… decal applying person.
I got a shipment of whistles today. One of the brass Bb’s has no decal at all. Many of the other whistles have the decal placed higher up on the tube than I’ve seen over a number of years.
This means I have to place the “Jerry Freeman Tweaked” sticker BELOW the Generation decal on some of the whistles.
Sometimes the stress level of this job is almost more than I can take.
Best wishes,
Jerry
i look forward to the future “counterfeit Freeman?” and “is this a REAL gen?” topics in the next year 
Just relax…Take some deep breaths…and meditate for a short while.
I’m sure you’ll get through it 
Sticker Shock!
Sticker shock! Good one!
Maybe they are playing games. Those Brits, still getting over losing the colonies.
Oops, I was testing my new industrial computer virus.
It’s based on Stuxnet, but for sticker application robots
instead of centrifuges.
Anyone who uses the StickerBot 3004 is susceptible.
It’s mostly because I’m sick of peeling the stickers
off my apples, whistles are just collateral damage.
Sorry about that.
Not person, Jerry. Elves. In a hollow tree outside Oswestry. I thought you knew this stuff.
Not a person? And that hot Elf babe you were hitting on the other day: what was she, chopped lembas?
Sorry. I wrote hastily in my distress over this disaster.
You are correct. I should have written:
“Generation seems to be breaking in a new decal applying ELF.”
Thank you for catching that, and I apologize for any confusion I may have caused.
Best wishes
Jerry
Ya know, “decal” is not a word that one hears in the UK. Which means that, every time I do hear it, or read it, I automatically think of Captain Beefheart.
You must be scarred for life.
Man, I don’t remember that. I must have been drunk on mead or elf nog or something.
Best. Thread. Ever.
interesting…
For me anyhow, anything which you peel off and stick on something is a “sticker”.
A “decal” is like the things that used to come with plastic model kits of airplanes, that you soak in water before applying. In Britain, are these called “stickers” or “transfers” or what?
BTW I just looked up “decal” in a dictionary and disovered that it’s short for decalcomania, which is the tranferring of a prepared design onto glass, wood, etc. Who knew?
My British opinion:
If it has a sticky back its a sticker, if it hasn’t its a transfer (So Airfix models would be transfers)
Decal isn’t a word I hear much either, except in car brochures, when they try to dub a new term for ‘go faster stripes’
I think that explains it. They’ve been licked off, baby.
Feadoggie
Yes, of course! Now why didn’t I put 2 and 2 together … ? 
Yeah, I have to admit I facepalmed.
I used to love Captain Beefheart and Tenille on their television show.
Best wishes.
Steve
And I though all these years “decalcomania” was obsessive over-achievement brought on by an overwhelming desire to acquire gold stickers.