oldhouseman
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I want to meet this waiter.
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toggleswitch2
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Imagine answering the phone in this place.......
There is a restaurant of this name (linkie) in NYC's Chinatown along Canal Street.
I hear you just can't beat their meats.
I wonder if it's a related chain. Notice the city's name, BTW
Ida know, after having a Chinese Egg Roll, doesn't one get hungry for another in just an hour or so?
There is a restaurant of this name (linkie) in NYC's Chinatown along Canal Street.
I hear you just can't beat their meats.
I wonder if it's a related chain. Notice the city's name, BTW
Ida know, after having a Chinese Egg Roll, doesn't one get hungry for another in just an hour or so?
iheartmaytag
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True story with same name:
Several years ago I was working for a collection agency where we had automatic dialers. If anyone is not familiar with the auto dialers they dial numbers from a debtor file and when someone anwers it transfers the call to the next available collector. When the transfer is made there is about a two second delay before you get the informaton on your screen so you usually start with "Hello, may I speak to ________" by this time the debtor information has come up and you just read the name and continue with the call after you have identified the debtor."
This particular day the collector was so tied up in the converstion she wasn't paying attention to how it sounded as she was trying to get the debtor to ident. We were all dying on the floor as she kept saying.
"Are you Hung?"
"I asked you if your were Hung."
"Just tell me if you are Hung or not."
All activity on the collection floor stopped because we were crying and couldn't get our breath from laughing. She didn't realize what was going on until she term the call.
Several years ago I was working for a collection agency where we had automatic dialers. If anyone is not familiar with the auto dialers they dial numbers from a debtor file and when someone anwers it transfers the call to the next available collector. When the transfer is made there is about a two second delay before you get the informaton on your screen so you usually start with "Hello, may I speak to ________" by this time the debtor information has come up and you just read the name and continue with the call after you have identified the debtor."
This particular day the collector was so tied up in the converstion she wasn't paying attention to how it sounded as she was trying to get the debtor to ident. We were all dying on the floor as she kept saying.
"Are you Hung?"
"I asked you if your were Hung."
"Just tell me if you are Hung or not."
All activity on the collection floor stopped because we were crying and couldn't get our breath from laughing. She didn't realize what was going on until she term the call.
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True story. There i was in my accounting job where the part time older lady (sharp as a tack. refined, spohisticated, calssy) was doing some A/R (Debtors=> UK) collection calls.
She was discussing a question about a billing concern on an invoice. When she asked the person on the phone "Have I ever pulled it for you?" No one even thought it was funny. When the controller(comptroller) walked by he started chuckling and laughing and could not keep a straight face. So the caller was put on hold and she asked him "What's so funny?"
Well the head-honcho quoted her. You could hear the crickets chirping.... no one thought anything of it. Then they both got an evil grin on their faces and died laughing. We all eventually caught on. It is absolutely true. It's all much funnier when it is not intended to be funny.
She was discussing a question about a billing concern on an invoice. When she asked the person on the phone "Have I ever pulled it for you?" No one even thought it was funny. When the controller(comptroller) walked by he started chuckling and laughing and could not keep a straight face. So the caller was put on hold and she asked him "What's so funny?"
Well the head-honcho quoted her. You could hear the crickets chirping.... no one thought anything of it. Then they both got an evil grin on their faces and died laughing. We all eventually caught on. It is absolutely true. It's all much funnier when it is not intended to be funny.
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Some things don't translate well.
Reminds me of a story about a college speech/story in Spanish about the little bicho (fly).
The audience was dying laughing....and the Spaniard (from Spain) speaker had no idea why.
Apparently in that Spanish-speaking coutnry (outside of Spain) it was a slang term for the main male part.
Reminds me of a story about a college speech/story in Spanish about the little bicho (fly).
The audience was dying laughing....and the Spaniard (from Spain) speaker had no idea why.
Apparently in that Spanish-speaking coutnry (outside of Spain) it was a slang term for the main male part.
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Opening page with helicopter:
I'm watching "Deal" and I burst (die) laughing.
Mature woman:
Then htan tsibouki auto, htan kati alo.
It wasn't a (smoking) pipe, it was something else.
Can also mean
It wasn't (only) a BJ it was beyond belief /AMAZING!
At the end she says "take/make a pause/break ..(in the show) I cant take it anymore." and dies laughing hereself.
