Episode 01-07-2014 – Nestordamus smiles!

Our friend Nestor Rychtyckyj (aka Nestordamus) was recently featured in a IT journal. 

From the Lunch Gang…CONGRATS Nestordamus!

Episode 12-23-2013 – It’s Official

The final proved to be questionable with T-Mobile winning yet another FFB League Championship. However, this time he had to work for it.

Some say its skill selecting your players; using slide rulers; scientific calculators; among other things. Others believe it’s just luck. I tend to agree with the latter. But what one thing that I do know FBB play is as long as Mansel doesn’t win again the “Lunch Gang FFB League”, I’m OK with whoever wins. To see what I mean look at Mansel’s braggadocios declaration below and you’ll understand why we did everything we could to beat him this year.

2014 will bring about changes with the “Lunch Gang FFB League”. The director of FFB operations, ManCave will be tightening up on the rules…but until then, T-Mobile win’s again.

Episode 12-17-2013 – The Things We Learned From Our Parents

Below are 25 statements your parents may or may not have said to you growing up. So we call this episode “The Things We Learned From our Parents”. Enjoy!

1. My Parents taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE
"If you’re going to kill each other, do it outside...I just finished cleaning."

2. My Parents taught me RELIGION.  
"You better pray that comes out of the carpet."

3. My Parents taught me about TIME TRAVEL. 
"If you don’t cut it out, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!"

4. My Parents taught me LOGIC. 
“Because I said so, that's why."

5. My Parents taught me MORE LOGIC.  
"If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the shops with  me."

6. My Parents taught me FORESIGHT. 
"Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're hit by a bus."

7. My Parents taught me IRONY.  
"Keep crying and I'll give you something to cry about."

8. My Parents taught me about the science of OSMOSIS. 
"Shut your mouth and eat your dinner." 

9. My Parents taught me about CONTORTIONIST. 
"Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck"

10. My Parents taught me about STAMINA. 
"You'll sit there until all those peas are gone."

11. My Parents taught me about WEATHER. 
"This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it."

12. My Parents taught me about HYPOCRISY. 
"If I told you once, I've told you a million times. Don't exaggerate!"

13. My Parents taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE. 
"I brought you into this world, and I can take you out of it."

14. My Parents taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION. 
"Stop acting like a goose!"

15. My Parents taught me about ENVY. 
"There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don't have wonderful parents like you do." 

16. My Parents taught me about ANTICIPATION. 
"Just wait until we get home."

17. My Parents taught me about RECEIVING. 
"You are going to get it when you get home!"

18. My Parents taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE. 
"If you don’t stop crossing your eyes, they are going to get stuck that way."

19. My Parents taught me ESP. 
"Put your sweatshirt on; don't you think I know when you are cold?"

20. My Parents taught me HUMOR. 
"When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don't come running to me."

21. My Parents taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT.  
"If you don’t eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up."

22. My Parents taught me GENETICS.  
"You're just like your father."

  
23. My Parents taught me about my ROOTS. 
"Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?"

24. My Parents taught me WISDOM.  
"When you get to be my age, you'll understand."

25. My Parents taught me about JUSTICE. 

"One day you'll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you!"

Episode 12-20-2013 – Ken Calvert retiring from WCSX-FM

After 40 years, longtime Detroit radio host Ken Calvert will be saying goodbye and signing off from the WCSX-FM (94.7) morning show today. His unmistakable voice will be missed. Thanks for the contributions you made to Detroit radio for many years. You will be missed!

Episode 12-16-2013 – Really?

Lunch Gang global search master, ManCave, shows us all why you never, ever put Christmas tree lights on a Palm tree. What sick bastard does something like this? Moron.

Episode 12-06-2013 – Farewell Schmenge

Normally, we don’t post crab like this but it almost made us cry. Seriously who writes stuff like this?

Gentlemen of the LG,

This is the 2nd time I'll email you from my desk at MECA, and the last. We've been together 12 weeks now, and soon it'll be time for me to go. But before I do, I wanted to share some thoughts, some of which I've been saving for a long time.

It's been one of the great honors of my life to be a member of the Lunch Gang. So many of you have written the past few days to say thanks, but I could say as much to you. I am grateful for the opportunity you gave me to serve you and Ford Motor Company.

People ask how I feel about leaving. And the fact is, "parting is such sweet sorrow." The sweet part is my promotion to Director of Training and Integration at ERS and giving up my “cube” at iTek before winter, which is “conveniently” located, adjacent to the entrance. The sorrow?  The goodbyes of course, and leaving this great group [the LG] of people behind.

I've been thinking a bit. I've been reflecting on what the past 12 weeks have meant and mean. And the image that comes to mind like a refrain is a nautical one--a small story about a big ship, and a refugee, and a sailor. It was back in the early eighties, at the height of the boat people. The sailor was hard at work on the carrier Midway, which was patrolling the South China Sea. The sailor, like most American servicemen, was young, smart, and fiercely observant. The crew spied on the horizon a leaky little boat. And crammed inside were refugees from Indochina hoping to get to iTek. The Midway sent a small launch to bring them to the ship and safety. As the refugees made their way through the choppy seas, one spied the sailor on deck, and stood up, and called out to him. He yelled, "Hello, American sailor. Hello, freedom man."

A small moment with a big meaning, a moment the sailor, who wrote it in a letter, couldn't get out of his mind. And, when I saw it, neither could I. The LG represented the Midway for me; and iTek – my leaky little boat.   Thank you men of the Lunch Gang, for accepting and welcoming me into your fraternity, and saving me from forced conversation and fun with the “Old White Guys Table of iTek”.  

I sincerely hope our paths cross again in the future!  As we part ways for now, know it was a pleasure working with all of you.  Good luck in all of your individual endeavors, and I look forward to the prospect of once again breaking bread with the gang.

Respectfully Submitted

Marc Liljegren (aka. Schmenge; aka. Next Generation Pickey)

OK already…enough! Dam that Schmenge. But it’s not over….the men of the round table had something to say. Here goes…

Mansel: Who are you?

ManCave: You D*mn Schmenge

Mansel: I bet he comes back to Ford within a year and becomes our boss.

ManCave: At the rate he is ascending at his old company via these promotions, he will come back here as a big shooter!

Coach: Say goodbye already will you? Way to sappy for us.

Bago: Who the heck is Marc Liljegren???

Episode 12-05-2013 – What happen to my wooden spoons?

Pierre’ gave us some insight into his world today. He told the group at Bago Memorial Café today that he once took his wife’s wooden spoons out of the kitchen and cut them up for dowel rods.

The way the story went, Pierre’ had been working on a project (fixing a window frame) and noticed he needed a couple of wooden dowel robs. So he got down off the ladder, walked to the garage, and notice he was out. A light bulb went off in his head “my wife just bought a new pair of wooden spoons…I can use them. I’ll cut off the spoon part and use the handles and she’ll never miss them”. Little did he know that in a couple of days his wife would be looking for those very spoons? When she couldn’t find them, she immediately called out Pierre’s name!