The Dummy (1685 hits)
Category: Humor -> Dumb JobsRating: 1.9 on 24 reviews (Rate this item) (V)
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB <dell_fargus.at.yahoo.com> (View user info) at 2004-04-29 09:49:45 EDT
I believe that I have found the ultimate way to honor a coworker. You're asking 'How?' Well, let me explain further.
In the winter, the work at my civil/structural engineering firm tends to taper off due to the fact that it's almost impossible to survey outside in knee-deep snow. This gives us a lot of, well, screw-off time. Due to these circumstances, my assistant usually gets laid off, opening up a cubicle.
One morning this past January, my co-worker, who is also named Bob, came to my desk with the coolest thing that you can give a co-worker: a reddish-brown, 20 year old Member's Only Jacket. Apparently, he was cleaning out his basement, and found it and thought that I could find something creative to do with it.
"Member's Only, eh?" I asked.
"You must have been the only member." I said with a laugh as I accepted the dubious gift.
We shared a laugh and Bob went back to his office.
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"What the hell are you going to do with that?" asked the guy in the cubicle next to me that constantly plays Dave Matthews.
Inspiration moved me brightly as I had an idea.
"Let's make a dummy! Not just any dummy: a Bob-dummy."
My cube-neighbor looked at me like I had dragons coming out of my head.
I continued, "It would be the ultimate honor to Bob, it would give me something to do with this godawful jacket, and it would kill some of the day. Think about how awesome this can be!"
We conferred for a few minutes about how to build a dummy, what office supplies we would need, and what to do with the dummy after we completed the task. After all, we're engineers, our jobs depend on us pulling ideas out of nowhere. It was decided that the dummy would take residence in the open cubicle occupied by the seasonal assistant mentioned above.
After 90 minutes of nonchalantly gathering various supplies from around our building and diligently constructing our scrap-paper filled co-worker, we finished.
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Bob was a little ticked at first when he first saw it, but it grew on him. Our boss thought it was hilarious. Other people in the office also told me that it scared the hell out of them when they came into the office late at night or on the weekends because they weren't expecting to see anyone or anything there. The dummy rocked.
I threw some more pictures of the dummy onto the net at:
http://www.geocities.com/dell_fargus/chad-n-bmack-dummy-03.JPG
http://www.geocities.com/dell_fargus/b-mack-dummy-03a.JPG
http://www.geocities.com/dell_fargus/b-mack-dummy-03-b.JPG
User Reviews
Submitted by sideshow (user info) at 2007-04-04 14:45:28 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Good times had by all
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2007-04-04 12:41:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
HAHA- This guy is way more lifelike than the boardwalk Jon Bon Jovi framed poster who sits in for whoever is out for the day in my office.
Submitted by orph (user info) at 2007-02-23 08:59:30 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by precision (user info) at 2005-06-20 13:59:58 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
We did somthing like that a few years ago, we took a picture from my supervisors desk of him and his wife, blew it up life size and cut it out mounted on foam core and left it on his chair while he was on vacation. Over the course of the week, people added many interesting things to it.
Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2005-06-20 13:35:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
That kicks ass.
Submitted by munkeypants (user info) at 2005-06-20 13:19:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
HAHAHAHAHA
how the hell did I miss this one??
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2005-06-20 10:44:45 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by c1ndy (user info) at 2004-09-04 12:46:44 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
you scary people
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2004-09-04 12:15:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Fuck, that's a cool-ass dummy! I love the hand gesture!
Rock ON!!! YEEEEEEAAAA!
Submitted by woody (user info) at 2004-07-25 22:30:46 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Are you the two Bob's from Office Space?
Submitted by jimbo (user info) at 2004-06-15 11:07:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Bob Dummy...classic. Next time, try to make a paper-mache SLEESTACK!!!
I'm an engineer, too, and I can't do shit like this at work. I wish I could.
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2004-05-06 09:51:32 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
These links are kinda dubious due to geocities limiting bandwidth. I also think that they frown on something that they host being linked to another site. To get around this, just go here:
http://www.geocities.com/dell_fargus/
Submitted by Falconer (user info) at 2004-05-05 15:41:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Excellent dummy making skills there.
Submitted by slowlyrotting (user info) at 2004-05-05 13:58:58 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
stop camwhoring me
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2004-04-29 13:02:59 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Sorry about the links...they DO work, but geoshitties limits the amount of hourly bandwith that I get for a free site.
Submitted by kidsensation (user info) at 2004-04-29 12:06:51 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Is that a pound cake?
mmmmm....pound cake
Submitted by DeathJester (user info) at 2004-04-29 10:55:39 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Beavis and Butthead on your cube.
I am envious.
Indeed
Submitted by AshK (user info) at 2004-04-29 10:45:40 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
He is officially creepy.
Submitted by wazzawazzayo (user info) at 2004-04-29 10:41:32 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Does your dummy have a paper penis?
Submitted by Ainkara (user info) at 2004-04-29 10:40:26 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
That would scare me...
Submitted by TripinDayZ420 (user info) at 2004-04-29 10:21:02 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
awesome man, if only i had that much creativity i wouldn't be killing time at work on this god forsaken site!! (which i love)
Submitted by Rixes (user info) at 2004-04-29 10:12:03 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Kicker of all ass.
Submitted by Envenom (user info) at 2004-04-29 10:10:17 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Sweet
Submitted by Creepy_guy (user info) at 2004-04-29 09:52:20 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
+2 for the picture and, "My cube-neighbor looked at me like I had dragons coming out of my head."
That's an awsome line. I don't know why, but it is.