come on, people, surely you can’t possibly be so credulous as to believe that Spud’s lifeguard story could possibly be TRUE, do you? Did you fail to notice the second attempt at hilarity (no more successful than the first one, I admit) regarding the bus driver job?
I’m not saying it wasn’t a stupid thing to post – some parent whose kid drowned in a public pool might well see it and go ballistic – but TRUE? I thought you people were smarter than that.
Since you folks obviously know exactly what everyone finds funny or not, would you please hop over to the “expain Andy Kaufman” thread and set them all straight.
I got tired of the “I put cherry in the grape spot in the slushy machine” type of blunders and thought I would post something so absurd it would be obvious it was toung in cheek.
I was a lifeguard, and I can tell you that they take their job VERY seriously. Not only would they not laugh off something like this, they would have faced serious legal repercussions.
I even thought that some idjut might actually take it seriously… so I threw in another “hilarious” incident with the implication that there were at least 28 deaths/injuries… surely NOONE would be that gullible.
::sigh::
Anyway, my sincere apology to anyone who is offended. I guess won’t post those blunders from when I worked as a surgeon, or that time in the nuclear power plant, or that little mix-up when I was a crossing guard, or that brief stint as an air traffic controller.
I saw the bus incident as a clear joke, but I just wasn’t sure about the first one. Neither was GuanoLad, apparently. Which took away my thought that it was my poor comprehension of the English language that had me wondering.
All’s clear now. Either I’m stupid, or Spud has no humour. Or a bit of both
Must be a cultural thing… notice both Coldfire and Guanolad are feriners I’m sure all the merkins thought it was hilarious. In fact my phone is ringing and I’m pretty sure it is Leno asking me to start writing jokes for him.
Seriously, if you haven’t yet… take a look at the Andy Kaufman thread and you will see just how diverse people’s opinions of what is or is not funny can be.
i used to work in the customer service department of a major health insurer in the south. My job was to answer questions about claims and benefits. One day I had a very irate customer on the line bitching because we denied his claim. I asked him to hold one moment because I wanted to check it out. (actually I just wanted a break!)after I pushed the hold button, I yelled over to my co-worker about and I quote"that ass-hole on my line".Well you guessed it, he was not on hold!!Somehow the phone did not work properly.He yelled and screamed for my supervisor,but since they didnt record the calls at that time, I denied it and just got slap on the wrist. I also verified benefits for some services that were not covered and the company had to eat several thousand dollars all because of me!! I cant believe I was not fired,but actually moved up into management but has since left to move around with my military husband.
Well, there was the time I was just learning about DOS wildcards. I had a good grip of the concept, but no clue of the power of wildcards. I was mass deleting files from a floppy (drive A), but was issuing the commands from a C:\ prompt. Instead of typing “del A:\c*." and erasing all files with the first character “c” from the floppy, I typed "del c.*”, deleting all files with first character “c” from the hard drive. Guess what character all the critical data files on the hard drive began with. 4 years worth of critical data erased. That is also the day I became proficient with Norton Utilities. Couldn’t restore all the files, but enough to keep my job.
Secondary lesson learned: never assume your boss has the sense to backup his hard drive.
The overwhelming majority of people have more than the average (mean) number of legs. – E. Grebenik
I’m sure all the merkins thought it was hilarious. In fact my phone is ringing and I’m pretty sure it is Leno asking me to start writing jokes for him.