Misheard and MisunderstoodRachelswipe says: My niece - after months of begging - was finally allowed to get a hamster, and her grandfather was utterly horrified to learn that it had been called "Nipples", a pretty good name for a pet if you ask us. Alas, it was only the more mundane "Nibbles" - what have you misheard or misunderstood, with truly hilarious consequences?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 28 Aug 2014, 21:35)
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'S' is for...When I left school, I pretty much walked straight into an IT operator job at a firm down the road. Completely new at it and was responsible for removing printouts, distributing overnight reports, fixing mice and replacing parts etc etc etc.
One of the tasks involved ringing up suppliers when computers had broken and this was my first attempt. Upon instruction, I duly ran off to the purchasing department for a P.O., filled it in and then got myself on the phone.
Operator: 'Hello, XYZ computers...'
Me: 'Hi, can I order a replacement Hard Drive for a failed machine..'
Operator: 'Certainly, can you tell me the make and model?'
Me: 'Yes, it's a WD blah blah blah'.
Operator: 'OK, can I take a P.O. number?'
Me: 'Yes, that's S456567'.
Operator: 'Is that S for sugar'?
Me: 'Sorry, I don't know what it stands for....'
What a cock.
(, Tue 2 Sep 2014, 10:47, 5 replies)
So did you ever find out what it stood for?(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 2 Sep 2014, 11:47,
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For some reason, I thought she may have been referring to sugar paper.The human mind eh?
(, Wed 3 Sep 2014, 11:39, closed)
My headmaster At junior my school had the initials B.O.H. I remember overhearing a conversation he had with someone on the phone while we were in class, I think he might have been ordering something by mail. "Yes, so its to Mr. H______ yes that's right, to Mr. B. O. H____ no no not TEE.O., BEE. O. yes.. that's it B, B.O. as in body odour ".
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Buying onlineNever mind, there are more 'numpties' who actually bring their computers in for repair than those that get the job to repair them. A lady I know said that many moons ago she worked for a computer repair shop . An old lady brought hers in for repair as 'Something had got lodged in the floppy drive thing and I can't get it out' ( I said it was any moons ago). It turned out to be her credit card! She had been attempting to do some online shopping and when it got to The 'enter your card details' part She must have thought that computers worked like an ATM machine and she had thrust her card into the disk drive.
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