I'm watching "Deal" and I burst (die) laughing.
Mature woman:
Then htan tsibouki auto, htan kati alo.
It wasn't a (smoking) pipe, it was something else.
Can also mean
It wasn't (only) a BJ it was beyond belief /AMAZING!
At the end she says "take/make a pause/break ..(in the show) I cant take it anymore." and dies laughing hereself.
When I was a department supervisor for a bank, I did lots of interviewing for teller positions. Through the usual stack of applications, one caught my eye. I called the guy in for an interview and hired him almost immediately. He was plenty qualified for the entry-level position and he started a few days later. As usual, I walked him around to the other people in the department to introduce him and familiarize him with the functions of the area. Imagine my giddiness as I was able to say to each person: "I'd like you meet Mike Hunt."
Seriously, his given name was Michael Hunt but preferred to be called Mike. I don't know that he ever got it, but everyone else nearly dropped their teller stamps when I said his name. He turned out to be a great guy and everyone liked him.
Seriously, his given name was Michael Hunt but preferred to be called Mike. I don't know that he ever got it, but everyone else nearly dropped their teller stamps when I said his name. He turned out to be a great guy and everyone liked him.
I once knew a Hung Dang
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And I thought we invented "Mike Hunt" at my high school!
On a menu at my favorite East Flushing restaurant:
No joke:
"Fukking Fried Rice"(our waiter, who was young and hip thought this was funny when we pointed it out to him, but probably did nothing about it)
and on the bottom of their takeout menu:
"Come with rice"
Why do you think Silver Palace is my favorite Chinese Restaurant?
No joke:
"Fukking Fried Rice"(our waiter, who was young and hip thought this was funny when we pointed it out to him, but probably did nothing about it)
and on the bottom of their takeout menu:
"Come with rice"
Why do you think Silver Palace is my favorite Chinese Restaurant?
I worked in the admissions office of the local community college and teachers would come in and out during the course of the day or evening. It happened that one day, maybe it was Valentine's Day, one guy came in wearing a shirt with a giant heart design on the front. We were all working fairly quietly when one of my female co-workers working the counter warmly greeted this gentleman by saying, "Here comes a guy with a big heart on!"
As soon as she finished saying it, she gasped and ran back to the file room in embarassment as we all remained busted up laughing for a while.
As soon as she finished saying it, she gasped and ran back to the file room in embarassment as we all remained busted up laughing for a while.
whirlcool
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We have a restaurant here in Houston named "Fu Kim". Jay Leno had it on his talk show in that part of the show where he shows strange signs. He just said "I ain't gonna touch that one!"
iheartmaytag
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I needed to add to the story
The Hung in my story was actually Hung Doc Dong.
I also had a debor one time Mi T. Ho. I am not sure if she were like a super HO.
The Hung in my story was actually Hung Doc Dong.
I also had a debor one time Mi T. Ho. I am not sure if she were like a super HO.
pturo
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The DEC officer for Onondaga County is honestly named Richard Headd and likes to be called Dick. I have actually been pulled over on my boat by Dick Headd.
I can't imagine what his parents were thinking in 1957 or so when they named baby Headd.
I can't imagine what his parents were thinking in 1957 or so when they named baby Headd.
iheartmaytag
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Forgive me for continuing to hijack your thread
But since I can't stop myself.
Speaking of names. Bill Lear, the founder of Lear Jet has a daughter named Crysta Shanda (Yupp) Lear.
I also had a customer one time that I must first point out had never hooked up voltage to the bulb so it wasn't only dim, it was off. Anyway, she named her daughter Syphallis (Syphllis). She thought the name sounded pretty--now imagine this poor girl going off to school. Once can only hope she can meet up with the Penicillin boy and rid herself of this world.
But since I can't stop myself.
Speaking of names. Bill Lear, the founder of Lear Jet has a daughter named Crysta Shanda (Yupp) Lear.
I also had a customer one time that I must first point out had never hooked up voltage to the bulb so it wasn't only dim, it was off. Anyway, she named her daughter Syphallis (Syphllis). She thought the name sounded pretty--now imagine this poor girl going off to school. Once can only hope she can meet up with the Penicillin boy and rid herself of this world.
whirlcool
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A very religious family I am acquainted with has a surname of Cherry. When they had a daughter, they named her Crystal Cherry.
Sounds like a perfect stripper name to me!
Sounds like a perfect stripper name to me!
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