# keep me busy till I get off work at 12:00 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 11, 2000, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-me-busy-till-i-get-off-work-at-12-00/21997 "2000-06-11T02:05:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tubagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b77776/32.png) [@tubagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tubagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2000, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-me-busy-till-i-get-off-work-at-12-00/21997/1 "2000-06-11T02:05:14Z")
**Please help me!!!** I have two hours left at work tonight and am terribly bored. Keep me occupied till then, please??? Please post replies or I might melt into a bored mass of gelatinous goo. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Anti\_Pro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Anti\_Pro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anti_Pro)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2000, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-me-busy-till-i-get-off-work-at-12-00/21997/2 "2000-06-11T02:09:41Z")
Oh dear, we can’t have you melting yourself now can we!?? Where are you working?? Whatcha doin’? ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2000, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-me-busy-till-i-get-off-work-at-12-00/21997/3 "2000-06-11T02:10:54Z")
Alright, I’ll bite. As you are getting married ( and subsequently laid. " Laid at last! Thank God I’m Laid at Last!) in a few weeks, tell us what your dress looks like and what your song that you dance to at the reception. ---
**Author:** ![tubagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b77776/32.png) [@tubagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tubagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2000, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-me-busy-till-i-get-off-work-at-12-00/21997/4 "2000-06-11T02:11:14Z")
I’m doing inbound phone work for an ‘undisclosed’ compnay in Florida. it is a 24 hour line and I end up with the weekends, since I have been deemed as having no life. ---
**Author:** ![Anti\_Pro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Anti\_Pro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anti_Pro)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2000, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-me-busy-till-i-get-off-work-at-12-00/21997/5 "2000-06-11T02:17:25Z")
I think if I were you, \*\* tubagirl, \*\* I’d have much rather answered Shirley’s query than my boring one!! Sooooo, you’re a telemarketer. If that’s so, now I’ll have to be nicer, than just ‘sorry, not interested’ and hanging up right away!! 😃 Though, my personal favorite STILL is the one where they say, ‘Mrs. Wright, we are going to be in your neighborhood next week…’ and I chime in ‘oh, that’s okay, I don’t mind.’ and then hang up. It always cracks me up!! I KNOW, it doesn’t take THAT much to amuse the simple minds of the world, does it?? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tubagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b77776/32.png) [@tubagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tubagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2000, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-me-busy-till-i-get-off-work-at-12-00/21997/6 "2000-06-11T02:31:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\*Shirley Ujest- tell us what your dress looks like \*\* It is a big poofy princess style gown with a reaaaallly low neckline. At least I know after he sees that he’ll be wantin’ some…😉 > [@](#): > > \*\*Anti Pro- Sooooo, you’re a telemarketer. \*\* I am **NOT** a telemarketer!!! i am here to help the less knowledgeable with their electronical equipment. As in, the one you are typing now… only different… ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2000, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-me-busy-till-i-get-off-work-at-12-00/21997/7 "2000-06-11T02:38:54Z")
Poor tubagirl! You can’t sink into a squishy mass now, w/ a wedding in the offing. “Bride In A Coma” doesn’t cut it. For entertainment, a friend went to a wedding last week. The groom passed– **boom!** –dead faint, right at the alter. (Nerves, heat, and a bit too much party the night before.) The bride calmly said, “he isn’t getting out it _that_ easily!”, everyone laughed, he was revived and the wedding went off w/o a hitch. (And yes, the groom was very happy; nerves just got to him. Even he was laughing about it later.) Veb ---
