So today we had a rather amusing day at work.  It started off with me receiving a tech mail from a customer who was having a problem with a virus.  Apparently it had infected his system so badly he "couldn't do anything" with his computer.  Just two short lines after that, his signature line bounced out at us: "I can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth me."

Except clear your computer of viruses apparently!

Anyway, later that day I was speaking with one of our sales reps, M, about the meeting she had that day.  Apparently there were some people there who were rather flamboyantly gay, at least enough for her to notice.  I guess it was on her mind or something, because when a customer asked who had bought out another company's product, she said "Queerswift" instead of "Clearswift."  Whoops!  She corrected herself, blushing like mad, and they finished the meeting.  They bought a large number of licenses from us so I guess it wasn't too big of a flub..but her nickname is now QS.

What amusing things have happened to you lately?

Edited to add:  Veda just got herself stuck in our bathroom in the dark.  Hand lotion + metal knobs + no lights = stuck Veda.  Its comedy day delight for me.

Hahaha.  You should have left her in there. ;)

I told Nali this already, but I was walking back to my office from the cafeteria this morning and I heard a guy whistling behind me.  It was one of the janitors whistling "Yankee Doodle Dandy".  Fine.  I giggled and kept walking.  All of a sudden, he decides to burst into song, making up his own words to the song.

His version?  "Stuck a nickel on his head and called it pepperoni!"

damn near dropped my Snapple, I did.

Hee. I had my own version of your coworker's flub, Nalian. I was in a meeting with my very respected and very gay boss, and I was describing a nature-inspired trend I thought we should pursue... "You know, it's fruity..." horror sets in... "I mean, with the pineapples, and the cherries... and, you know, FRUIT! Real fruit!"

A funny picture

Another Funny Picture

I don't know whether to put this in "Dudes!..." or here. But this should put the fear of God in ya'. There's your boyfreind!

http://www.thedude.org/html/imageDetails413.html

YUCK!

OK, that was the most disturbing thing I've seen in a loong time, and I've seen some crazy stuff on this little screen.

Oh God, Nan. Are you trying to make me heave? Because you damn near succeeded. *retching noises*

Yeah, that's cruel and unusual. I'm reporting you to Amnesty International, Nan! And after I had to watch Giant Naked Guy in "Super Troopers," too...

I loved the iCar, though. I want one.

Hee!  I told Veda you would, too.

Have any of you ever seen the Pixies album cover for Live at the BBC?  It took me, like, 20 minutes to figure out what that was.

Aah! What's with you people and the hairy body parts pictures?

I'm still trying to choke down a box of Valentine's candy. These pics are not helping.

You know, I tend to like men hairer than most of my female friends, but, dude...I was getting sympathy hairballs just looking at that picture.

Yeah, you have to know all those whirly parts are caused by his wearing pants. Hee!

Oh, E, I can totally see you in that car. It's so cute!

No disgusting pictures of hairy naked men to share, but I got hit on by a teen-ager yesterday. My sister's girlfriend thought it was absolutely hilarious and proceeded to tell every single person we knew about my new "boyfriend." I thought he was maybe seventeen, but Suzanne thinks I'm being generous. She thought he looked more like fourteen. In either case, I was technically old enough to be his mother.

So our new host has apparently been having problems with fradulent accounts lately.  Being the proactive sort that he is, he calls us up saturday morning and talks to Veda to confirm she did indeed open the account and everything was cool.  The amusing part is that the credit card being used for payment is mine and in my name - Veda has absolutely no connection to it whatsoever.  So why talking to her about it made everything hunky dorey I'm not sure.

However everything with them has been wicked nifty so far, and they seem like a good bunch. :)

I hope this post isn't too long, but I had to share these with everyone.  Leeb, Heatherbelle, trifling_matter & I have had great fun over the past few days realising just how many of these applied to us!

Its a bit British flavoured, but you get the drift.

