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Journal by FortKnox on Thursday September 08, 2005 @11:20AM

I have a line I love to use, but find very few opportunities to use it:

You can't polish a turd

I have an application that I maintain. I was brought into my current project to make said application 'stable.' It was written by a moron and designed by a cobol programmer who didn't know the limitations of a web applications. Promises were made and it was a steaming pile of crap.
Anyone asks me about said application??

"What can I say... you can't polish a turd."

Try and use it in the office sometime today. Very rarely will the opportunity arise to use it, but its usually well worth it :D

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Word to the youngsters... (Score:3, Insightful)

by Otter ( 3800 ) writes: on Thursday September 08, 2005 @11:32AM (#13509736) Journal

*NEVER* put something like this in writing, including email! That one unserious comment you made in a moment of frustration can back to hugely haunt you, and don't expect scumbag lawyers, Elliot Spitzer or the media to put it in context.

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similar to a theo quote (Score:1)

by Triumph The Insult C ( 586706 ) writes:

"We are not hackers. We are turd polishing craftsmen."

the rest are here [openbsd.org]
Ive used it before (Score:2)

by nocomment ( 239368 ) writes:

Jsut a couple months ago one of my managers was asking if I could tweak our mail system to make it faster. I responded that you can't polish a turd, and she practically went into hysterics.
technically, you can (Score:1)

by Em Emalb ( 452530 ) * writes:

but you get shit everywhere.

Danke danke, I be heah all da veek.

Try ze veal. Tis goot.
- Re:technically, you can (Score:2)
  
  by Ethelred Unraed ( 32954 ) * writes:
  
  You post was really really funny until you said German stuff.
  It is a well-established fact after years of scientific studies that German and humor are completely incompatible. In fact Einstein established (in his little-reported Relative Theory of Humor) that successful use of the German language to tell a joke would result in the complete destruction of the known Universe by a Teutonic titwillow. [blogger.com]
  You heff been varnt.
  Tcheerß,
  Ezzelrhett
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by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes:

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another one (Score:1)

by eglamkowski ( 631706 ) writes:

"Operating like [or smooth-as] a well-oiled floor."
couldn't you gold plate it, first? (Score:2)

by artifex2004 ( 766107 ) writes:

Bronzed might be better, but gold-plated sounds like something people would actually use, adjectively speaking.
You can't??? (Score:2)

by Shadow Wrought ( 586631 ) writes:

What if you used a fan? Nevermind...
finally (Score:2)

by nizo ( 81281 ) * writes:

Now I know what to tell people when they wonder why I can't fix their b0rken outlook.
just used it on Fark to describe Bush (Score:2)

by mekkab ( 133181 ) writes:

and I gave you a shout out.

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