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2021-07-22 // day precision

You shall not name the contractor until the contract is signed

Posted by Dan Cary

Original source text

Gandalf holding a staff beneath YOU SHALL NOT NAME ANY CONTRACTOR UNTIL THE CONTRACT IS SIGNED.
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Comment attachment by Andre Toves: Fry squints beneath NEW CS < 1 Month and WELL SH*T.
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Comment attachment by Andy Knott: Gandalf hanging from a ledge with the caption FAR YOU FOOLS!
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Editorial interpretation

Gandalf becomes a contracting admonition. A member asks to print the meme for an office door; Dan agrees and describes the career-field work-meme page with self-deprecating humor. Andy Knott’s “FAR you fools” attachment is praised as deserving its own post. This is evidence of community reuse and participation, not a general legal rule or a new blanket license. SOURCE DISCUSSION — transcribed original comments 2021-07-22 — Andy Knott: [Image-only comment; see the associated discussion image above.] 2021-07-22 — Dan Cary — reply in Andy Knott’s thread: Andy Knott deserves its own post! 2021-07-22 — Jennifer Stewart: Permission to print this to canvas and hang on my office door??? 😆 2021-07-22 — Andre Toves: Paul Blais [Associated comment image is displayed above.] 2021-07-22 — Dan Cary — reply in Jennifer Stewart’s thread: Jennifer Stewart yes but it will cost you a conversation with anyone that asks about where you found it. Tell them some idiot on the internet has too much free time and started a career field centric “work meme” page. They aren’t very good most of the time, but every once in a while you chuckle. Or something to that effect, I wouldn’t want to tell you how to live your life. 2021-07-23 — Rachel Sullivan: What happened to #ToolsNotRules ? Coverage: Six of six displayed comments captured, with both comment images retained at native-viewer resolution. Thread grouping follows source thread-root links; unknown immediate reply parents are not inferred. Dates preserve the displayed day, with timezone unknown. The heading, alt text and opening historical explanation are AI-assisted editorial interpretation. The original caption, preserved image renditions and transcribed discussion are source material. Public images are metadata-stripped display derivatives of Facebook-served files; the original upload files and edit history were not established.

Topics: Early Years, July 2021, Source selection, Meme making, Community culture