itsmelisa Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 There was an engineer who had an exceptional gift for fixing all things mechanical. After serving his company loyally for over 30 years, he happily retired. Several years later, the company contacted him regarding a seemingly impossible problem they were having with one of their multi-million dollar machines. They had tried everything and everyone to get the machine fixed, but to no avail. In desperation, they called on the retired engineer who had solved so many of their problems in the past. The engineer reluctantly took the challenge. He spent a day studying the huge machine. At the end of the day, he marked a small "x" in chalk on a particular component of the machine and proudly stated, "This is where your problem is." The part was replaced and the machine worked perfectly again. The company received a bill for $50,000 from the engineer for his services. They demanded an itemized accounting of his charges. The engineer responded: One chalk mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1 Knowing where to put it . . . . . . . $49,999 ---------- - Lisa Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35789-a-bill-for-50000/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
oregano Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 lol guys, this is spam, itsmelisa is just advertising her joke site Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35789-a-bill-for-50000/#findComment-255081 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbz Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 yup could a mod take a look at this/her/him/it please? thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35789-a-bill-for-50000/#findComment-255098 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sHARD>> Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 Quite possibly a bot. This is the only post that has a URL in it, so as long as it doesn't happen again I don't mind a few extra jokes getting posted in this section. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35789-a-bill-for-50000/#findComment-255102 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbz Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 alrighty, that sounds fair. I agree with the no-link thing! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35789-a-bill-for-50000/#findComment-255137 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 Same, and most of the time the jokes arent even funny lol Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35789-a-bill-for-50000/#findComment-255142 Share on other sites More sharing options...
asap18 Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 yeah these are the worst jokes ever i dont think her joke site will do well with these jokes if she starts spamming, we should take her down Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35789-a-bill-for-50000/#findComment-255199 Share on other sites More sharing options...
trav1085 Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 What link? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35789-a-bill-for-50000/#findComment-256584 Share on other sites More sharing options...
oregano Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 What link? it was removed i think it was dead anyway, i clicked on it and it didnt work lol, this is like, stupid spam but hey, a few jokes here and there, but some are pretty bad Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35789-a-bill-for-50000/#findComment-256649 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takuro Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 I still don't get this joke. I've read it over and over again. It's just so arbitrary. You can't charge somebody for "knowing" something. You can only charge them if you actually do something. Not to mention that for expensive machine work, people usually get an estimate first. Totally implausible... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35789-a-bill-for-50000/#findComment-256650 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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