Any good jokes ... ?

[tyred]

 

[Chris S]

 

[Gwylan]

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There was a time when a spray of deodorant was known as a Belgian shower in my office. Travelling on the Metro in the rush hour was an real odour ordeal or adventure. But earthy, that was for sure. That was almost 40 years ago. Now you get Lynxed or worse.

 

[tyred]

 

[sheddy]

What borders on stupidity ?

Mexico and Canada

 

[Toshiba Boy]

 

[tyred]

 

[craigwend]

 

[postman]

There was a time when a spray of deodorant was known as a Belgian shower in my office. Travelling on the Metro in the rush hour was an real odour ordeal or adventure. But earthy, that was for sure. That was almost 40 years ago. Now you get Lynxed or worse.

You want to ride on any bus coming past St Jims hospital here in Leeds.Oh boy.

 

[Profpointy]

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I think I've posted before a story my pal had when he was an engineering manager at BT. They needed some conduit for a project so he duly order "12 metres" of it. Turned out he'd ordered 12 "lots" each consisting of a 20 pieces of 10m conduit (or whatever it was) which eded up as two truck loads. It seems you ordered items from "the price book" which ironically didn't list the price, so he had no idea anything was wrong until the stuff arrived. It all got used up over the next 7 years apparently

At in a related story from him, someone had mistakenly ordered 14 metres of 200 way cable rather than the other way round. It took ages to arrive as it had to be specially made include a one-off extra-large drum to put it on, as the thing was like an elephant's trunk.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Used to manage a theatre, including the bars. Fell out with the director and moved on but not before ordering a very expensive brandy and making sure it was opened for his customary post-show brandy and coke.

£2400 a bottle in 1995.

 

[tyred]

I think I've posted before a story my pal had when he was an engineering manager at BT. They needed some conduit for a project so he duly order "12 metres" of it. Turned out he'd ordered 12 "lots" each consisting of a 20 pieces of 10m conduit which eded up as two truck loads. It seems you ordered items from "the price book" which ironically didn't list the price, so he had no idea anything was wrong until the stuff arrived. It all got used up over the next 7 years apparently

At in a related story from him, someone had mistakenly ordered 5 metres of 200 way cable rather than the other way round. It took ages to arrive as it had to be specially made include a one-off extra-large drum to put it on, as the thing was like an elephant's trunk.

A while back, my mum asked me to look at her iron which had stopped working. I diagnosed a knackered thermal cut-out switch and ordered one from eBay. Turned out I had actually ordered a box of 20 without realising!

It didn't really matter as they were cheap enough, but shows how easy it actually is to make a mistake when placing an order.

If I ever need to fix another Russell-Hobbs steam iron, I will have the parts!

 

[mistyoptic]

 

[tyred]

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[Gwylan]

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Neatly cropped earth a nice touch