Tecch Support

A little ways back I posted a clip from the first Superman movie, with Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor. In that scene his henchman, Otis, played by Ned Beatty, has a black eye. Lex gave it to him earlier in the movie after Otis screwed up a slightly challenging technical assignment.

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Those numbers may as well be an IP address! I love this scene, and I’m fond of quoting it at work, because it perfectly dramatizes the reality of life in high tech, where support people who are earnestly working hard, and trying to do their job right, nevertheless totally screw it up.

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  1. HA! I always like this scene, too. What a moron! I like the way his called his boss “Mr. Loothawr.” And remember! The sublime Valerlie Perrine was not usually too far away in the Luther scenes. I loved how to melted in Sumperman’s arms and told them where the bad guys were

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