an unexpected analogy
Apr. 28th, 2010 11:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioThis phone conversation with a customer (who I've met once) today made
perfect sense at the time and only prompted the "wait, what?" reaction later:
Me: In your application, what's the difference between a Thingie and a Whatsis? [Names have been changed to protect the... oh, never mind.]
Him: Do you remember "I'm Just a Bill" from Schoolhouse Rock?
Me: Certainly.
Him: A Thingie is like the bill; when it's signed into law it becomes a Whatsis.
Me: But it looks like it can still change... you have executive orders?
Only later did it occur to me to wonder why he didn't just say a Thingie was a draft or a proposal and a Whatsis was the approved form... but it was more fun this way, even if it took me a while to then get that song out of my head. So now I share that earworm with some of you. :-)
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Date: 2010-04-30 12:54 pm (UTC)