Another Work Anecdote

This one is way too good not to post. Lately it seems all I've been posting about is work. (I have another good one I'll save for tomorrow.)

So usually in the morning, while I'm going thru all my emails for the day from work, I'll go to this message board that talks about some entertainment news. One of the items under discussion was Evel Knievel lashing out at Kanye West (he of the: infamous rant against George Bush during the Katrina Telethon; swollen head (and knees) from his multiple ego trips; and generally gifted rapper). Evel was saying how Kanye had defamed the Knievel name/trademark by basically pretending to be Evel in his "Touch the Sky" video (I believe his moniker was Evel Kanyevel - classy and original, right?). So Evel's going on and on about how Kanye is horrible, a bad role model, stolen his image, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Then, after reading the article, I read what this one poster wrote and totally cracked up. I copied her remark to my clipboard, meaning to send it to a friend in an email. But work got really busy, and I didn't, and completely forgot about it.

Cut to five hours later. Am on a call with my Tech Lead, the Lead Architect, and two others who are working on my project. I am on NetMeeting - if you don't know what that is, basically, you can show people what's on your screen and make group changes real time so everyone can collaborate and see what's going on at the same time). So one of the lines I'm working on, we decide to change the word "provisioning." So I highlight the word and change the text color to red. And I decide to Bold the text. The keyboard shortcut for bold is Ctrl+B. Which, incidentally, the letter "B" is right next to the letter "V" on the keyboard. Which, incidentally, CTRL+V equals the keyboard shortcut for PASTE. Sooooooo, genius me, hits CTRL+V and away vanishes the word "provisioning" and in it's place? The quote I had originally copied. "Evel Knieval hates black people." And I didn't even realize it. Til there was silence on the other line. I looked up at my screen and thought, "Holy crap." I immediately did UNDO UNDO UNDO. At which point the Lead Arch says "I'm not even going to ask what that meant," in a somewhat seriously mocking tone. So I'm backpeddling and trying to give a 10 second explanation of the Evel/Kanye story and how this one girl was making fun of Kanye saying Bush hates black people and um, I was going to send that quote to a friend (thereby digging myself deeper by admitting that I was writing personal emails on company time) ... Le Sigh. So I just completely changed the subject and all was forgotten.

It's a good thing I work with people who have a dry sense of humor.

Anyway, my lunch break is almost up. It's back to the grind. Hopefully I don't have any more meetings today where I have to share my screen. :)

Links:
Evel Knievel Sues Kanye West Over Video (text)
Kanye @ Katrina Fundraiser w/George Bush comment(video)
Kanye & Mike Myers spoofing the awkwardness on SNL (text & video)