You know you're a child of the 80's when

1. Snap bracelets were always getting you in trouble at school.
2. Um Bongo, Um Bongo, They drink it in the Congo
3. You played with "My Little Ponies."
4. Friendship bracelets were ties that couldn't be broken.
5. You ever read Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, The Babysitters Club, Forever or Sweet Valley High.
6. You know all the words to "Ice Ice Baby".
7. You wanted to be on "Jim'll Fix It".
8. You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before he had plastic surgery.
9. You wore one of those slap-on wristbands at some point...or heaven forbid one of those T-shirts that changed colour with heat.
10. You had slouch socks and puff painted your own shirt at least once.
11. You know the profound meaning of "Wax on, Wax off".
12. You were upset when She-ra, Princess of Power and He-Man got cancelled.
13. You can remember watching Saved by the Bell
14. You remember Madonna in her cone stage.
15. You knew "The Artist" when he was humbly called "Prince."
16. You even wore fluorescent-neon clothing... (if you can call it clothing!)
17. Not only did you wear fluorescent-neon clothing, but they were mismatched with fingerless gloves and towelling socks.
18. You could break dance (ok, you wished you could)
19. You remember when Amiga was a state of the art video game system.
20. You remember M.C. Hammer.
21. You can still sing the rap to "Fresh Prince of Bel Air"....
22. You can remember when it was Jazzy Jeff and The fresh Princemand NOT just plain Will Smith!
23. You own any cassettes.
24. You carried your lunch to school in a Gremlins, ALF or ET
lunchbox.
25. You have ever pondered on why Smurfette was the ONLY female smurf.
26. My Little Pony, Gummy Bears and Transformers are familiar to you.
27. You ever had a Swatch Watch.
28. You actually spent countless hours trying to perfect "Care Bear stare."
29. You believed that "By the power of Greyskull, you HAD the
power!"
30. You spent hours in the basement building and re- building Lego cities.
31. Big wheels and BMX's were the way to go.
32. With your pink (or blue) portable tape player, you sang to
Kylie and Jason!
33. If you ever owned Polly Pocket or Micro Machines.
34. If you ever made Ken fall in love with Barbie.
35. You know what " Psyche" means.
36. Partying "like it's 1999" seemed SO far away.
37. You knew that Transformers were "more than meets the eye".
38. You wore a banana clip at some point during your youth.
39. You actually thought "Dirty Dancing" was a REALLY good film.
40. You were led to believe that in the year 2000 we'd all be
living in space.
41. You know what leg warmers are and probably had a pair.
42. You wore biker shorts underneath a short skirt and felt
stylish.
43. You had to change into play clothes after school.
44. You recorded songs off the radio with your boom box.
45. Somehow you still know all the words to songs played on VH1'sm"Big 80s"
46. Your arm was full of rubber bracelets.
47. You can still sing 1 to 12 from the Pinball machine song on
Sesame Street.
48. You wore those wide, colourful shoelaces.
49. You still don't like going in the sea because of Jaws.
50. You remember Now compilations that had the pig on the front cover.
51. You never questioned why the A-Team were always imprisoned in places that had sufficient tools to build an armoured tank.
52. Dungeons & Dragons was your favourite programme.
53. You've ever said "bright light, bright light" in a strange
high-pitched voice.
54. You fell out with friends during heated arguments about the relative merits of Matt & Luke.
55. Cerise pink, electric blue and banana yellow have ever featured in your wardrobe or make-up collection.
56. You ever did the top toggle of your coat up around your neck without having your arms in the sleeves, and you knew you looked like a superhero.
57. Your new winter coat was best used to demonstrate that your wings were like a shield of steel.
58. You still remember when the A-ha video was the pinnacle of modern technology and you can still sing all the words.
60. Your best party dress was either a ra-ra or puff-ball skirt.
61. You wondered why a popular kids TV programme told you to "Turn off your TV set and go and do something less boring instead".
62. You were shocked by the controversial plot lines in Degrassi Junior High.
63. You remember watching a house inhabited by a jester, a
pantomime horse and a woman who sneezed, and thinking that this was perfectly normal.
64. You tried to convince your Dad to fit a strip of red lights on the front of Capri so it looked like KITT.
65. You've ever seen a girl, a clown and noughts and crosses on your TV.
66. You've ever had more than 10 sweets in a 10p mix-up.
67. You hid behind the sofa whenever you heard the word
"Exterminate!".
68. You could have got away with it if it wasn't for those meddling kids.
69. (Girls) You owned a pair of Pixie boots, generally worn with leg warmers.
70. (Boys) You owned a pair of pale grey slip-ons, generally wornmwith white towelling socks.
71. Ooh, you could crush a grape!
72. You've ever held a chicken in the air or stuck a deckchair up your nose.
73. You wore legwarmers & tried to do the splits while jumping in the air while singing you were going to live forever.
74. You remember Fingermouse and Dangermouse (not forgetting his trusty sidekick Penfold!)
75. Trains in Wales went "Pshh-t-cuf, pshh-t-cuf, pshh-t-cuf,
pshh-t-cuf, pshh-t-cuf".
76. You know all the words to "Hey Mickey" (well, nobody knows past the first verse anyway).
77. You remembered Look In magazine, and when it was only 20p and Monster Munch when they were 10p.
78. Your best mate had a Soda Stream at home and you were jealous.
77. Any elderly Scottish lady sounds like Supergran
78. You remember crying on the beach building sandcastles in the rain.
79. Hide and seek in the park, the corner shop, Hopscotch,
butterscotch, skipping, handstands, football in the park/street, British Bulldog, Beano, Twinkle, Hula Hoops, jumping in enormous puddles and building dams.
80. When 'Computer' Tennis, Pac-Man and Donkey-Kong ruled
81. You remember hearing the tune then running out to buy an ice cream cone on a warm summer night - 99's, screwballs or a cider lolly.
82. You got up extra early, especially to watch Saturday Morning cartoons.
83. You were occasionally allowed to stay up late for Howard's Way, Dallas, Dynasty or Minder.
84. Running till you were out of breath. Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt. Using the bed as a trampoline. Pillow fights.
85. Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down made you have a fit of the giggles, being tired from playing.
86. Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
87. It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.
88. You didn't sleep a wink on Christmas Eve.
89. You remember when 25p was decent pocket money and you'd reach into a muddy gutter for 10p.
90. Important decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo."
91. Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better and taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable aspirin.
92. Abilities were discovered because of a "double-dare".
93. Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors.

