jim tropp

Dr. James Tropp is a brilliant scientist from GE that I have been working with a little in the last few years. He swears a lot, especially when things are not working. Some of his favorite expressions when things are not going well include: "what the fuck is this happy horseshit (he is talking to himself)" or "you fucking piece of shit (he is talking to the machine)". Needless to say, we get along pretty well. Yesterday we were doing some testing on this really complicate hardware setup for this new project we have been part of. And the piece of shit was just not working right. So I said to him: "this whole fucking thing will work when pigs fly." He replies without any hesitation: "then there will be pork on tree top." You might think it is kind of stupid (like I care) but I thought it was one of the funniest thing I ever heard. Well, bacon is not falling from the sky just yet.....