Friday 29 January 2010

The Beatles Friday

So with the mighty spacechimp defecting onto pastures new, the email conversations have been pretty dull in work. Usually they demand to know where certain figures are and I tell them where they should stick their figures.


In an excel sheet, of course.


Or that they want me to call certain customers. Sack that, if they’re that important they’ll call me back. Fools.


Cooper came in and said that he’d been playing The Beatles Rock Band all night. Incidentally, he doesn’t like any of The Beatles individually, only collectively. I said that George was my favourite… and that I would go gay for George Harrison. He said that there were a few men that he would go gay for but George wasn’t one of them. He didn’t specify who and I didn’t ask if it was only because George was a bit decayed now.


Then the emails started...


09.45 Cooper
Baby you can drive my car....

09.46 Stripes
Wouldn't that invalidate your insurance?

09.52 Cooper
Possibly, however, I Am The Walrus!

09.55 Stripes
You shouldn't be in these climates... Get Back to where you once belong!

10.02 Cooper
I'd rather not.... I'd like to be, under the sea, in an octopus's garden in the shade.

10.03 Stripes
You can keep the garden, we all live in a yellow submarine.

10.23 Cooper
What about Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band? They can hardly play in a Yellow Submarine, although I don't suppose under the sea is ideal for them either.

10.25 Stripes
Of course they could play there... their instruments are made of Norwegian Wood.

10.37 Cooper
And what about Lady Madonna and Dear Prudence, how will they occupy their time on said submarine?

10.41 Stripes
I could say on some Norwegian Wood!! Perhaps having some fun on the Helter-Skelter?

11.17 Cooper
Ah of course, I Should Have Known Better.

11.34 Stripes
However, there's Something you should know about Michelle?

11.37 Cooper
She's Got A Ticket To Ride?

11.39 Stripes
She Loves You Yeah Yeah Yeah!

11.40 Cooper
That's great because All You Need Is Love.

11.50 Stripes
With Love and A Little Help From My Friends you can enjoy life on that Long And Winding Road.

11.55 Cooper
Here's hoping, and It Won't be Long, When I'm 64, i'll be looking back, wondering why the hell it was your friends that gave me Help!

Luncheon interlude.


Not that we were getting up to much work anyway.

13.22 Stripes
As a socialist, I sent them With Love, From Me, To You... I said to them "Don't Let Me Down" and I know they won't, they'll only Please Please Me.

14.40 Cooper

I’m tired now, I don’t see me coming up with anything else witty and relevant……

14.43 Stripes

Wait... Get Back to this email thread or else there will be a Revolution!

14.47 Cooper

Fine, I’ll Keep You Satisfied, but know this, Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey, so I’ll Get You!!

14.59 Stripes

Oh Darling, nothing to hide? You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away!

15.42 Cooper

Don’t be silly, All I Need To Do is Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds and All Things Shall Pass.

15.52 Stripes

Back In The USSR, we didn’t have any ‘diamonds’ like that. But we did take Eleanor Rigby on a Magical Mystery Tour... she was a real Daytripper if you know what I mean!

16.24 Cooper

You Can’t Do That!! I think When I Get Home, after A Hard Day’s Night, I’ll call up Lovely Rita and With All My Loving, we’ll Come Together.

After that climatic finish… I thought I should just Let It Be.

~Stripes