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I had a military boss, an obnoxious AF major, who announced to us one day that he was at last going to get some "face time with the general" to discuss my project, but that it would not be necessary for me to go along to explain it since all I would have to do would be to give him some cryptic notes that he could look at if the general asked him a question.
Was he pissed when he discovered that I had given him two pages of encoded questions-answers. What probably pissed him off the most was that he didn't look at them before-hand. What was I trying to do, screw up his career? (actually, yes).
So I just handed him his email along with the dictionary open to the word cryptic and said, "Hell, I couldn't figure out why you wanted it this way, but you've told us for over a year now that you don't want us questioning your orders."
Old Ron retired as a major, and I like to think I helped.
TEd
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