Mr. Daily and the Fish

Mr. Daily is a coworker at my engineering office, he is an interesting fellow.

He loves to use the phrase 'However, comma...' to start a statement in counterpoint to someone's idea, I'm not saying that he immediately jumps in to suggest a better alternative or tear down someone's concept, but it's just an odd phrase to use.

Quite a while back the administrative manager called him Mr. Weeks as he was walking through the front entry to go to the bathroom or something, she enjoys making up other time related alternatives to his name. His retort was his name ('daily') being mentioned in the Lord's Prayer. He was referring to 'oh lord, please bless us our daily bread...', I heard all of this because I was set up in the conference room off the front entry QC-ing some plans, I said 'we think pretty highly of ourselves don't we Mr. Daily (using his first name).' To which he responded with a slightly embarrassed chuckle and hitched up his khakis then adjusted them back down and walked off. The admin laughed 'that was pretty good!'

We have a toy fish that is passed around to different people when someone gets all bent out of shape on something. Mr. Daily gets the fish all of the time as a result of his tendency to fly off the handle, so he always ends up with the fish. For 2008, he was letting his hair and beard grow out and towards the end of the year he’d taken to tying his hair into a small pony tail. This was noted by many and more importantly by the guys that enjoy setting Mr. Daily off and giving the fish back to him. The decided to memorialize the pony tail by adding a pony tail to the fish. See the picture below.