Juvenile things that make you snigger (Vol. 2)
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V6 Pushfit said:
Gargamel said:
East Anglia has a few of these too
Six Mile Bottom always makes me smile as I drive by.
UglySix Mile Bottom always makes me smile as I drive by.
I always thought this sign was extremely rude. I mean, I know I'm not exactly leading man material, but I didn't think I looked that bad. No need to get personal, Essex County Council...
One that makes me snigger every time I pass it is Weedon, Northamptonshire.
Poor Bec, is all I can say. Unless she's into that sort of thing, obviously...
Getting people to believe outrageous things...
( From Facebook - source names removed to protect the guilty
)
"I've made up many a fake tale and people have believed it..
I told one staff member that there were showers upstairs in our open plan warehouse that she had worked in for years...and she went looking for them....She was gone for about 15 minutes ...came back and said there weren't any..and I told her a spurious location behind the computer servers...and she went up looking for them again.."
"I worked for Ford for 7 years and a Isle of Man TT 20p coin came into my possession that had two Ford Sierra Cosworths on it.....Ford were notorious on not paying people's monthly wages on time....so I spread the rumour that they had had financial trouble and were paying us all in cash this month , using their own minted money...( and then showed them the 'Ford' 20p I'd just got in my pay packet )"
"Back in the 1980's when political correctness first started being called that, I heard two men, roughly around my dads age, in our local workmans club moaning about not being allowed to call goliwogs that any more, not that I imagine they ever talked about them anyway, but they were having a full on moan that they 'had to' just call them gollies now, and I said something like, 'Where have you two been? Even gollies isn't allowed now. Now they've gone back to their original Mississippi name mackadello. You have to call them mackadellos now.' Mackadello was the name of a dog in an Australian TV series of the time, about bush doctors, by the way. I never made the word up. Anyway, a few days later, at the same club, one of the men was at the bar talking to a different man, and I heard him say 'Of course, you have to call them mackadellos now, they don't like it if you call them gollies.' Lord knows how far that twaddle spread, but I bet a fair few people believed it."
"When I was at secondary school in the 70's, I had the entire school library system searching for a book that didn't exist. We were set a task in English lit to compile a list of quotes from classical literature, and my list was complete nonsense I made up. I said it was the English translation of an Italian novel from the same era as Shakespeare. I called the book Small River No Mercy and the author was named after a mates brother Romano Giovanni. I made up quotes like 'Are men nought but bread upon the platters of gods' and 'To wear the cloak of wisdom, one first must disrobe in streams of sunlight' and 'If man were but dust, then dust would be man' This got my English teacher curious, and she tried to find the book, and to my knowledge searched for the remainder of the term, and got the borough reference library involved. I left that year, 1978, and she was still trying to find it on my last day. I'll never know how extensive her search went on to be, or how long it was before she admitted defeat and gave up, but I like to think it was years."
"Back in the '70s I told my sister that all the cute kittens and puppies etc. in photos on greeting cards were dead and stuffed, on the basis that how else could you get them to hold still in a pose while you took the photo. I mentioned this in conversation just last year and she was gobsmacked that I'd made it up - she still believed it and had told her kids the same "
( From Facebook - source names removed to protect the guilty
)"I've made up many a fake tale and people have believed it..
I told one staff member that there were showers upstairs in our open plan warehouse that she had worked in for years...and she went looking for them....She was gone for about 15 minutes ...came back and said there weren't any..and I told her a spurious location behind the computer servers...and she went up looking for them again.."
"I worked for Ford for 7 years and a Isle of Man TT 20p coin came into my possession that had two Ford Sierra Cosworths on it.....Ford were notorious on not paying people's monthly wages on time....so I spread the rumour that they had had financial trouble and were paying us all in cash this month , using their own minted money...( and then showed them the 'Ford' 20p I'd just got in my pay packet )"
"Back in the 1980's when political correctness first started being called that, I heard two men, roughly around my dads age, in our local workmans club moaning about not being allowed to call goliwogs that any more, not that I imagine they ever talked about them anyway, but they were having a full on moan that they 'had to' just call them gollies now, and I said something like, 'Where have you two been? Even gollies isn't allowed now. Now they've gone back to their original Mississippi name mackadello. You have to call them mackadellos now.' Mackadello was the name of a dog in an Australian TV series of the time, about bush doctors, by the way. I never made the word up. Anyway, a few days later, at the same club, one of the men was at the bar talking to a different man, and I heard him say 'Of course, you have to call them mackadellos now, they don't like it if you call them gollies.' Lord knows how far that twaddle spread, but I bet a fair few people believed it."
"When I was at secondary school in the 70's, I had the entire school library system searching for a book that didn't exist. We were set a task in English lit to compile a list of quotes from classical literature, and my list was complete nonsense I made up. I said it was the English translation of an Italian novel from the same era as Shakespeare. I called the book Small River No Mercy and the author was named after a mates brother Romano Giovanni. I made up quotes like 'Are men nought but bread upon the platters of gods' and 'To wear the cloak of wisdom, one first must disrobe in streams of sunlight' and 'If man were but dust, then dust would be man' This got my English teacher curious, and she tried to find the book, and to my knowledge searched for the remainder of the term, and got the borough reference library involved. I left that year, 1978, and she was still trying to find it on my last day. I'll never know how extensive her search went on to be, or how long it was before she admitted defeat and gave up, but I like to think it was years."
"Back in the '70s I told my sister that all the cute kittens and puppies etc. in photos on greeting cards were dead and stuffed, on the basis that how else could you get them to hold still in a pose while you took the photo. I mentioned this in conversation just last year and she was gobsmacked that I'd made it up - she still believed it and had told her kids the same "
Edited by MartG on Tuesday 25th February 10:10
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