transcription, транскрипция: [ 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 confusedWe'll screw up your stuff.
(DEC's service HQ, still extant under the Compaq regime, is located in Maynard, Massachusetts.)