| Author | Message | ||
| Noobdogg (Noobdogg)
New member Username: Noobdogg Post Number: 574 Registered: 9-2007 |
I work as a field engineer at an oilfield services company. If we aren't on rigs or platforms, we're at the workshop toiling with heavy machinery. We have a bone to pick with the so-called office engineers, who have a sort of white-collar version of our job. In short, they decide what to do, and we actually do it. However when it comes to us trainees, whether it's the office ones or the field ones, when our supervisors don't know what to do with us, they often tell us to "Get some blarping done." What's blarping? | ||
| Liquizt (Liquizt)
New member Username: Liquizt Post Number: 467 Registered: 5-2008 |
a form of work? a form of rest? a form of play? | ||
| Gourami (Gourami)
New member Username: Gourami Post Number: 208 Registered: 2-2008 |
Does it have to do with the job directly? Is it specific to the oil industry? Is it something boring/tedious? Dangerous? Does it allow you to practice for the job in some way? | ||
| Noobdogg (Noobdogg)
New member Username: Noobdogg Post Number: 580 Registered: 9-2007 |
a form of work? Yes, FA a form of rest? No a form of play? No Does it have to do with the job directly? Yes, FA Is it specific to the oil industry? No Is it something boring/tedious? Yes, FA Dangerous? Yesish, FA Does it allow you to practice for the job in some way? No, FA You need to figure out what the FA is before moving on :-) | ||
| Alex319 (Alex319)
New member Username: Alex319 Post Number: 777 Registered: 5-2007 |
Is "blarping" an actual, physical action? Is it an action that they actually expect you to perform? Or is the statement intended as a joke of some sort? | ||
| Gourami (Gourami)
New member Username: Gourami Post Number: 210 Registered: 2-2008 |
Should I have pluralized the "it"s? Can blarping not be described as an "it" at all? Do you blarp when they say to? | ||
| Noobdogg (Noobdogg)
New member Username: Noobdogg Post Number: 582 Registered: 9-2007 |
Is "blarping" an actual, physical action? Yes, FA Is it an action that they actually expect you to perform? Yes, FA Or is the statement intended as a joke of some sort? Should I have pluralized the "it"s? YesishCan blarping not be described as an "it" at all? No, FADo you blarp when they say to? Yes | ||
| Gourami (Gourami)
New member Username: Gourami Post Number: 214 Registered: 2-2008 |
Are we conjugating "blarping" incorrectly (i.e. we say blarping when it should be blarp)? | ||
| Noobdogg (Noobdogg)
New member Username: Noobdogg Post Number: 583 Registered: 9-2007 |
Are we conjugating "blarping" incorrectly (i.e. we say blarping when it should be blarp)? No this isnt the FA | ||
| Alex319 (Alex319)
New member Username: Alex319 Post Number: 778 Registered: 5-2007 |
Is "blarping" a noun? verb? adjective? adverb? Would it make sense to use "blarp" as a verb? | ||
| Woodworm (Woodworm)
New member Username: Woodworm Post Number: 1480 Registered: 3-2006 |
Is the first "blarping" used in the same sense as the second? Is it a gerund in each case? Is the question inviting us to guess what blarping actually is? Example where the sense changes: "Get some cooking done". "What's cooking?" Answer: a roast chicken. Anything along these lines? | ||
| Noobdogg (Noobdogg)
New member Username: Noobdogg Post Number: 585 Registered: 9-2007 |
Is "blarping" a noun? This is closest verb? adjective? adverb? Would it make sense to use "blarp" as a verb? Yes Is the first "blarping" used in the same sense as the second? No, good question Is it a gerund in each case? Yes Is the question inviting us to guess what blarping actually is? Yes Example where the sense changes: "Get some cooking done". "What's cooking?" Answer: a roast chicken. Anything along these lines? As usual your lateral mind puts my puzzles to shame, but I'm nowhere near as creative as that :-D | ||
| Noobdogg (Noobdogg)
New member Username: Noobdogg Post Number: 589 Registered: 9-2007 |
Err slight blooper... when woodworm asked: Is the first "blarping" used in the same sense as the second? I misunderstood the question. The two occurrences of the word blarping in the puzzle statement are one and the same. But since I've inadvertently given it away, the FA was because there are in fact two separate instances of blarping in another sense - I'll leave you to figure out what this means :-) | ||
| Gourami (Gourami)
New member Username: Gourami Post Number: 224 Registered: 2-2008 |
Is there a pun involved? Does "blarp" have multiple definitions? Or can it be applied to two situations? One to do with machinery and the other with the office? One to do with white-collar and the other blue? | ||
| Noobdogg (Noobdogg)
New member Username: Noobdogg Post Number: 591 Registered: 9-2007 |
Is there a pun involved? Noish Does "blarp" have multiple definitions? YES Or can it be applied to two situations? One to do with machinery and the other with the office? This is perfectly correct One to do with white-collar and the other blue? Exactly - your almost there :-) | ||
| Noobdogg (Noobdogg)
New member Username: Noobdogg Post Number: 596 Registered: 9-2007 |
YOU'RE! gah | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 196 Registered: 6-2008 |
maybe filing? (as in, sorting papers or shaving off pieces of metal) | ||
| Gourami (Gourami)
New member Username: Gourami Post Number: 228 Registered: 2-2008 |
Oh, I bet that's it. If not...does the 'office' meaning have to do with papers? Furniture? Computers? Organization? Meetings? Phones? Moving something? | ||
| Noobdogg (Noobdogg)
New member Username: Noobdogg Post Number: 599 Registered: 9-2007 |
maybe filing? (as in, sorting papers or shaving off pieces of metal) Exactly :-D ********SPOILER******** White collar or blue, "Filing" is the bane of our lives as trainees :-( Thanks for playing along! | ||
| Gourami (Gourami)
New member Username: Gourami Post Number: 232 Registered: 2-2008 |
Very nice. |