Heee!  Rentaghost.  I loved that programme.  You wouldn't belive the discussion's we've had about this list.  I may have to put it up on my site.  Do ya mind, whoever sent it first?

Bwa ha ha!
Oh, and I'll raise you "That's too orangey for crows, it's just for me and mah dawg."


I have a T-shirt with this picture.

I saw something about the latest Hits album, no 52 or something, the other day and thought, hmm, I remember when Hits 1 came out and everyone said 'oh, that's just a cheap rip-off of Now That's What I Call Music'.  And even worse, I remember the old Top of the Pops albums with girls in bikinis on the front.  I had one with Oliver's Army on it.

Oh, and I also had (blushes) a banner on my bedroom wall, above my bed, no less, which proclaimed 'Frankie Say: Welcome To The Pleasuredome'.  My mother made me take it down.  I had no idea why it was inappropriate (blushes some more).

Hee! Thanks for posting that, that list cracked me up. It's missing one of my favourite 80s cartoons, though - Willo the Wisp. I used to love Evil Edna.

Sigh. The 80s. Time of fashion disasters. I had a shell suit. And jeans with patches sewn on - luminous patches! The horror!

There was an American version of that circulating that rung more bells with me, but this still had a lot of familiar ones.

And, people, I still think "Dirty Dancing" was a really good movie.

So do I!!  So do I!!!

Yes, Dirty Dancing is a movie I still enjoy, but I'm not quite as obesessed with it as I was when I was little.  I can still remember being desperate to watch it and not being allowed because I was too young!

Hands up if you also learned the dances and tried to do the lift with your friends whenever you were in the water.

You have no idea. Being that we spent our summers in a bungalow colony in the Catskills, we reenacted not only the lifts but pretty much everything else... most of us could do all the moves to the Sylvia and Mickey song, while lip-synching.

See, this is where the age difference comes in.  For me it was all about Grease and The Kids From Fame.

Dude, we're the same age.

We did "Grease" too. And "Annie"... and that one was on the stage of the casino, with costumes and everything. Being the oldest, I was forced to be Miss Hannigan.

But I feel older.  It's the weather.

Miss Hannigan?  That's way the best part.  Little girls ...

Gah. Dirty Dancing is soooo not a good movie. Didn't think so at the time, don't think so now. But then I hated Grease as well. I remember seeing Grease 2 on a flight from Sydney to LA. My god that was a long flight.

Oh well, I'm still a child of the Eighties even I can't claim those.

Is so, is so! I carried a watermelon.

And you're aware that "Grease" and "Grease 2" are two different movies, right?

Actually, "Grease" is all well and good on a silly level, but I wouldn't say that it's actually a good movie. "Dirty Dancing," on the other hand...

Can I tell the difference between Michelle Pfeiffer and Olivia Newton-John. I think so.

Strangely I remember liking Footloose at the time and that has to be at least as bad as Dirty Dancing. Though at least it didn't have that song.

I adored Grease.  Grease II, however, is a bad, bad movie that has moments of hilarity - to wit, as yet unfamous Michelle Pfeiffer giving her all as she simpers that she wants a 'coo-oo-oo-ool rider'.  Have never quite taken her seriously since despite all her touting for Oscars.

Dirty Dancing kinda passed me by.  I saw it a few years ago, don't remember much.  Its fundamental flaw seemed to be a lack of hunk.  Not so crazy 'bout Swayze.

