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| My contribution ;) | Mar 6, 2009 |
[Editado a las 2009-03-06 09:45 GMT]
And some creative humour
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| | | | | The office penguin | Mar 6, 2009 |
Hi Attila,
Attila Piróth wrote:
Hi Jared,
The dot is excellent, it looks a bit like a puffin. What is it exactly?
Attila
That is the La Plata office's mascot, a penguin that someone brought in and we began to take whenever someone traveled somewhere. Last I heard, it was up in Syracuse...
Jared
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| Close-up picture, please | Mar 6, 2009 |
Jared wrote:
That is the La Plata office's mascot, a penguin that someone brought in and we began to take whenever someone traveled somewhere. Last I heard, it was up in Syracuse...
Hi Jared,
Could you post a close-up portrait of the mascot, here, please? I think most of us would appreciate it. I would not mind seeing it on the ProZ.com team page, but perhaps it has a better place here, in the Off topic forum.
Any chance to meet the mascot in Macedonia? The organizers will certainly be delighted to put a stamp into its passport.
Attila
| | | | | I'll see what I can find | Mar 6, 2009 |
I'll see what I can do, Attila. Sending the penguin to Macedonia sounds good (we need to track down his exact current location first).
Before he makes it to the team page he will have to do more than just gallivant around the world, of course.
Jared
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Here's one where the penguin was visiting some friends at a bird refuge:
Sorry, have we just gone off-topic in the off topic forum?
Jared
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| Thanks for the photo | Mar 6, 2009 |
Jared wrote:
Sorry, have we just gone off-topic in the off topic forum?
I think that this thread would have been poorer without this picture. And ProZ.com, too. Check out in a year's time, I predict that this is the starting point of a stellar career. Wanna bet?
For those who read this post months or years after March 2009: back in ancient times, the mascot did not appear either on the "ProZ.com team" page or any other prominent place of the site. Even its close friends in the La Plata office did not know its whereabouts. The regular monthly ProZ.com newsletter did not have a regular column about his recent trips simply because he did not travel. Imagine, folks, it was not yet common practice that whenever there is a conference or powwow within reach, the mascot is accompanied by a staff member there, to be taken into picture by translators from all corners of the world. Horribile dictu: it did not even have a name! There were no cartoons about it which would serve for ProZ.com's transcreation contest (which did not exist then, either). It was a completely different world, about which grandfathers tell their grandchildren incredible stories.
But this all changed on a cloudy Friday afternoon (morning, evening, night, Saturday dawn: not easy to put a precise time tag here, as the sun never sets on the ProZ.com community), which marked the start of one of the largest-scale grass-root movements on ProZ.com: to find a name to the mascot. The rest has been duly recorded by historians.
Attila
[Edited at 2009-03-06 14:12 GMT]
[Edited at 2009-03-06 14:12 GMT]
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Henk Peelen wrote:
 [Bijgewerkt op 2009-02-14 11:04 GMT]
Hank, this is fabulous. It ought to be worth at least 4 of those ultra-valuable FotoZ!
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