In fact, Jef makes a living as a cartoonist. Look for “Frazz” here on GoComics. He and Stephan are either fake arch enemies, or Stephan really hates Jef’s guts. I can never figure that out.
I remember a satiric rendition of the Rawhide theme song. I seem to remember that it was sung with a heavy Irish accent, and where it got to the “Cut ’em in, Ride ’em out, Ride ’em in, Cut ’em out” bit, this was followed up by someone responding “Make yer bloody mind up!” My sides still ache when I think of hearing that.
Y2K was fun. We spent two periods of a week each to run loads of sandbox tests. There was an old telexing program, written in Pascal and still in use at some large sites, that went tits up. One of them paid us a ton to fix them. So we did.During the last test, in December 1999, nothing went wrong. On Dec. 31 (a Friday), we went home at about three in the afternoon. Nobody was worried. I kept my phone on, and logged in remotely half an hour after midnight. All was well. Come Monday, we returned to the office. Business as usual.
Transmogrifiers. The kid knows his classics.