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Paul,
It's very thoughful of you to pre-plan an activity during your party, but, with all due respect, YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING! "Sound like fun?" NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! DBA trivia at a Chrismas party?!?!? Come on, think of something EVERYONE (significant others included) can enjoy! DBAs have a bad enough reputation for not "having a life" - you don't need to reinforce it.
IMHO, "shop talk" should be strictly banned at parties. Think of something a bit more fun - movie trivia, music lyrics, "the best jokes I've ever heard". There should be plenty of internet sites at which you could find lots of info. for topics such as these.
Or - my favorite - have anyone who knows how to dance teach the others a step or two of Swing, Salsa, etc. Get those normally sedentary DBAs off their duffs and on their feet! Have a dance contest!
Jokes could have the party-goers rolling on the floor - DBA trivia absolutely WON'T.
Respectfully,
Jack
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 8:20 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Hello DBAs,
I'm having a company holiday party today, and as you all may know my company employs mostly DBAs. (Pythian is an Oracle DBA Outsourcing shop.)
I'm thinking of having a "DBA Weakest Link" game for fun at some point of the evening. Yes, I know, the partners/husbands/wives will think it's a bit of a bore, but imagine the fun for us DBAs! :-)
So what I'm trying to do is get many, many weakest link-style questions
(with answers) ready. I want them mostly to be easy, but with the odd hard
one snuck in for unfairness. Please help out by submitting your questions,
and I'll summarize and post the complete list back to the list when I'm
done!
Sound like fun? I'll get us started with a format.
...
Paul
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