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Steve Kraus
Film God

Posts: 4094
From: Chicago, IL, USA
Registered: May 2000


 - posted 09-02-2004 04:25 PM      Profile for Steve Kraus     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
I'm projecting in Technirama.

What do you do that sounds impressive but isn't? Perambulate infants on the sidewalk? Engage in philately? Please, if it involves the release of copious amounts of hydrogen sulfide gas we don't need to know. [Eek!]

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Dave Williams
Wet nipple scene

Posts: 1836
From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Registered: Jan 2000


 - posted 09-02-2004 05:50 PM      Profile for Dave Williams   Author's Homepage   Email Dave Williams   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
according to my workers comp case... i am a ....

"post injurious disambulatory occupational participant"...

It means my foot still hurts, but I can go to work if I want to...

ciao

Dave

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Steve Guttag
We forgot the crackers Gromit!!!

Posts: 12814
From: Annapolis, MD
Registered: Dec 1999


 - posted 09-02-2004 07:33 PM      Profile for Steve Guttag   Email Steve Guttag   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Moving Picture Machine Operator = projectionist.

Steve

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Brian Michael Weidemann
Expert cat molester

Posts: 944
From: Costa Mesa, CA United States
Registered: Feb 2004


 - posted 09-03-2004 04:32 AM      Profile for Brian Michael Weidemann   Author's Homepage   Email Brian Michael Weidemann   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
I have a friend with a degree in Philosophy. Unfortunately, for an income, he can't put it to use quite yet. So in the meantime, he's working as Publications Distribution Specialist.

He has a paper route.

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John Hegel
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 166
From: Lake Mills, Iowa
Registered: Sep 2000


 - posted 09-03-2004 04:56 AM      Profile for John Hegel   Author's Homepage   Email John Hegel   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Mega-plex

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Dominic Espinosa
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1172
From: California, U.S.A.
Registered: Jan 2004


 - posted 09-03-2004 12:42 PM      Profile for Dominic Espinosa   Email Dominic Espinosa   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
I've been a Web Based Systems Administration Consultant...In reality that just means I tell people what's wrong with their websites and the servers they run. Then they take my advice and experience over to the window, open it, and throw it right out on to the street.

My favorite title is still "The wierd guy from upstairs".

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Gary Crawford
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 200
From: Neptune NJ USA
Registered: Nov 2003


 - posted 09-06-2004 12:46 AM      Profile for Gary Crawford   Email Gary Crawford   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
This is what I did for a living several years ago...

Surface, manual guidance, contractual commodity, articulated engineering specialist.

(Truck driver)

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Adam Wilbert
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 590
From: Bellingham, WA, USA
Registered: Mar 2002


 - posted 09-06-2004 01:36 AM      Profile for Adam Wilbert   Author's Homepage   Email Adam Wilbert   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
"Master's Candidate"

i.e. Still a student

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Paul Mayer
Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under!

Posts: 3836
From: Albuquerque, NM
Registered: Feb 2000


 - posted 09-06-2004 12:18 PM      Profile for Paul Mayer   Author's Homepage   Email Paul Mayer   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Along with "professor's slave" for a few years... [uhoh]

Can't finish your thesis? Read another book! [Big Grin]

Defenestrates bandwidth-limited focused optical radiation on to a planar or cylindrical section surface of specified size, aspect ratio, reflectivity, and spectral response. See photon flinging...

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Tim Reed
Better Projection Pays

Posts: 5246
From: Northampton, PA
Registered: Sep 1999


 - posted 09-06-2004 06:26 PM      Profile for Tim Reed   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
I was formerly a Motion Picture Projection and Sound Service Engineer = Sound Man (the popular term when I got in the business) = Booth Tech (today's popular term)

Now I are a Trucker = Steering Wheel Holder

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Steve Kraus
Film God

Posts: 4094
From: Chicago, IL, USA
Registered: May 2000


 - posted 09-06-2004 07:05 PM      Profile for Steve Kraus     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Let's confine this to descriptions and terms actually used, not what you can make up. I doubt anyone calls a truck driver an articulated engineering specialist.

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Richard Fowler
Film God

Posts: 2392
From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA
Registered: Jun 2001


 - posted 09-06-2004 07:22 PM      Profile for Richard Fowler   Email Richard Fowler   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Filmovara lens....a zoom projector lens for a Bell & Howell 16mm projector. I had a client in the early 1970's with 16mm projection in addition to 35mm in his cinemas and he was not happy until you "installed" a Filmovara...he was a retired radio announcer and loved the rolling syllables of Film...o...var...a......He out cooted Phil [Big Grin]

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Scott Norwood
Film God

Posts: 8146
From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99


 - posted 09-06-2004 11:39 PM      Profile for Scott Norwood   Author's Homepage   Email Scott Norwood   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
I love the "super" series names:

Super Platter (stupid platter)
Super 35
Super Simplex

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John Pytlak
Film God

Posts: 9987
From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000


 - posted 09-08-2004 11:33 AM      Profile for John Pytlak   Author's Homepage   Email John Pytlak   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Super-8
Super-16
SuperScope
Super Technirama 70
Super Panavision 70
SuperPanorama
Superama
SuperCinescope
Super Techniscope
SuperTotalscope
SuperVision [Wink]

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