In RiD (One of the recent modern Transformers adaptations), the robots would say “so and so^[1] Transform” in an appropriately dramatic voice, because, you know, if they didn’t say it the gears and such wouldn’t operate and they’d be stuck in their previous mode. For some totally unjustifiable reason this caused me to imagine myself saying “Extend Contract” in another suitably dramatic voice, when “David”^[2] told me that my contract had been extended until the end of December^[3]. My immediate employer called and said that the contract will be in the mail, and I trust them a little more, so it looks like I’m good until the end of the year.

1. Insert actual Transformer’s name here
2. of “I don’t trust him any further than I can throw him” fame
3. ...and of course by the end of December, I actually mean 15 December, because apparently in Australia big business shuts down half way through December for three weeks