Any good jokes ... ?
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Chris S
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Chris S
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Not one of my normal posts, this one's a bit more serious.
If anybody knows of any lonely old people who will be eating Christmas dinner alone this year because they have no family or close friends, can they let me know? I need to borrow some chairs.
If anybody knows of any lonely old people who will be eating Christmas dinner alone this year because they have no family or close friends, can they let me know? I need to borrow some chairs.
Andy in Germany
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I love the fact that they even spelt "Arabic" incorrectly, but only once.
Profpointy
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That's right up there with the supposedly true Welsh sign translation, where "Swyddfa Meicrosofft" auto out-of-office message has ended up printed on the actual sign
In my previous job, we provided services to a large German-based company who were one of our best customers. Their emails always had something like "Mit freundlichen Grüßen" on the signature line even though they wrote to us in English.
One of the customer service girls once replied to one of their emails starting it "Dear Mit" and logging the enquiry on our system with Mit freundlichen as contact name. She never lived it down.
Profpointy
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In my previous job, we provided services to a large German-based company who were one of our best customers. Their emails always had something like "Mit freundlichen Grüßen" on the signature line even though they wrote to us in English.
One of the customer service girls once replied to one of their emails starting it "Dear Mit" and logging the enquiry on our system with Mit freundlichen as contact name. She never lived it down.
In a similar vein, there's a truly hilarious caving memoir "The Cave Explorers" by the late Jim Eyre. They are in, I think, Yugoslavia, in the 60s and Jim keeps talking to his Yugo contact "Ing" and only later discovers it's not a slavic sounding name, but the honorific for Engineer; just like we have Mr, Dr, Professor, they apparently have "Ing" as a title used to address someone
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Chris S
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I suspect it's been photoshopped.
T4tomo
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Hardrock93
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If stale, they would Old Scoons.
Many years ago a few mates and I were at a karaoke in a pub and a load of foreign students came in. None of them could really speak English, so whenever someone finished a song, we managed to make the students think expletives were encouragement and by the end of the night most of them were shouting 'w*nker' and 'sh*t' and such like at singers exiting the stage, much to their bemusement. Not big or clever, of course, but it seemed it at the time.
Alex321
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It was genuine - happened in 2008, but was quickly taken down.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7702913.stm
