Shoutout!

November 13, 2006 12:37 AM

I hope this is the right place to do it... I just would like to give a great big shout-out to everyone who took time to answer my newspaper job interview and tryout questions.

I'm hired!!!

You all rock, but CunningLinguist, croutonsupafreak, frogan, M.C. Lo-Carb! and game warden to the events rhino rock lots.

Thank-you.

And thanks Mr Haughey for making a place where, within minutes, people who had the exact answers I needed were chipping in advice, reassurance and perspective from all over the world. That's pretty damn amazing. You rock too.
posted by t0astie to MetaFilter-related at 12:37 AM (20 comments total)

Great Work! Congrats!
posted by Pollomacho at 1:29 AM on November 13, 2006

Well done!
posted by pjern at 2:18 AM on November 13, 2006

and thanks, microsoft, for inventing the intertubes!
posted by quonsar at 4:16 AM on November 13, 2006

Everybody rocks!
posted by flapjax at midnite at 4:26 AM on November 13, 2006

So you got the bosses drunk? Good man!
posted by CunningLinguist at 5:30 AM on November 13, 2006

Hey, congratulations!
posted by different at 5:37 AM on November 13, 2006

Congrats!

We should also thank Job, for not suing the hell out of the English-language employment machine for diluting the crap out of his trademark.
posted by cortex at 6:10 AM on November 13, 2006

Yes, congratulations!

And remember, you (like me) now belong to the second-most hated profession after estate agents (according to UK surveys I swear I remember reading a while back). Cherish it!
posted by game warden to the events rhino at 9:19 AM on November 13, 2006

Nicely done. I get the feeling you'll do well in this business.

Just try to make sure you don't end up here, or here.
posted by M.C. Lo-Carb! at 9:47 AM on November 13, 2006

Ta again everyone.

CunningLinguist, alas no. But I did get to cover a parade.
posted by t0astie at 2:28 PM on November 13, 2006

I don't rock. Oh how I wish I rocked.
posted by BrodieShadeTree at 4:42 PM on November 13, 2006

Way to go!
posted by croutonsupafreak at 4:55 PM on November 13, 2006

according to UK surveys

Your country needs more lawyers and used car salesmen. We could spare a few hundred thousand if you'd like. You could move them all to Slough.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 7:14 PM on November 13, 2006

Dammit, forgot to say:

Congrats!!
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 7:14 PM on November 13, 2006

Congrats, and welcome to the wonderful world of journalism!
posted by diddlegnome at 8:12 PM on November 13, 2006

Awesome. Make us proud.
posted by rbs at 9:08 PM on November 13, 2006

You mean I actually helped someone? And I'm being thanked for it? I'm usually pegged as the whacko libertarian curmudgeon around here.

/me blushes a little

Congrats, mate. Don't let us down.
posted by frogan at 10:04 PM on November 13, 2006

Libertarian curmudgeons rock hardest of all.
posted by t0astie at 12:56 AM on November 14, 2006

I did get to cover a parade.

Oh, my condolences. Your new bosses are harsh! Even a sewer board meeting is better than a parade.
posted by CunningLinguist at 6:27 AM on November 14, 2006

Yes, yes, everybody rocks!

What's the story behind game warden to the events rhino's username?
posted by marxchivist at 12:40 PM on November 14, 2006