Wednesday 28 Mar 2007

Time Warp

I’ve been at my current job for nearly a decade. That’s ten years of not only toiling tirelessly for Uncle Sam but also taking the same bank of elevators up to the same floor in the same office building.

When I exit the elevators, I face a wall on which is hung a bulletin board encased in glass. Despite the fact that I have walked past this bulletin board literally thousands of times, I never paid any attention to anything in it until this posting was pointed out to me last week by a coworker:

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Holy crap, was I even alive when this thing was thumbtacked to the wall (click on the photo below to enlarge it).

Okay, maybe I was alive, but I could have been as young as 4 and no older than 16 since the building was dedicated in 1965 and J. Edgar died in 1977.

Talk about the dead hand.

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23 Responses to “Time Warp”

  1. # Alarming Female on 28 Mar 2007 at 10:50 pm

    Yikes! J Edgar?

    I remember my mom always being a little paranoid if one of those black ballpoints accidentally ended up in her purse; you know, the ones with the minuscule white print?

  2. # marie in florida on 29 Mar 2007 at 6:05 am

    just this past weekend i listened, via internet, to the voice of Harry Houdini. the past hasn’t passed really.
    weird.

  3. # Beth on 29 Mar 2007 at 6:17 am

    If you’ve been working there 10 years, would they consider that time served?

  4. # Carole on 29 Mar 2007 at 6:21 am

    And it’s only gotten worse.

  5. # Sarah HB on 29 Mar 2007 at 6:36 am

    I guess no one has the key to the bulletin board cabinet.

    I agree with Alarming Female…those pens were horrible..and were 10 years ago when I was at the USDA.

  6. # margene on 29 Mar 2007 at 6:53 am

    J. Edgar will never leave us.

  7. # Tan on 29 Mar 2007 at 6:57 am

    Funny!

  8. # Paula on 29 Mar 2007 at 8:25 am

    Gee, I think I have pens from the House and Senate. I figured my taxes paid for them.

  9. # Isela on 29 Mar 2007 at 8:45 am

    hehehe, Paula, I agree, hehehe.

  10. # KatherineOfItAll on 29 Mar 2007 at 10:18 am

    J. Edgar: my favorite cross-dresser ever. That is pretty much his entire legacy in my head.

  11. # Laura on 29 Mar 2007 at 10:27 am

    I love what Sarah HB said. hehe So are you trying to tell us that you want to change jobs Susan?

  12. # Valerie in San Diego on 29 Mar 2007 at 10:28 am

    That’s a cross between eerie and cool.

  13. # Angie on 29 Mar 2007 at 12:07 pm

    That is Funny!

  14. # --Deb on 29 Mar 2007 at 2:48 pm

    He really does reach from beyond the grave, doesn’t he??

  15. # Amber on 29 Mar 2007 at 6:45 pm

    Who was the crazy co-worker who pointed THAT out?

  16. # gail on 29 Mar 2007 at 6:55 pm

    Thank you so much for your comment on my blog. Yes, I would love some leftover sock yarn–the washable kind. Let me know how I can reach you. my email address is gsnowdenATwiscDOTedu

    Thanks!!

  17. # Carol on 30 Mar 2007 at 8:59 am

    They never really do go away, do they?

  18. # Mary on 30 Mar 2007 at 11:53 am

    Well, since it says “a theft from your government is a theft from you” and you can’t exactly steal something from yourself, does that mean you’re off the hook if you decide to take home a pad of post-its?

  19. # Ann on 30 Mar 2007 at 12:47 pm

    Susan
    A while ago you mad a little basket with a round bottom. Can you direct me to the pattern and where I saw it on your blog, please?
    Thanks :)

  20. # elan on 02 Apr 2007 at 5:59 am

    The notice is probably worth more than any pen you might take home accidentally.

  21. # Jen on 02 Apr 2007 at 12:35 pm

    What does it say on the bottom of the page?

  22. # Jennifer on 03 Apr 2007 at 3:44 am

    That’s kind of funny. It’s the sort of thing that makes me miss my military life with all the bureaucracy and signs, signs, signs everywhere. Maybe we should post similar signs on our household bulletin boards? I think this J. Edgar Hoover sign could be put to great use by a very creative interior designer, don’t you?

  23. # Gwen on 03 Apr 2007 at 5:45 am

    …and I thought “dead hand” was a Charlton Heston reference…LOL..
    Are you sure this wasn’t put up recently as a joke???