Things people often say you find amusing...

[Tora Ziyal]

^ Interesting.

 

[scotpens]

The script device of statement, direct adress, repeated statement.

Example: "I don't know, George. I don't know."

Once you notice it, you can no longer NOT notice it. It is EVERYWHERE. I can't recall anyone I know EVER using that device in a real conversation.

I do.

What about Shakespeare's plays, then? No one has a real conversation in iambic pentameter either.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Any time a sentence is prefaced with something totally unrelated, usually a key phrase the person feels they must continually reinforce as part of their identity though it's not the subject they are talking about.

"I'm a very spiritual person and they were offering the car at a special discount rate.. "

(OH and you think you somehow brought this about by your super spirituality?}

"I've been sober for X years and they gave me half the shifts they said they were going to give me at work.."

A friend of mine literally prefaces the damndest things with the sober comment. A few times I've made her back track and tell me what it has to do with the sentence she just said, except she has no idea herself. So it just amuses me now except when it is her response to me talking about my life, not my life as it relates in any way to drinking or overindulging but just what is currently going on. Then I'm like.. seriously?

"I'm a Christian and the real estate agent told us we could get X for the house.."

Uh huh.

 

[Manticore]

I've heard people use it. In fact, I use it occasionally myself. "I don't know, Sakrysta. I just don't know."

Completely OT, but thank you. I've been trying to remember her TBBS name for several days now, and it was bugging me that I couldn't.

Carry on.

 

[trekkiedane]

I looked all over the place, but of course it was in the last place I looked

 

[Vendikarr]

I looked all over the place, but of course it was in the last place I looked

You mean you DIDN'T keep looking once you found it?

 

[Xip]

One of my apps on my Ipad just told me an 'unexpected error' occurred.

meh, aren't all errors like unexpected? If you'd expect them you'll fix them right? -_-"

 

[ManOnTheWave]

I accidentally wore a red tee shirt when I went into Target one day. I stopped to help a lady get something off the top shelf. Another lady, thinking I worked there, asked where the hot chocolate was. Since I knew where it was, I took her there.

That used to happen to me a lot. I don't own a red t-shirt anymore. I also used to end up showing customers around whatever book store where I was shopping. I guess I just looked like someone who would work at a book store.

Anyway, another odd retail experience I used to have a lot was when I'd pick an item off a shelf and someone would rush up to me asking if they could have it. "I need that item!" "This one? You need this one." So I'd give it to them and take an identical item off the shelf and walk away. Who am I to stand between them and their needs?

 

[scotpens]

One of my apps on my Ipad just told me an 'unexpected error' occurred.

meh, aren't all errors like unexpected? If you'd expect them you'll fix them right? -_-"

That's like "free gift" (as opposed to a gift you have to pay for?)

Or "advance planning" (as opposed to planning something that's happening right now?)

 

[Xip]

Exactly like that! Thank you!

 

[trekkiedane]

I looked all over the place, but of course it was in the last place I looked

You mean you DIDN'T keep looking once you found it?

Exactly.

Although, I must admit that I personally have on rare occasions kept looking after having found the object I was looking for.... but that's usually because the search at that point had been going on for so long that I'd forgotten what I was looking for

 

[Orac Zen]

"New baby".

Who ever had an old (or used, or whatever) baby?

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

It just makes the baby sound shiny!

 

[trekkiedane]

^Ah, a baby that's been to Stephen Frys baby buffing service!

 

[Rowan Sjet]

As someone who works for a Health advice line service, I always find it amusing when people answer why they're calling with "I just need a bit of advice really!"

Sure, I guess you've come to the right place then! You, uh, want to tell me what you need advice about then?

 

[thestrangequark]

One of my apps on my Ipad just told me an 'unexpected error' occurred.

meh, aren't all errors like unexpected?

Not if you're using Windows.

 

[Tora Ziyal]

"New baby".

Who ever had an old (or used, or whatever) baby?

That one can actually make sense in a big family where there's, say, a newborn (the "new baby"), an 11-month-old (still a baby), a 3-year-old, and a 4-year-old.

But I get the point.

And it reminds me of my then-husband, shortly after we were married, introducing me to someone as "my new wife". After he said it, he got all flustered, wondering if they'd think he'd had a previous/old one.

 

[Manticore]

As someone who works for a Health advice line service, I always find it amusing when people answer why they're calling with "I just need a bit of advice really!"

Sure, I guess you've come to the right place then! You, uh, want to tell me what you need advice about then?

Ditto for me. I work customer service, and if I had a nickel for every time someone said "I have a problem..."

 

[Tora Ziyal]

Speaking of new babies, this was in the NYT today!

 

[scotpens]

^^

Nature provides plenty of reasons for parents to adore their newborns. The giant eyes, the adorable coos, the flawless skin.

The crying, the puking, the 2:00 A.M. feedings, the constantly changing poopy diapers.

No, thanks.

Now, back to our regularly scheduled topic.