Field circus
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field circus: n.
[a derogatory pun on `field service'] The field service organization of any hardware manufacturer, but originally DEC. There is an entire genre of jokes about field circus engineers:
- Q: How can you recognize a field circus engineer with a flat tire?
- A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat.
- Q: How can you recognize a field circus engineer who is out of gas?
- A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat.
- Q: How can you tell it's your field circus engineer?
- A: The spare is flat, too.
[See Easter egging for additional insight on these jokes.]
There is also the `Field Circus Cheer' (from the old plan file for DEC on MIT-AI):
- Maynard! Maynard!
- Don't mess with us!
- We're mean and we're tough!
- If you get us confused
- We'll screw up your stuff.
(DEC's service HQ, still extant under the HP regime, is located in Maynard, Massachusetts.)
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