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Joke fallen flat / other embarrasing moment?

robert@fmrobert@fm
edited February 2008 in Chit chat
The time I'm thinking of is this post from css, in which I made a pun on the fact that "normal" in geometry means "perpendicular". Sadly, despite the smiley, nobody seems to have realised that it was a joke. :(

Similar reminiscences anyone?
Post edited by robert@fm on
I never make misteaks mistrakes misyales errurs — oh, sod it.

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  • psj3809psj3809
    edited February 2008
    Thought Locketts supposed attempt in...

    http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=19358

    Was very unfunny !
  • milemile
    edited February 2008
    i was going out with a black girl ages ago, things were going well, unitl one day i decided to put a lamp shade on my head and pretend to be chinese. i didn't have time to remove it before she was out the door.
  • milemile
    edited February 2008
    psj3809 wrote: »
    Thought Locketts supposed attempt in...

    http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=19358

    Was very unfunny !

    true! even i know that posting jokes in sections designed to help can be bad form. unless its exceptionally funny. hmmmm wheres the lamp shade.
  • beanzbeanz
    edited February 2008
    Speaking of chinese people...I saw a photo a couple weeks ago of some chinese chick wearing a t-shirt that said

    cho mi pu tang.

    I was quite amused.
  • IN31IN31
    edited February 2008
    I was working in our Hong Kong office a few years back and said to one of the locals in the office without thinking 'Do you not get bored with having chinese every night'.

    :roll:
  • beanzbeanz
    edited February 2008
    I have these moments all the time, I have a pretty dry sense of humor and the Yanks don't get it 70% of the time...whenever you have to explain something it loses its edge.
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited February 2008
    beanz wrote: »
    I have these moments all the time, I have a pretty dry sense of humor and the Yanks don't get it 70% of the time...whenever you have to explain something it loses its edge.

    I know exactly how you feel matey!

    What really annoys me is the stupidity of some of them, you crack a joke and tumbleweeds go past, then you explain it, they chuckle a little, then ask you to say something like "Bloody hell!".

    Which they then proceed to crease up over.

    Surely this will get boring sometime?

    My manager at work is from Kentucky, and at first his "Bloody Hell Luv! and "Bloody Hell Mate!" were amusing, now I want to strangle him everytime he says it. I think I will if he ever asks me to say it :D
    Every night is curry night!
  • milemile
    edited February 2008
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »

    My manager at work is from Kentucky, and at first his "Bloody Hell Luv! and "Bloody Hell Mate!" were amusing, now I want to strangle him everytime he says it. I think I will if he ever asks me to say it :D

    i used to work with a geordie, i kept making him say 'did yor spill wor lasses pint'
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited February 2008
    mile wrote: »
    i used to work with a geordie, i kept making him say 'did yor spill wor lasses pint'

    I bet he got sick of that that especially since the correct term these days would be more like "Hoo daft cunt! Y' spilt wor lasses pint!!!". :lol:
    Every night is curry night!
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