**Author:** ![Anti\_Pro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Anti\_Pro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anti_Pro)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2000, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-me-busy-till-i-get-off-work-at-12-00/21997/8 "2000-06-11T02:39:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > I am **NOT** a telemarketer!!! i am here to help the less knowledgeable with their electronical equipment. As in, the one you are typing now… only different… > \*\* Goodness! From your reaction, it’s either you hate telemarketers or you get asked that question a lot! Take a deep breath, sweetie, I wouldn’t want you to hyperventilate when you still have a few more hours to go before twelve, unless you’re further out west than we are here in Atlanta. Your dress sounds very pretty. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SSgtBaloo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@SSgtBaloo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSgtBaloo)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2000, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-me-busy-till-i-get-off-work-at-12-00/21997/9 "2000-06-11T02:40:14Z")
Gad! No wonder you’re seeking relief from the madness. ~~Baloo ---
**Author:** ![tubagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b77776/32.png) [@tubagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tubagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2000, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-me-busy-till-i-get-off-work-at-12-00/21997/10 "2000-06-11T02:50:26Z")
I forgot to take off the BOLD signals at the end of anti pro’s quote. Yes technical support it is for me… As for the wedding, My fiance Chris is a crier. He will start crying from the first moment he sees me, until we make it to the rather informal ceremony. We are getting married on the beach down here in Florida. Everyone is mandatorily dicated to take off there shoes. it will be done at dusk surrounded by tiki torches. ALL the men at the wedding MUST wear hawian shirts and the women whatever they want. Afterwards, we are driving to my parents house for champagne and wedding cake. That is it… We ended up only inviting immediate family and very close friends. His mother is having a total fit about it too. They have 50+ relatives in the area. …those native floridians, a prolific bunch they are… ---
**Author:** ![Imthecowgodmoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Imthecowgodmoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imthecowgodmoo)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2000, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-me-busy-till-i-get-off-work-at-12-00/21997/11 "2000-06-11T02:57:47Z")
Here is something to keep you occupied… [Online Karaoke!](http://www.bored.com/karaoke/pop.htm) ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2000, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-me-busy-till-i-get-off-work-at-12-00/21997/12 "2000-06-11T03:00:11Z")
Your wedding sounds beautiful and _perfect_, tubagirl! Meaningful, simple and sincere. Best of all, no one will be so wrecked from choreographing the event that they miss the essentials. Your intended sounds like a sweetie. A guy who tears up at seeing his bride? ::envious sigh:: Veb ---
**Author:** ![tubagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b77776/32.png) [@tubagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tubagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2000, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-me-busy-till-i-get-off-work-at-12-00/21997/13 "2000-06-11T03:13:46Z")
I’m not aloud to have sound on my computer here at work thanks though imthecowgodmoo > [@](#): > > **TVeblen-A guy who tears up at seeing his bride?** I don’t know why women would rather have a guy who is arrogant and self-centered just because he has a sense of style and knows how to cut his hair… Every little computer dork (like my fiance) is dying to have a woman dress them and cut there hair. My fiance let me do a makeover on him and loved his new found style!!! Plus I got a guy who makes his life to worship me. He will be bawling as I go down that aisle because the nerves will finally catch up with him and the relief of seeing me appear will be to much for him. I’ll have pics from the wedding of the coursing tears down his face. **I Love HIM** ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2000, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-me-busy-till-i-get-off-work-at-12-00/21997/14 "2000-06-11T03:34:14Z")
\ ***tubagirl:** We ended up only inviting immediate family and very close friends. His mother is having a total fit about it too. They have 50+ relatives in the area. \* I hate to mention it, but my invite must’ve got lost in the mail. Could you email me the directions? :D:D:D ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2000, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-me-busy-till-i-get-off-work-at-12-00/21997/15 "2000-06-11T03:35:27Z")
Only 27 minutes to go… ---
**Author:** ![tubagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b77776/32.png) [@tubagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tubagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2000, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-me-busy-till-i-get-off-work-at-12-00/21997/16 "2000-06-11T03:59:21Z")
ONLY 4 MINUTES!!! ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2000, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-me-busy-till-i-get-off-work-at-12-00/21997/17 "2000-06-11T11:38:13Z")
“Once again, we was…too late” –“The Bishop”, Monty Python