# Nobody got my witty one-liner at work today **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 26, 2010, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-got-my-witty-one-liner-at-work-today/540797 "2010-05-26T04:10:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-got-my-witty-one-liner-at-work-today/540797/61 "2010-05-27T23:40:32Z")
> [@Salem](#): > > If it makes you feel any better, had I been there, I would have looked around the room and said, “Don’t bother, they’re here.” I just want to say, I did literally burst out laughing when I read that. Superb. And yes. **Alessan** ’s dad rules. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-got-my-witty-one-liner-at-work-today/540797/62 "2010-05-28T00:36:59Z")
Had another of us been in the room, s/he would have responded, “Don’t bother, they’re here.” ---
**Author:** ![Perciful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Perciful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Perciful)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-got-my-witty-one-liner-at-work-today/540797/63 "2010-05-28T00:51:35Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > Had another of us been in the room, s/he would have responded, “Don’t bother, they’re here.” Above or “There must be clowns”… I would have laughed but I remember that song well. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-got-my-witty-one-liner-at-work-today/540797/64 "2010-05-28T05:25:50Z")
So where are they? ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-got-my-witty-one-liner-at-work-today/540797/65 "2010-05-28T05:59:46Z")
They’ll be along. Maybe next year. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-got-my-witty-one-liner-at-work-today/540797/66 "2010-05-28T06:31:56Z")
I was in the hospital a few years ago and my roommate was a somewhat cranky elderly gentlemen. One morning, the nurse was making her initial rounds and the old gent asked her for a cup of coffee. She politely replied there was no fresh coffee at the nurses’ station, and since she had just started her shift, she had to check in on all of her patients first, but if he would be patient, she would make a pot of coffee and bring him a cup as soon as she was able. He then said, “I want to check out.” Without missing a beat, she replied, “This is the Hotel California. You can check out, but you can’t leave.” For what it was worth, although it went completely over the old man’s head, I appreciated it. ---
**Author:** ![Marine\_One](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marine_one/32/3461_2.png) [@Marine\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marine_One)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-got-my-witty-one-liner-at-work-today/540797/67 "2010-05-28T14:24:28Z")
When someone tells me about a copier that has a paper jam, I say: “I always put paper jam on my pencil muffins.” Blank stares. Cricket sounds. “What??” ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-got-my-witty-one-liner-at-work-today/540797/68 "2010-05-28T19:49:58Z")
Two pages and no one has mentioned that this show is _running on Broadway right now_? For those of you who don’t know it (it’s called _A Little Night Music_), Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury are in it through June 20, so if you’re in the New York area, check it out. ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-got-my-witty-one-liner-at-work-today/540797/69 "2010-05-29T11:54:56Z")
Heh. We were at dinner tonight at a place that calls your ticket number when your dinner is ready. Our ticket was #400. By the time it was called, I’d finished the first of three margaritas I allot myself for every other Saturday night, so I sent my husband up to get me another. (Yes, my life IS that sad, and I am that much of a control freak.) The waiter yelled, “404! Number 404!” and my husband deadpanned, “Sorry, dinner not found.” Nobody got it. Nobody. I heard it because I was sitting very close and I laughed so hard people stared at me. Then we spent a while quoting the old 404 poem that went around back in the day (“Give me back my free hardcore!”). Good times. I married the perfect guy for me, apparently. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-got-my-witty-one-liner-at-work-today/540797/70 "2010-05-29T15:58:38Z")
> [@DooWahDiddy](#): > > Two pages and no one has mentioned that this show is _running on Broadway right now_? For those of you who don’t know it (it’s called _A Little Night Music_), Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury are in it through June 20, so if you’re in the New York area, check it out. Since we’re going there, an 80th-year [tribute](http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/reviews/04-2010/sondheim-on-sondheim_26701.html) to Sondheim is also up at Studio 54, featuring videotape of him talking about his career and Barbara Cook, Tom Wopat, Vanessa Williams, Norm Lewis, Leslie Kritzer, Euan Morton, Erin Mackey, and Matthew Scott singing his songs as illustration/counterpoint. ---
**Author:** ![Wolverine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@Wolverine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolverine)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-got-my-witty-one-liner-at-work-today/540797/71 "2010-05-29T17:41:40Z")
> [@Shadez](#): > > As with most things in life, I get the joke… > > …only because the Simpsons [spoofed it](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi6vAXv0KrA). Those in the Simpsons generation, unite! Another one that got the Simpsons reference but not the original. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2010, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-got-my-witty-one-liner-at-work-today/540797/72 "2010-05-30T05:56:43Z")
> [@Salem](#): > > If it makes you feel any better, had I been there, I would have looked around the room and said, “Don’t bother, they’re here.” Now _that_’s what I call a _big top_ . . . [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-got-my-witty-one-liner-at-work-today/540797.md?page=3)