field circus

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field circus - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  field circus
  
     A derogatory pun on "field service".  The field service
     organisation of any hardware manufacturer, but especially
     DEC.  There is an entire genre of jokes about DEC field
     circus engineers:
  
     Q: How can you recognise a DEC field circus engineer with a
     flat tire?
  
     A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat.
  
     Q: How can you recognise a DEC field circus engineer who is
     out of gas?
  
     A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat.
  
     See Easter egging for additional insight on these jokes.
  
     There is also the "Field Circus Cheer" (from the plan file
     for DEC on MIT-AI):
  
      Maynard! Maynard!
      Don't mess with us!
      We're mean and we're tough!
      If you get us confused
      We'll screw up your stuff.
  
     (DEC's service HQ is located in Maynard, Massachusetts).
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1994-12-01)
  

field circus - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  field circus
   n.
  
     [a derogatory pun on `field service'] The field service organization
     of any hardware manufacturer, but originally DEC. There is an
  entire
     genre of jokes about field circus engineers:
  
     Q: How can you recognize a field circus engineer
     with a flat tire?
     A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat.
     Q: How can you recognize a field circus engineer
     who is out of gas?
     A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat.
     Q: How can you tell it's your field circus engineer?
     A: The spare is flat, too.
  
     [See Easter egging for additional insight on these jokes.]
  
     There is also the `Field Circus Cheer' (from the old plan file for
     DEC on MIT-AI):
  
     Maynard! Maynard!
     Don't mess with us!
     We're mean and we're tough!
     If you get us confused
     We'll screw up your stuff.
  
     (DEC's service HQ, still extant under the HP regime, is located in
     Maynard, Massachusetts.)