Juvenile things that make you snigger.

[standards]

irocfan said:

homework...

I'm reliably informed that the letter in Chinese is commenting (amongst other things) that life is harder than they imagined it would be...

[Asterix]

I thought Chinese went from the top downwards in columns?

Anyway, it's all Greek to me.

[DWS]

MikeOxlong said:

GreenDog said:

I just saw News Watch on the BBC on which they were talking about April Fools pranks when Samira Ahmed read out an email from ... Mike Oxlong

I don't remember sending her an email.

Just got one of my coleagues to call one of our suppliers and as for Mike Oxlong. He did it in front of 20 of us. Much hilarity was had! The receptionis told him that was the funniest call she has had this week.

[yellowjack]

DWS said:

Just got one of my coleagues to call one of our suppliers and as for Mike Oxlong. He did it in front of 20 of us. Much hilarity was had! The receptionis told him that was the funniest call she has had this week.

A favourite on barracks was to call the MOD Guard Service dog section, and ask for Mr Barker...

MGS - "Hello, MGS dog section, can I help you?"

Prankster - "I'd like to speak to Mr Barker, please."

MGS - "Sorry, we don't have a Mr Barker working here."

Prankster - "Are you certain? I'm sure I can hear him in the background."

MGS - "Funny fker!" - *click*

There were a great many other ones, too, all courtesy of a close colleague who'd use the boss's phone to make the calls. Right up until the dog section, amongst others, got fed up with the multiple calls and the source was traced via the internal telephone exchange. The boss got a call, and then we were summoned to a briefing...

"These prank phone calls are going to stop, chaps. I've no idea which among you is responsible, PAUL! but if they stop now, no further action will be taken. So, PAUL! - just so we're clear, no more silly phone calls, right?"

...it turned out that 'Paul' had been targeting virtually everyone on camp, up to and including the CO, RSM, and the commandant's personal secretary, so when the complaints were made, they were taken VERY seriously indeed.

[Asterix]

yellowjack said:

DWS said:

Just got one of my coleagues to call one of our suppliers and as for Mike Oxlong. He did it in front of 20 of us. Much hilarity was had! The receptionis told him that was the funniest call she has had this week.

A favourite on barracks was to call the MOD Guard Service dog section, and ask for Mr Barker...

MGS - "Hello, MGS dog section, can I help you?"

Prankster - "I'd like to speak to Mr Barker, please."

MGS - "Sorry, we don't have a Mr Barker working here."

Prankster - "Are you certain? I'm sure I can hear him in the background."

MGS - "Funny fker!" - *click*

There were a great many other ones, too, all courtesy of a close colleague who'd use the boss's phone to make the calls. Right up until the dog section, amongst others, got fed up with the multiple calls and the source was traced via the internal telephone exchange. The boss got a call, and then we were summoned to a briefing...

"These prank phone calls are going to stop, chaps. I've no idea which among you is responsible, PAUL! but if they stop now, no further action will be taken. So, PAUL! - just so we're clear, no more silly phone calls, right?"

...it turned out that 'Paul' had been targeting virtually everyone on camp, up to and including the CO, RSM, and the commandant's personal secretary, so when the complaints were made, they were taken VERY seriously indeed.

Hehe - we used to do similar.

Call the OC from the workshop phone. In my best Melchett type voice...

'Do you know who this is!?'

'No'

'Jolly Good. Go fk Yourself'

...and slam the phone down.

[Frimley111R]

Every time I see a number plate with 'BJ' in the letters

[Dave G fsi]

Frimley111R said:

Every time I see a number plate with 'BJ' in the letters

Saw a Toyota Aygo yesterday with the reg plate YT14 PUF

[HTP99]

Frimley111R said:

Every time I see a number plate with 'BJ' in the letters

This is right up your street then (not my photo however I have seen the car):

[MrCarPark]

The Nur said:

Dave G fsi said:

s p a c e m a n said:

+1 Very good

Took a while

[HTP99]

MrCarPark said:

The Nur said:

Dave G fsi said:

s p a c e m a n said:

+1 Very good

Took a while

Yep, me too; just got it.

[JonRB]

s p a c e m a n said:

Some of my colleagues and I, back in the late 90's, came *this* close to getting our boss to name his new client-facing department "Project Engineering Network Integration Services" but someone bottled it and tipped him off.

Revenge was sweet though, because he did accept the suggestion for the company tagline. Whilst the actual words are now lost in the mists of my memory, I clearly remember them starting with D, I, S, A, S and T (things like Design, Integration, Test, etc), which are just an "er" away from disaster.

[DanSaff]

Erm.......

[AstonZagato]

JonRB said:

s p a c e m a n said:

Some of my colleagues and I, back in the late 90's, came *this* close to getting our boss to name his new client-facing department "Project Engineering Network Integration Services" but someone bottled it and tipped him off.

Revenge was sweet though, because he did accept the suggestion for the company tagline. Whilst the actual words are now lost in the mists of my memory, I clearly remember them starting with D, I, S, A, S and T (things like Design, Integration, Test, etc), which are just an "er" away from disaster.

I worked in an American investment bank in the 80s. At the time, it was all the rage when creating new, complex financial instruments to use acronyms to make them memorable and to "copyright" the idea - things like: LYONs (Liquid Yield Option Note), PRIDEs, ASCOTs, etc.
We had an American guy come up with a new structure. My English colleague was rather bored in a meeting to discuss it, so he said so what we have here is a "Medium Term Interest Note Geared to Equity". The American, liked it, wrote it down and started referring to them in internal memos as MINGEs. Thankfully, the idea never got off the ground.

[irocfan]

HTP99 said:

MrCarPark said:

The Nur said:

Dave G fsi said:

s p a c e m a n said:

+1 Very good

Took a while

Yep, me too; just got it.

I can't believe it took me this long

[V41LEY]

[hidetheelephants]

Naughty French coach passengers.

[109er]

hidetheelephants said:

Naughty French coach passengers.

Is that what they call 'the bums rush'

[Dave G fsi]

[illmonkey]

[LordGrover]

This lane was known by another name when I were a lad: map.