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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

An Email Conversation Between Two Geeks

I present an email conversation between myself and my boss:

From: Boss
Subject: Question

Hey, I just got an e-mail from our legal team. It raised a question. Why can't our profession have a cool suffix to our name like Esquire? How cool would it be if I could have a prefix like Prof, but Mstr (webmaster)?

From: Erin
Subject: Re: Question

Genius!

OK let's figure this out.... according to the wikipedia "Esquire" defines either one of "gentle birth" (one step above a gentleman) or in the U.S., a lawyer. It was derived from "squires" who assisted "knights".

So a modern-day knight would be an ... officer of the law? So an esquire assists the officers of the law.

We (web designers) basically assist marketing and advertising. Which in the days of yore would have been what? I'm picturing the medicine show men.. you know the ones that sold "snake oil" and stuff like that. When I pull that up in the Wikipedia I get an entry for con men. Ha! And a con man's assistant is a "shill".

Erin Lillis, Shill

Or a peddler. And a peddler's assistant is an ass.

From: Boss
Subject: Re: Re: Question


So we assist in cons....well it IS the internet. I have no argument worth any merit to refute it. so Boss McBosserson, Shill it is! But to make it more prestigious sounding let's make it SHL.

From: Erin
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Question


Or we could go with the whole "master of our domain" thing and go with Emperor.

Erin Lillis, Empr

From: Boss
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Question


I like Supreme Commander

From: Erin
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Question


Or Dark Lord

From: Boss
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Question


You always go dark don't you?

From: Erin
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Question


It's my natural inclination to be vampiric.

Erin Lillis, DrkLrd

From: Boss
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Question


Congratulations! You managed to use "natural" and "vampiric" together in a sentence. Not easily done