You maniacs! You blew it up!

[Sliceanddice]

What is it about a mall power outage that inspires people to flood into your store? Ohhhh! Lookie that row of stores is completely dark! They must be having a huge sale - let's go in!!!
-No I can't check your gift card balance.
-No I can't go online to check stuff for you
-No, I can't book appointments for you
-The computers and printers will not work without electricity
-Yes, I will have to ring up your sales with a calculator and handwrite receipts the old fashioned way. No I can't go any faster - be glad I don't just kick your ass out like most stores do during an outage.

*cough* king of the Hill
Y2K scare
Oh dangit the computers down your going to have to come back later.
Just do a hand reciet.
Sir with out the computer i cant even calculate tax.
Its 8%!
YES AND IS A 8BUTTON ON THE COMPUTER


good god i hate people who cant calculate there own tax

oh and love nick cage, and yes the johnny depp thing is true, i like the name Kal El.

I plan on being alittle mean the time comes.
Eithne, Oran/Oden/Owen, Gwynnion Ect... i love weird names. and i like formal names. You can have nick names. Like Thenie, Oh, Ninni....

[edible_hat]

ME: Hi, this is Kara, how can I help you today?
SW: What?
ME: This is Kara with (COMPANY), how can I help you?
SW: ...
ME: Hello?
SW: What?
ME: How. Can. I. Help. You?
SW: Oh, I want to take (X FEATURE) off my account.
ME: Sure, could I just have your mobile phone number?
SW: Yeah, it's XXX-XXX-XXXX.
ME: XXX-XXX-XXXX?
SW: Yeah. No. Wait.
ME: ...
SW: Yeah.
ME: I'm afraid that's not brining me an account.
SW: So is it XXX-XXX-XXXX (the exact same wrong number)
ME: No, I'm afraid that's not it.
SW: Are you sure?

The "are you sure?" thing is a major pet hate of mine, mostly because I have an acquaintance who does it whenever people correct him. He often does it a few times in the same conversation, he thinks he's always right but rarely actually is.

(singing along with the radio) "We're the department of woot! Your new department of woot!"
"Um... the actual line is department of youth..."
"Are you sure? It sounds like woot to me. It must be right."
"The song's title is actually Department of Youth..."
"Are you sure? I think it's woot."

"I wonder if Jet Li and Bruce Lee are related."
"Jet Li's name is spelled differently."
"Are you sure? They both sound the same."
"Jet is L-I, Bruce is L-E-E."
"Are you sure?"

I went to HS with a guy named Thomas Thomas. Boy, what were his parents smoking?

I had an art teacher called John Johnson.

[Jadedcarguy]

That's fine, as long as you stay away from Hair Ass, or the name Jack.

I was thinking, if it's a girl, I will call her Amanda Hugenkis, or perhaps Sofonda Cox.

[worddork]

I might....


It's best for all of us if I don't breed.

That's fine, as long as you stay away from Hair Ass, or the name Jack.

[powerboy]

you have to understand he thinks that everyone is out to screw him out of SOMETHING - regardless of what it is - so now he's ranting on about how when his contract is up with provider X, he's going elsewhere.

That is how my last boss was. No matter what it was, they were out to get him. One of his sons, thought that the paparazzi was out for him also. Like, they would come after a Small Business owner.

[1756GR2]

I've told the story before about two women I'd known who were best friends - Ginger Ale and Cherry Koch ("coke").

Another old friend's name was Chili Fales, last name pronounced just the way it looks - Fails. Story goes that her first name was given because chili was the last meal her parents had together just before she was born. Then, in the rush of other-culture awareness back in the 80's, people who only saw her name in print assumed she was latina and thought they should pronounce her name Cheelee Fall-ace. Sweet girl with a wicked sense of humor, she was amused rather than irritated. She's as white as you can be. (Haven't seen her in years, hope she's doing well.)

[rvdammit]

It's the twitching in your trigger finger that can really cause problems.

Causes you to miss. Squeeze gently.

[qaxons]

Around here there's a Richard Head... I've never met him, but his name is on all sorts of charity things as a high-money donator... Must be some "If my name is Dick Head, then by golly, I'm going to make so well known for generosity, it will change the meaning of the phrase!" complex...

I am tempted to name my kids things that are slightly... odd... but chances are I won't be breeding while I'm still crazy. *giggle*

[Calud]

I once knew a Ben Dover.... he REALLY hated his parents... I wonder why.... but he loved to crack the face of anyone who actually said his full name..... I am seriously surprised his parents did not end up as trophies on his wall..... you can bet that was one FAST name change as soon as he could.

Some people should not have kids....

Haha, yeah. One of my friends last name is Weiler... he wanted to call his kid Rod... Rod Weiler.

[Jadedcarguy]

Who in their right mind would name a kid Rosie Ass!

I might....


It's best for all of us if I don't breed.

[worddork]

My own surname sounds like doors, so I vetoed my wife's suggestion that if we had a daughter we could name her Katherine Louise. (Cat doors? Cat LOO doors? Loo doors? the poor girl would have been trapped whichever name she used. Maybe it was lucky we had only sons)

I feel your pain. My surname if said too fast sounds like the three letter trem for a donkey. And since my dad goes by his first initial and our surname, we get telemarketers trying to guess what the R stands for. I think the best was Rosie. Who in their right mind would name a kid Rosie Ass!

[Andara Bledin]

I don't really know how it works, and since I'm never having kids, I probably won't get into it. *shrug*



Fun stuff: My boss knows a lot of really odd and diverse individuals, and we get a lot of anecdotes told around the office by various people.

One time, one of his cronies (he's got dozens of guys who are all around his age that are in the same field, and we call 'em his cronies) was talking about Nicolas Cage. The cronies' wife was a grade school teacher, and the people from Biography approached her regarding a 2nd grader she once had in her class.

They originally mentioned him as being Nicolas Cage, but she didn't recognize the name at all. Finally, however, the got past that impasse, and she exclaimed something along the lines of, "Oh, you mean little Nicky Coppola."

So now, every time I read or hear anything about Nicolas Cage, I hear the phrase "little Nicky Coppola" in my head.

And his son's name is Kal-El Coppola Cage. Even the name Cage is from a comic book character; Luke Cage, an early black super hero (he had believed it to be the first).

Oh, and according to the trivia in IMDb, he's responsible for Jonny Depp getting his first role....

^-.-^

[Broomjockey]

Actually, is the kid's name Kal El Cage or Kal El Coppola? Did Nick have his name legally changed, or is that just his stage name?

^-.-^

Kal El Coppola would actually be kind of a cool name, but can't they just put whatever last name on the birth certificate? I mean, as long as it's officially registered and lineage established, a name's a name, right? Not like it's the "Royal Ancient and Most Noble House of Cage" or something

[JustADude]

Superman, right?

Actually, is the kid's name Kal El Cage or Kal El Coppola? Did Nick have his name legally changed, or is that just his stage name?

Bingo, and 'Not a clue' respectively.

[Andara Bledin]

Besides, most people don't use their middle name, so he'd be known as Kal Cage. While it sounds like a porn-star name or something, it's not all that bad.

Actually, is the kid's name Kal El Cage or Kal El Coppola? Did Nick have his name legally changed, or is that just his stage name?

^-.-^