Overheard in a staff meeting this morning: "Explanation point"

[NewWaveChick1981]

:yoiks: This was in reference to needing an "exclamation point" at the end of a sentence. I thought I was hearing things, but she said it again twice. Supposedly this woman has a master's degree.

That's as bad as a former roommate calling ibuprofen "ibupropan" repeatedly... :(

[Bum Whisperer]

1. It's been my experience

that the higher the degree, the stupider the individual. I was smarter after pre-school than after college. :o)

[InternalDialogue]

2. You mean "supposably" she has a master's degree.

:eyes:

[Richardo]

4. Yes. Her graduate studies came to "fruitation"

That's one I heard at the office :eyes:

[Richardo]

6. "Theory-etically" she has an M.A.

The owner (!) of a consulting firm I worked for said this all the time. I wondered how ANY client would trust his advice.

[MorningGlow]

8. No no

That's "supposanably"--let's get that straight!

[Crazy Dave]

23. Sposedly

;)

[_testify_]

3. That's nothing.

A co-worker asked me how eating cold turkey helped people quit smoking.

[Book Lover]

12. Oh my lack-of-god - go on stage with that one!

:rofl:

[cwydro]

17. That is fricking

hilarious.:rofl:

[Left Is Write]

20. Oh....my....

:rofl:

[jilln]

33. One of my coworkers asked me to bring her the blurry fax I received from her

so she could refax it to me. She said it was her only copy.

I thought about telling her that what she used to fax the first time could also be used, but it seemed simpler to just do as she asked.

[trof]

43. It's the ferrymoans.

I'm pretty sure.
;-)

[nodular]

62. LOL!

[JackBeck]

5. I work with someone who says:

"Pacific" instead of "specific".

[InternalDialogue]

7. They're just being laxadaisical.

At least they're using a real word -- you can work with that, then blame the ensuing confusion on their misused word.

[JackBeck]

10. I guess it's more bothersome when they say "pacifically".

My ears begin to hurt.

[Little Wing]

9. That's okay, I just saw a sign for a free pit bull terrier, it was "spadded"

[Left Is Write]

25. I've seen "spaded" used also. Poor animal!

[Quakerfriend]

11. Thanks for giving me the giggles! How about this one:

I "axed" her to....

:think:

[Left Is Write]

27. I axed her to get me some expresso. I exspecially wanted milk, ex cetera.

[SPKrazy]

13. Stasticics, Or Councilor, blah blah blah

hey, it doesn't take much to get a master's degree apparently

they gave one to me

:rofl:

[Bunny]

14. Isn't that really just a mute point?

:silly:

[Richardo]

15. A classic!

We had a guy at a former company I worked for who thought a bunch of storm-tossed damage was 'derbis'.

"Wow, that was a powerful storm - look at all that derbis."

It took me quite a few minutes before I realized he meant 'debris'. :eyes:

[fudge stripe cookays]

54. An old man who used to work with me...

did that one better.

He saw a spectator on the evening news being interviewed about a tornado that had hit, and the guy actually got captured on camera using that expression! How embarrassing is that?

[ChickMagic]

16. That reminds me of the willies I got...

when (back in the Lotus 123 days) a woman was trying to explain
the "grafts".

[Oeditpus Rex]

18. I used to know a guy who thought 'panty hose'

was plural.

One pair = panty ho.

[Left Is Write]

24. Oh....my....

:rofl:


(That's the second time I've had a use for that response in this thread!)


My daughter used to think that about cheese (one piece = chee; two pieces = cheese), but she was only two or three at the time.

[Briarius]

60. That reminds me of my little bro

when he was about 3 or 4. We had forks with 3 tines and some with 4. So according to him, we had threeks and forks. :rofl:

[BarenakedLady]

29. Hiya Oedi!

Where have you been hiding your fine self?

:hi: :hug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

34. Over by the vibrating cock rings

Didn't you see me? :shrug:

[BarenakedLady]

36. I must have missed you

I was concentrating on the rabbit vibrators....sorry.

