After 17 years in the corporate world, I now have a job (self-employed, in fact) where I don’t have to censor everything I say in pursuit of a good joke. It’s just me and my brother, so we can tell dirty jokes, make inappropriate comments, and just carry on in a way that would easily have gotten me disciplined if not fired from my former job for sexual harassment.
Our current laugh riots center around the old “That’s what she said!” routine… you know, adding those words after an otherwise innocent comment made by the other. It becomes a game of who can set up the other with the best line, and you lose points (well, not real points) if the other person sets you up with a line (purposely or inadvertently) and you don’t blurt out the required TWSS response.
The other day we were hanging a window, and as he was leveling it I was securing it by screwing through the nailing flange, which has a series of holes all around the perimeter of the window. I had put one screw in, but he decided that the window had to shift over a bit, so I backed it out and he shifted the window. Since he only moved it about 1/8 inch, part of the previous hole I drilled was still visible. So he said:
“It’ll be too loose now, Just pick another hole and drive it back in there.”
To which I was more than happy to offer the appropriate response.
Other good setups include:
- I need one about 10" long
- 6" just isn’t quite long enough
- just keep wiggling it back and forth until it slips in
- make sure you line it up first or you’ll have trouble getting it in
- that’s not where that belongs
- I prefer a straight one, but a little bit of a bow is OK if that’s all you got
et cetera, et cetera… trust me, it’s a laugh-a-minute.
So, what are your best TWSS set-up lines that you may or may not have been able to respond to because of a stuck up corporate culture that doesn’t appreciate a good joke?
Include context for the set-up line if necessary.