It’s “hear, hear!” It’s the equivalent of the French Oyez, oyez!, from the archaic verb ouir, to hear.
My boss was on a call to customer service today:
Wow - dumb as a box of rocks scarcely covers this one.
Agreed - the annual National Parks pass is one heck of a bargain.
At least it wasn’t as bad as that Mad About You where Paul and pal apologize for thinking the heavy person was pregnant and the person says “You think I’m a woman?!”
As for the national parks pass, $80 is overpriced? I’m almost appalled that my parents have lifetime passes for $10. They hit quite a few parks per year-- $10 is almost offensively low.
yes.
That reads two completely different ways depending on the gender of your boss.
Ahhh yes, one I heard yesterday – “Well, you have 102 pounds of merchandise on this order, that’s why it’s so heavy.” From one of my least favorite cow-orkers to a customer. No, you don’t say? I am sure she meant to say “that’s why it’s (the shipping) is so expensive” but she never caught herself, and apparently the customer didn’t either. Says something about the mental acuity of our customers, no?
I’m pretty sure that’s the point.
Wow! How did they get that?
(Ah, checking the NPS website, it’s the Senior Pass for 62+)
I see park fees being similar to the cost of a gym membership. You get our money’s worth if you’re a regular user. If I pay $55 a month for the gym. If I go only once a month, that a 55-dollar workout! :eek: If I got three times a week, it’s less than $5 a visit.
$80 a year is more than reasonable to me for the amount of hiking, climbing, camping, kayaking etc. that I do in a single year (compared to $55 a month so I can access squash courts).
High school math class. My memory of all things high school math is foggy, so please forgive my poor description. I clearly remember the idiotic comment, tho.
We were learning about functions, and as I recall there is something termed a “vertical line test” which determines if a particular line* is a function or not. The idea is that you have a graph (with X-Y axes) with your line on it, and if there’s any place where you could put a vertical line and have it cross the line more than once, then it’s not a function. As illustration, a sine wave is a function, because anywhere you put a vertical line it will only intersect the wave once. A circle is not a function because you could put a vertical line through the middle and it would intersect twice.
So my friend (never good at math, but always very keen to learn) put up her hand and said “You can also do the vertical line test the other way, horizontally, right?”
Fortunately she realized immediately her idiocy. Unfortunately I’m not sure that some of the other students did …
*sorry, can’t remember if this is the appropriate word … hopefully it’s clear from the context
If that’s your idea of idiocy, you travel in more rarified circles than I.
I went to the gym last night and after a good cardio workout I decided one of those health shakes would be tasty so after the lady makes it for me she turns and quite seriously asks if I want it toped with whipped cream. I thought this was the dumbest thing ever then as I was leaving I saw two guys drinking their protein shakes with whipped cream.
I hit the gas station after that and two girls were filling up on the street side of the station. One of which reached into her coat to grab a lighter and some cigarettes. Her friend pointed out that they were at a gas station so the girl backed two feet away from the car and commenced smoking.
As long as no one else is around, it’s a self-correcting problem!
I think her point is that a horizontal line isn’t vertical.
And yet, if you turn the paper 90 degrees, the horizontal line magically becomes a vertical one!
I forgot this one.
scene: High School Social Studies Summer School class.
The players: dumb jock, instructor, myself as narrator
We are watching, for some reason “The Day After”. A movie, for those of you that don’t know, that is all about a nuclear exchange between the US and the USSR in the mid 80’s. It takes place in and around Kansas City.
Dumb jock had been sleeping during the movie. Let’s open our scene…
Dumb Jock awakens, wipes drool from his chin, and blearily looks at the TV for a few moments. He sits up, and addresses the instructor.
Jock: Is this based on a true story?
Instructor: (long pause) Yes. Kansas City was destroyed in a nuclear attack in the 80’s. You may have slept through it.
Sadly, the instructor lost points, by describing the fall out ash that fell soon after the attack as the beginning of “Nuclear Winter”.
Okay, I’ll tell this one on myself–I was having breakfast with a friend of mine who was on leave from Iraq and I asked him what the weather was like, specifically the temperature range and he said “About 65 during the day, 27 at night” and before I could even think I blurted out “Fahrenheit or Celsius?” :smack: Fortunately he likes me a lot so he only razzed me for a minute or two…
The first time I met Ivylad’s father, he was going on and on about how great the Ohio State Buckeyes were.
“Oh yeah?” sez pert 19-year-old ivylass. "If they’re so good, how come they’ve never been to the Super Bowl?’’
:smack:
I still get razzed about that, more than 20 years later.
Oh, just remembered one I did. I was playing Monopoly with two other people. (In my defense, it was Monopoly. That game can take it out of anybody. And I realized my mistake.) I was owed $250 in rent. My friend handed me 2 $100 bills and 1 $50 bill. First stupid moment: I miscounted it, somehow. Second stupid moment: We got in an argument.
Friend: “It’s right there!”
Me: “But there’s only $150 here! SEE? Look: [counts out money] 100! 100! 50! One hundred and fifty.”
Friends look at me like I’m nuts.
Me: “oh…sorry.”
Friends erupt in laughter.