[Left Is Write]

19. Yes, yes, you can have a Master's degree and still not know such basics.

She needs an explanation of exclamation.

[Pied Piper]

21. I had a college professor who "took things for granite"

The other one that kills me is when people pronounce "etc" as "ek-setra"

[Richardo]

26. There's a *lawyer* with a radio talk show here that says 'ludicroust'

:eyes:

[cwydro]

22. This is not quite the same thing

but years ago when my sis was much younger, she had to get something notarized. Finally called me in frustration - saying she had asked, but no one could tell her where to get a "Note of Republic". I still laugh at that.

[Richardo]

28. I put my Note of Republic in my Safety Deposit box

:D

[cwydro]

32. And THAT

is a very good place for it!:rofl:

[LanternWaste]

30. You shouldn't be

You shouldn't be casting asaparagus on this poor woman....

[bluethruandthru]

31. I think I have the winner...

My former assistant, a male, thought the 'hair down there' was called PUBLIC Hair!

:rofl:

[Critters2]

50. LOL!! nt

[Starbucks Anarchist]

52. For Paris Hilton, it is.

:hide:

[Strawman]

35. An explanation point helps get the message acrosst

[billyskank]

37. Duh. It's the point where you explain.

Dumb 'Chick. :loveya:

:P

[LaraMN]

38. The "explanation point": bastard cousin of

the "asterick," and the "queshun mark".

[ashling]

39. Physical Year

makes my teeth hurt to hear that one LOL

[Richardo]

40. Did your develop 'performa' income statements for the physical year?

That's another. :D

[Lady Effingbroke]

41. I have heard many people pronounce "tarpaulin" as "tarpoleon" - Napoleon's lost brother, perhaps?

:shrug:

[Calliope]

42. Many years ago, the chief of our department

sent a memo instructing us to mail our files in a "vanilla envelope."

[trof]

44. My late mother-in-law, bless her heart

was famous for her malapropisms.

"He's got somethin' up his arm." for somebody not on the up and up.
And everything was "in" the TeeVee.
Not on, "in".
Oh, and if it was in the TeeVee it was TRUE.
No question.

[lildreamer316]

45. Specific=Pacific.

Heard in court.
We tried so hard not to laugh.

[lildreamer316]

46. OH! I forgot! One of my HS teachers used to say "simular"

Swear to dog. She would even pronounce it slowly; and she definately had the "u" in there.

[Minnesota_Lib]

47. Next time you speak to her, pause in mid-sentence and say "ellipse."

[fudge stripe cookays]

48. I was looking for a B & B to stay in recently....

One that I found (and seems to have gone out of business in the last few weeks, since they are no longer listed for this town....)

was discussing the decor of their rooms. They were quite proud of this one room with deep violet colored walls. You know...like the eggplant. "Aborigine" colored walls.

:rofl:

[Broken_Hero]

49. ......

:spray:

[Road Scholar]

51. I think this whole conversation is a "forest"...

:rofl: :loveya: :hi:

[Road Scholar]

55. (for farce)

:pals: :hide:

[CanuckAmok]

53. "I sell ibupropan and ibupropan accessories"

[Skittles]

56. oh, don't even get me started

I could tell you story after story about f***ing idiots with master's degrees

[haf216]

57. ideal = idea

That drives me up a wall.

[Callalily]

58. Guess your colleague

just wanted to get her point acrost.

[QMPMom]

59. Ashphalt. *Everyone* up here where I live

*including* all the media, pronounces asphalt (the stuff you pave roads with) ash-phalt. It drives me insane. I got so tired of hearing *ashphalt* that I called the radio station one day and spelled it for them and asked where the *h* was in the word.

You can ask the freaking Premier of the Province what that stuff is that you pave roads with and he will answer ashphalt.

Grrrrr!!!

[Hugin]

61. !

Some people will never learn...

It's really called a 'BANG'.

Jeeeze.

[wildhorses]

63. irregardless of the facts and undoubtably due to her

bad pronunciation:P