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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>field circus</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="FidoNet.html" title="FidoNet"/><link rel="next" href="field-servoid.html" title="field servoid"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">field circus</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FidoNet.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="field-servoid.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="field-circus"/><dt xmlns="" id="field-circus"><b>field circus</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [a derogatory pun on ‘field service’] The field service
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organization of any hardware manufacturer, but originally
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<a href="../D/DEC.html"><i class="glossterm">DEC</i></a>. There is an entire genre of jokes about field
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circus engineers:</p><div class="literallayout"><p><br/>
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Q: How can you recognize a field circus engineer<br/>
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with a flat tire?<br/>
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A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat.<br/>
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<br/>
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Q: How can you recognize a field circus engineer<br/>
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who is out of gas?<br/>
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A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat.<br/>
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<br/>
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Q: How can you tell it's <span class="emphasis"><em>your</em></span> field circus engineer?<br/>
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A: The spare is flat, too.<br/>
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</p></div><p>[See <a href="../E/Easter-egging.html"><i class="glossterm">Easter egging</i></a> for additional insight on
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these jokes.]</p><p>There is also the ‘Field Circus Cheer’ (from the old
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<a href="../P/plan-file.html"><i class="glossterm">plan file</i></a> for DEC on MIT-AI):</p><div class="literallayout"><p><br/>
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Maynard! Maynard!<br/>
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Don't mess with us!<br/>
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We're mean and we're tough!<br/>
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If you get us confused<br/>
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We'll screw up your stuff.<br/>
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</p></div><p>(DEC's service HQ, still extant under the HP regime, is located
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in Maynard, Massachusetts.)</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FidoNet.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="field-servoid.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">FidoNet </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> field servoid</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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