Ote-Nay to my O-Cay Orker-Way

The BBQ Pit
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I just have to share this, because it’s the stupidest thing I’ve heard all year:

I’m walking past our (very small) lunch room and I hear the receptionist say to one of the secretaries, about me, “That irt-skay makes her ook-lay at-fay.”

Now, really. Is there anyone on the English speaking part of the earth that does not understand Pig Latin? Does our dumb-as-a-box-of-hair receptionist think that it is such an complex foreign language that no one could possibly understand it? Does she think there’s anyone so stupid they’d have to stand there and go “Irt-skay? At-fay? What the heck does that mean? What is that, Spanish? Urdu? Sanskrit?”

I should have said “If I look at-fay, I can wear a different irt-skay omorrow-tay, but you’ll still be umb-as-a-box-of-hair-day.” (With apologies to Inston-Way Urchhill-Chay.)

The bright side is that I was so amused by the display of what a pinhead she is that I wasn’t even irked by the “at-fay” comment. (Which I can’t be too offended by anyway because, lets face it, I’m not inny-skay.) But tell me the truth:

Do I look at-fay in this? :slight_smile:

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Ooking-lay ard-hay or-fay an eneral-Gay estion-Quay.

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Tell your boss you’re being arrassed-hay. Because you areway.

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Psst! Odi-jay as a(n?) itigator-lay, so I suspect she can take of herself. If you ow-knay what I ean-may.

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:o

My God! I’ve posted this in a wrong forum! What a newbie-ish faux pas. I’m so embarrassed; I feel like I’ve farted in church.

If a kindly MODERATOR! would move this to the It-Pay, I’d be obliged.

[sub]Boy is my face red.[/sub]

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I just can’t convince myself to believe that Julius Caesar spoke like that.

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JC didn’t talk like that, his PIGS did. Don’t you know anything???

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My parents used to discuss my punishment as a child by speaking this way. I didn’t even know what it was called - all I knew was that they thought I couldn’t understand them, so I went on letting them think that.

“ould-shay e-way round-gay im-hay?”

“o-nay, ake-may im-hay ake-ray the eaves-lay”

Now I see them doing it with my brother’s kids. Judging from the way they stare into space and concentrate just like I did, I think they already have it figured out…

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A clerk in a store started talking to my mom in FLUENT pig latin once, to tell her about an act a coworker of hers did that she thought was rude.

My mother was utterly and completely flabbergasted.

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This just isn’t your month is it Jodi?

But I wonder how you can tell they were talking about you? Are you the only other female in the firm? I know you mentioned secretaries plural but it would be presumptuous of me to assume that they are female.

And were you wearing horizontal stripes?

Actually, if they were definitely talking about you and you claim to be not skinny , the positive view is that it takes a particular skirt to make you look fat.

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Of course you don’t look fat in this. I do.

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Thank you, MAGIC. Eight other posters don’t have the sense to answer a “Do I look fat in this?” with a “Heck no!”

:wink:

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I think you should have turned around and given them a really hard glare. After all, that kind of crap is totally unprofessional.

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You must say something to at least one of them in Pig Latin tomorrow, even if it’s just “ood-gay orning-may”. It’ll be so much fun. I wish I could be there.

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From the “I wonder why I don’t get many dates” department:

Q. Does this skirt make me look fat?
A. No, your ass makes you look fat.

Q. Does this skirt make me look fat?
A. Compared to what?

Q. Does this skirt make me look fat?
A. I’ve seen fatter.

Oh. Evidently, neither do I. :smiley:

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SUUUUURE this happened. You’re a professional business woman, and your coworker said this to you? This is so unprofessional that it’s just not something I believe. Didn’t happen, Potsy.

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Oh, look, he’s trying to get us riled. Behold, and I shall poke him with a stick.
Poke.

Poke.

Oh, it’s dead.

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Um, Jodi has been here for three years. YOU have been here what-a few hours?

Bite me.

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He’s in at least one other thread too. Shoo!

Oh, and you look wonderful in that, Jodi.

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I don’t know why people have to make nasty comments like that. But I know it doesn’t feel good, because some girl at work made a nasty comment about my clothes. Some quality issue she had a problem with, I believe. 1t made me have high school flashbacks, which fills me full of hate. I upposesay I eenay a ickerthay inskay.

That skirt looks fabulous on you and you wear it with style and elegance.