/2008)[/b][hr][quote][b]Michael Valentine Jones (10/29/2008)[/b][hr]I can't believe he ripped me off. I posted this on SQLTeam 3 and a half years ago; it's the reason for my forum title there, "Yak DBA Kernel (pronounced Colonel)" .[/quote]We forgot to tell you that you're one of the million monkeys on the Internet. Sorry.Good news! The experiment is over. The hypothesis was disproved. The webbernets and all its denizens have NOT produced anything better than Shakespeare. Oh, well. Too bad, since YouTube and Blogger went all out there at the end...You're free to go.:D[/quote]Oh well, it’s good to see that the news hasn’t dampened your sense of self importance.Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:32:47 GMTMichael Valentine Joneshttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspx[quote][b]Michael Valentine Jones (10/29/2008)[/b][hr]I can't believe he ripped me off. I posted this on SQLTeam 3 and a half years ago; it's the reason for my forum title there, "Yak DBA Kernel (pronounced Colonel)" .[/quote]We forgot to tell you that you're one of the million monkeys on the Internet. Sorry.Good news! The experiment is over. The hypothesis was disproved. The webbernets and all its denizens have NOT produced anything better than Shakespeare. Oh, well. Too bad, since YouTube and Blogger went all out there at the end...You're free to go.:DWed, 29 Oct 2008 12:20:04 GMTDavid Reed-223505http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspx[quote][b]Keller (10/29/2008)[/b][hr]Yer too late. [url=http://www.talklikeapirate.com/]Talk Like A Pirate Day[/url] was September 19th. Arrr![/quote]Nah, Pilgrim. Somebody on another thread here accused me of being a Puritan. (Imagine me: a Muslim guy in black outfit and big white collared costume. Too funny.) Put me in the mood to talk like the King James Version and (for some inexplicable reason) to recite "Charge of the Light Brigade". We'll always miss you, Alfred.:cool:Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:17:00 GMTDavid Reed-223505http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspx[quote][b]Bob Abernethy (10/29/2008)[/b][hr].... destroying the hacker haven just seconds before an ENTER key is pressed and the [i]worldwide worm[/i] released which would have rendered systems everywhere useless... [/quote]WWW. The World Wide Worm!!! :D Ah ... Ahh ... HA HA HAOuch, darn it. Falling out of a chair at my age hurts. What would Tim Berners-Lee say?Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:59:09 GMTCharles Kincaidhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspxOf all the editorials I have read this is the funniest while also being very meaningful! Good work Shaun!Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:36:57 GMTShrinikethttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspxWhy does this remind me of the Harrison Ford movie Clear and Present Danger? I can imagine a CIO identifying a Clear and Present Danger to a vital part of the IT infrastructure and telling the Director of IT in a 'plausibly deniable' way... to go take care of it. Next thing you know, Blackhawk helicopters are being loaded up and taking off in the dead of night, the pilots using their night vision goggles, heads-up displays, and GPS systems... bearing down on a den of unsuspecting hackers... releasing their state-of-the-art geek-seeking missiles which direct themselves with silent and deadly precision.... destroying the hacker haven just seconds before an ENTER key is pressed and the worldwide worm released which would have rendered systems everywhere useless... If only... :cool:Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:24:43 GMTBob Abernethyhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspxDavid, Yer too late. [url=http://www.talklikeapirate.com/]Talk Like A Pirate Day[/url] was September 19th. Arrr!--AndrewWed, 29 Oct 2008 11:05:35 GMTKeller-795887http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspxHumorous? Maybe. Looking at this from the perspective of the men and women in uniform who actually guard the wall for us 24/7/365, not so much.:sick:Laugh if ye want, but it sounds more like there are a bunch of DBAs out there with overinflated senses of self-importance.Without management, developers, users and all the others ye malign and impugn, yer data is WORTHLESS... they gave YE the data to protect. Without them, ye have no purpose.:PWed, 29 Oct 2008 10:53:58 GMTDavid Reed-223505http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspxWe laugh because it's funny and also because it is true.Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:13:06 GMTJohn Langstonhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspxit's a great day !sunny, not a cloud in the sky, 70, slight southerly breeze ...just attempting irony is all ...Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:11:22 GMTrudy - Doctor "X"http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspxI can't believe he ripped me off. I posted this on SQLTeam 3 and a half years ago; it's the reason for my forum title there, "Yak DBA Kernel (pronounced Colonel)" .Of course, my version was better.