Turning a name into a verb

[Sapphire Silk]

Normally I don't tell stories about my students, but this one is pretty harmless, though funny.

My student comes up to me and says, "Ms. Silk, you Mr. Jones'd me today." (nb not his real name).

Me: Excuse me?

Studnet: You Mr. Jones'd me. I'm sure it wasn't on purpose. You gave me the homeless lady today. She makes me very sad and uncomfortable. He does the same thing; he finds the patient that makes me the most uncomfortable and does it to me on purpose.

Me: Well, I do make assignments to challenge students, but I've never heard anyone call it Mr. Jonseing before.

Student: Well, take it from me. We've turned his name into a verb.

[EvilEmpryss]

Me to Student: That's because, Honey, in the Real World, you don't get to pick and choose your clients. If you wanted to do that, you should have gone to Med School instead of Nursing School.*

*Note to the Gallery: I razz SS all the time about her job and being "just" a nurse. I'm allowed, being her sister and all, and I give her bacon.

[dalesys]

... and I give her bacon.

Damn! The whole herd of pigs just up and disappeared! Retail Workhorse pleads absence.

[sms001]

I have an ADD workmate whose forgetfulness often impacts my work. IF someone else does something similar, I laugh that they "Stoned me." Nice when you get a pun out of the verbing of someone's real name.

[Raveni]

I once told my tow company that I needed to Argabarga a car that was parked illegally and they knew exactly what I meant.

[Gilhelmi]

Well my name is a killing word. So it only reasonable.

[EvilEmpryss]

You're Muad'dib?!?

[bhskittykatt]

Whenever one of us sends an email and forgets to attach the file to go with it, we named that after our manager. "Pulling a W****" (name censored to protect the guilty).

[Gizmo]

We have a name for someone who is *so* useless and "look at me" for any newbies trying to come into various groups we are involved with.... "nope, he'll be another X****!"

[Cia]

Whenever anyone at work uses the company credit card for personal reasons we call it "pulling a K****". Named after a tech who would "accidently" use the card then "forget" to let me know so I could take it out of his paycheck.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

When I'm checking dates in the freezer sections and find the May dates in front of the April dates, that's not the Julian Calendar at all.

Ma and I now refer to that as the "Paulian Calendar"