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2021-07-17 // day precision

Contracting swashbucklers versus ninjas

Posted by Dan Cary

Original source text

Who would win in a contracting throw down, Ninjas or Swashbucklers?
A source photograph of a person holding a sword, captioned WHEN YOU’D RATHER BE A CONTRACTING SWASHBUCKLER THAN NINJA.
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The caption asks which contracting archetype would win, with Timothy Wilhelm tagged in the post. The pictured sword-bearing figure is used for the swashbuckler joke; identity is not independently inferred from the image. Wilhelm’s comments suggest a privateer acting for government and joke about an RAF title. SOURCE DISCUSSION — transcribed original comments 2021-07-17 — Timothy Wilhelm: I would be more like a contracting privateer because I’m doing on behalf of the Government. 2021-07-17 — Timothy Wilhelm: I wonder what the COs in the RAF are called. Like Her Majesty’s Exchequer of the Contract Coverage: Two of two displayed comments captured. 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, Contracting identity, Community culture