# Strange Announcements

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-announcements/722223>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 11, 2015, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-announcements/722223 "2015-06-11T00:07:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Marion\_Wormer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Marion\_Wormer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marion_Wormer)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-announcements/722223/1 "2015-06-11T00:07:06Z")

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At Love Field today I heard this announcement:

“Bill Bingley, Please get to Gate two as quick as you can. We love you , but we will leave you.” said in a male voice that was very arch.

Have you heard any funny/odd announcements?

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**Author:** ![cwthree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-announcements/722223/2 "2015-06-11T00:22:04Z")

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At a huge book sale:

“Mrs. Smith, please meet your husband at the checkout. He’s been waiting a million years.”

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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-announcements/722223/3 "2015-06-11T01:58:09Z")

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I actually heard Michael Hunt paged once.

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**Author:** ![Marion\_Wormer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Marion\_Wormer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marion_Wormer)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-announcements/722223/4 "2015-06-11T02:38:46Z")

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Well, I heard Dick Hertz paged in a bar once as winner for a prize. A guy in my group just stood up and said, “That’s me.”

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**Author:** ![Marion\_Wormer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Marion\_Wormer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marion_Wormer)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-announcements/722223/5 "2015-06-12T22:28:38Z")

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Not a public announcement over a loudspeaker, but an overheard comment in a nursing home yesterday:

“You can’t sit there, because she’s dead, and you can’t sit there because she can’t come downstairs any more and takes her meals in her room, and you can’t sit there because that’s where I sit, so you have to sit there.”

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**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-announcements/722223/6 "2015-06-12T22:42:15Z")

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Some folks really don’t like change do they?

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**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2015, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-announcements/722223/7 "2015-06-14T03:49:07Z")

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> [@dropzone](#):
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> I actually heard Michael Hunt paged once.

Bond, James Bond. Please pick up a white courtesy phone. At Denver International Airport.

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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2015, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-announcements/722223/8 "2015-06-14T05:11:06Z")

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> [@Marion\_Wormer](#):
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> Not a public announcement over a loudspeaker, but an overheard comment in a nursing home yesterday:
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> “You can’t sit there, because she’s dead, and you can’t sit there because she can’t come downstairs any more and takes her meals in her room, and you can’t sit there because that’s where I sit, so you have to sit there.”

Residents or staff?

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**Author:** ![Marion\_Wormer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Marion\_Wormer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marion_Wormer)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2015, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-announcements/722223/9 "2015-06-14T13:47:34Z")

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> [@Nava](#):
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> Residents or staff?

Residents. (Thank goodness) 🙂