I was just told to "pull it"

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background: i am a network operations center technician at an application service provider

scenario: an application server was running at 100% CPU utilization for several minutes, my coworkers and i agreed that we should "pull it" and i removed the server from the load balancing cluster

but now im wondering, was i supposed to do that, or should i have blown the server up for the insurance?


anyone else have experience "pulling" things?
 
My dentist told me I had a bad cavity in one of my teeth, and he was going to have to pull it. At the time I thought, "cool, maybe that will help the pain", but now with all this talk about explosives, I'm beginning to get worried.
 
Perhaps "pulling it" rather than pulling out would lead to fewer illegitimate children and certainly fewer alimony payments. It does make one hell of a mess though.
 
I sometimes have to pull a building permit, perhaps I'm really supposed to blow them up? It would save a lot of time at City Hall...
 
WildCat said:
I sometimes have to pull a building permit, perhaps I'm really supposed to blow them up? It would save a lot of time at City Hall...
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That would save me a lot of time as well. Pull it, the answer to plan review.

Perhaps Larry did it after all, he was just trying to keep from having to obtain a demo permit.
 
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AHHem !! My mother told me not to do stuff like that.......
 
defaultdotxbe said:
but now im wondering, was i supposed to do that, or should i have blown the server up for the insurance?
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You think that's bad? I just had to reheat my lunch.

Someone told me to "nuke it." I wasn't sure if he meant, "Put it in the microwave for 4 minutes," or, "Plant a thermonuclear device inside the rice pilaf."
 
realitybites said:
You think that's bad? I just had to reheat my lunch.

Someone told me to "nuke it." I wasn't sure if he meant, "Put it in the microwave for 4 minutes," or, "Plant a thermonuclear device inside the rice pilaf."
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When I worked in a restaurant kitchen a long time ago, the manager gave me a plate of pasta and told me to "zap" it. I threw it in the trash, drawing his immediate wrath. I had never heard the term "zap" used to mean "heat up in the microwave".
 
Someone just told me to "shove it". This has me completely mystified. Is this the opposite of "pull it"? If so, what is the opposite of demolishing something with explosives? :con2:

Help please! I feel like an idiot, standing here scratching my head over this!
 
chipmunk stew said:
Someone just told me to "shove it". This has me completely mystified. Is this the opposite of "pull it"? If so, what is the opposite of demolishing something with explosives? :con2:

Help please! I feel like an idiot, standing here scratching my head over this!
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They use explosives to create tunnels. Maybe that's shoving? :confused:
 
chipmunk stew said:
Someone just told me to "shove it". This has me completely mystified. Is this the opposite of "pull it"? If so, what is the opposite of demolishing something with explosives? :con2:

Help please! I feel like an idiot, standing here scratching my head over this!
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You use wood glue to rebuild something that had been demolished. Be careful to remember the wood glue though, it's the most important part.
 
i always though a better slang term for explosive demolition would be "push it" as in "push the button" or "push the plunger" (old school)
 
In the film industry, we often "kill" lights. Now I have lightmares* about 18Kw HMIs running around on their tripods incinerating everyone in sight, like the machines in Spielberg's version of "War Of The Worlds".

-Gumboot

*that was a typo, shoulda been "nightmares". Decided to leave it since it fits rather nicely (n and l aren't even next to each other!)
 
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twinstead said:
My dentist told me I had a bad cavity in one of my teeth, and he was going to have to pull it. At the time I thought, "cool, maybe that will help the pain", but now with all this talk about explosives, I'm beginning to get worried.
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There was a Three Stooges episode in which all efforts to remove a tooth, including the string tied to the doorknob, failed, so they resorted to dynamite.
 
Gravy said:
There was a Three Stooges episode in which all efforts to remove a tooth, including the string tied to the doorknob, failed, so they resorted to dynamite.
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Yea. That's what I'm afraid of...
 
I'm a lurker, but I just can't resist.




I'm pulling it right now.
 
On several occasions, while advising clients on the content of advertisements that may or may not breach certain laws, I've had occasion to tell them that they should "pull it" rather than publish it. They client would, as a result, withdraw the advertisement.

On several occasions, while advising media clients on whether a particular story might cross the boundaries into libel territory, I've advised them to "pull" the story before the paper went to press. (They tended to use the word "kill" rather than "pull" in their responses, though, when they withdrew the story.)

Still, in none of these instances were any preplanted explosives utilized and in none of these instances was anyone ever killed.
 
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