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Cerium on May 24, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

Back when I was going to college one day the American Studies professor asked the class if anyone knew the word "sabotage". I was shocked, it is such a common word I thought there would be an answer right away. Since nobody felt like giving a definition, I did. "Yes professor, that is when you throw your wooden shoe into the mill-works". Silence. Everyone looks at me. The professor responds: "Yes, He is correct..."

Cpoll on May 24, 2017 | [–]

"Wooden shoe" is correct, but "kick with shoe" is the likely intent. I think the mill-works bit is apocryphal, in spite of Star Trek.

phonon on May 24, 2017 | [–]

Sounds like no-one else in the class was a Trekker :-)

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