[url]http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=46783[/url]You can see my other DBA movie parodies here:Evil DBA (The history of my life is a parody of Dr. Evil in Austin Powers, International man of Mystery where he attends group therapy with his son. Of course that movie is a parody of James Bond movies.)[url]http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=58327[/url]The Silence of the DBAs (Parody of Silence of the Lambs)[url]http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=63071[/url]Links edited to credit original works.Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:00:57 GMTMichael Valentine Joneshttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspxPhew, where did that come from? Someone is having a bad day.Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:18:32 GMTDa-474565http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspxSIR – YES SIRWed, 29 Oct 2008 09:14:21 GMTrudy - Doctor "X"http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspxMmmm....cheese.Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:35:02 GMTKeller-795887http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspxSorry, I thought that was kind of cheesy.Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:33:04 GMTPatrick Cahillhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspx[quote][b]Keller (10/29/2008)[/b][hr]Charles, You'll have to send me that part number...I've been looking for one of those. :-) [snip]--Andrew[/quote]I [u][i][b]could [/b][/i][/u]look it up for you, but then I'd have to ... On second thought.Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:26:58 GMTCharles Kincaidhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspx[quote][b]Steve Jones - Editor (10/29/2008)[/b][hr]No guns at work. Chances are we're run out of developers and have to go code things ourselves. Now truncheons....I thought this was a little silly shooting the podcast, or maybe that was me. Glad you enjoyed it and thanks Shaun![/quote]Oooh! I can do truncheons, not a problem.Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:15:50 GMTGrant Fritcheyhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspxI love it!!! It is great!!!!!Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:07:25 GMTLonerhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspxIt's funny because it's true... :)But, alas, it must be said: Shades of Terry Childs...Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:03:01 GMTroger.plowmanhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspxI didn't expect there to be a video version of the podcast today (since there wasn't yesterday), but just watched it...hillarious!"Steve Jones, I've met Jack Nicholson, and you, sir, are no Jack Nicholson" ;-)Awesome, keep up the good work Steve and Shaun! (Man, I really need to get my camera back up and running so I can get in there and show you how it's done.) :P --AndrewWed, 29 Oct 2008 06:59:58 GMTKeller-795887http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspxCharles, You'll have to send me that part number...I've been looking for one of those. :-) I saw a pull-mechanism for a lawn mower sitting in a guys office one day (I think he had just replaced it and brought it in from home), so we mounted it to his old machine as a joke about how you had to pull it to get the thing started each morning (it was fairly slow and outdated). It apparently helped, because his boss (finally) got him a new machine about two months later.--AndrewWed, 29 Oct 2008 06:50:33 GMTKeller-795887http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspx[quote]All jokes aside, we here in South Africa only watched the final of Survivor Fiji last night and I must say that I was so sorry that Yauman was voted out. I hoped he would win it.[/quote]Thanks, dude. I was going to watch that one tonight.Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:48:30 GMTSteven Tahanhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspxNo guns at work. Chances are we're run out of developers and have to go code things ourselves. Now truncheons....I thought this was a little silly shooting the podcast, or maybe that was me. Glad you enjoyed it and thanks Shaun!Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:47:56 GMTSteve Jones - SSC Editorhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspx[quote][b]Grant Fritchey (10/29/2008)[/b][hr]Does this mean I get to carry a gun at work now?[/quote]I'm and old IBM 1130 hack. A buddy of mine who was, at the time, a comm center specialist in Vietnam sent me a very cryptic letter. It was and IBM part number. What the ...? I looked it up. It's a bracket that bolts to the side of the CPU console. It's a holder for a Thompson .45 caliber sub-machine gun :w00t: Talk a bout defending your data!Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:41:21 GMTCharles Kincaidhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic593326-263-1.aspxAbsolutely... hilarious that made my day, well done Shaun.Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:34:16 GMTbrian clements-470670