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As a roughneck in my university summers on drilling rigs in Northern Alberta, Canada, I often saw blue trucks from Schlumberger then red trucks from Halliburton - the ones to lower logging tools into the borehole and measure underlying rock formations, the others to perform cementing or fracturing jobs and prepare a well for production. Roughnecks and tool-pushers on those rigs often came from nearby ranches to supplement their income, as farming was marginal even in those days and hourly pay on the rigs very good. Well folks, S-c-h-l-u-m-b-e-r-g-e-r was quite a handful to spell out when filling out work orders and contract sheets. Ranchers on the other hand were used, in branding cattle and for variety in symbols, to turn a letter on its side and call it “slumber-{letter}”. It’s not hard then to imagine that a phonetically correct Slumber-J (instead of Schlumberger) easily headed many a work order signed in Northern Alberta before the blue trucks rushed off to the next job... My bottom entry shows an updated scenario illustrating another transition from Rig to computeR.
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