(Topic?  What topic?!)

Swayze was the sweatiest man of the 80s.  He could have stopped droughts in Africa.  Not too attractive!

You're all short and insane.

Grease 2 is memorable I think, for taking the artistic risk of having the cool kids bowl.  I mean, really?  Bowl?  Really?

Footloose so totally rocks my world.  But, you know, raging Kevin Bacon crush, so maybe I'm biased.  There's nothing like watching Chris Penn dance with an impish blonde child to the strains of "Let's Hear it For the Boy".    And, you know, John Lithgow and Dianne Wiest are so very good.

Funny thing, y0:

I work at a Catholic school (damnit, that's not the funny part) and sometimes I help them when they're having computer issues.  So today I'm sitting in the convent working on the computer and I look over at a bulletin board on the wall.  There are pictures of this girl in these skimpy outfits posing all sexy-like.  I blink and take a closer look, they were the x10 spy camera ads that were at the bottom of the screen when they printed out some e-mail messages from their hotmail account.

Speaking of hotmail and the convent... Very weird experience I had a while back: Helping a nun clean 100s of spam porn ads from her e-mail.
"Oh, I heard about this.  I think it is a virus."
"Umm... maybe."

Heh. A few weeks ago a group of us had dinner round at a friends house. Dinner turned into a vodka fuelled drinking game involving dares. Guess who had to run up and down her friend's street with a pretend sword, yelling the above. Ahem.


This was my favorite song of the 80's people. Do not mock A-ha. It's also my ringtone (although soon to be replaced by the Fraggle Rock tune. Hee!)

Fraggle Rock is one of my ringtones as well (I think).  I also have Dogtanian for one of my best freinds.  I'm an 80's freak.  If you want Poppyjen, I'll send them to you (you do have a Nokia, don't you?)

Cheers, but it's ok. I've got the Fraggle one and I dont really remember the Dogtanian one. I have found a good site though with free tones and logos. Me going to mention it in the Webloq now...

Source

Awww!


My mum usually tapes TV shows for me when I'm at Uni, but I've been home the last 2 weeks so I've just been watching them. Last week I put Dark Angel on (shut up) and my mum watched it as well. Half way through she pipes up with, "I've not seen Angel yet. Where is he?"
She'd been taping it (but not watching) for weeks, thinking it was another Buffy spin off about Angel's un-life before the curse, ie when Angel was 'dark'. It was actually pretty logical for her. Then she decided she'd come up with a really good idea for a new show.

Aww Bless.

Do wrongly interpreted comments count?  Cos if they do, I have a great (innudendo laden) one from last night.  I warn you now, it's crude.

I'd totally watch your mom's show, Poppy.  Heh.

I think she would as well. I'm steadily drawing her in to the Buffyverse! She watches it when I'm not there now. Mwah ha haaa!

That's when you know it's all over.  Like the day Jay IM'ed me to tell me he watched Angel that night and wanted to ask me about some things that had happened.  It's all a downward spiral from there.

I get constant e-mails from my Dad's partner who relies on me to explain things happening on Buffy or Angel.  She's a big fan, but doesn't have a good memory, so every week I have to update her.

Hee!  I find that amusing.  My parents don't watch it however.  Although when my Dad came to pick me up from Uni, he sat down to watch 'The Gift'/ 'No place like Pltz Grb' double-whammy.  I got misty eyed -  my last night at uni and I was watching sad stuff.  *Sniff*

Of course.

Is that "Of course wrongly interpreted comments count" or "Of course it's crude"?

Actually, knowing Heatherbelle it could be either.  ;)

Charmed, I'm sure.

ANd it was a bit of both.

I went out for a meal with my family last friday (Mum's BDay), so it was me, my brother and my parents.  st of the meal, we'd been making crude comments -  ie deliberately twisting the meanings.  They were all getting tipsy, I wasn't as I was the designated driver.

Anyway, I'm eating my dessert, which was this Indian Icecream thing (Kulfi, I think it was called.  Very nice).  It was roughly cone shaped.  As I'm trying to eat it, it went kinda sideways, so I just carried on eating it that way round.  My Mum looks across, and says innocently 'Aren't you supposed to eat from the top'. Bearing in mind the level on the conversation, my mind shot straight to the gutter.  I nearly choked on the mouthful that I had.  I had tears streaming down my face.  Then I felt ashamed for having such a dirty mind.

I don't know how Leeb can type that with a straight face - she was sitting there sniggering at 'Something Blue' just as much as I was when we started thinking about what they were saying....