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[elsporko]

Meh, I worked at a historical town and in the visitor's center across from my desk was a model with a three minute narration that played if you pressed the button. Everyday I heard somebody making a joke about being able to memorize it. I just shrugged it off, they don't know that everybody makes that joke. Its better for a customer to make a lame joke then to be yelling.

[BusBus]

Its legal to have the first name Princess? I always thought you couldn't have a title for a first name.

Depending on the country, you can name your kid whatever the hell you want. "Princess" is not the worst that I have seen. You can also legally change your name to whatever the hell you want. "Princess" is certainly not the worst that I have seen.

Just the other day I carded a guy whose middle name was, I shit you not, "Casebeer." That was classic!

I dealt with a fella whose middle name was "Cannibis". Parents were hippies.

I don't see what the problem with this person is. All he did was make a joke. It might not have been a great joke but I also doubt he is a comedian. If I were you I'd be amused about the fact that a customer is thanking me.

Hearing the same one-liner over and over again loses it's sparkle rather quickly.
It's especially irritating if you are in a position where you have to fake laugh (who likes to do that?). "Haha...ha..."

[Mike Taylor]

I don't see what the problem with this person is. All he did was make a joke. It might not have been a great joke but I also doubt he is a comedian. If I were you I'd be amused about the fact that a customer is thanking me.

There are certain phrases in retail that just get run into the ground. That is one of them. Everybody who has ever sold a lottery ticket to anyone has heard some variant of that phrase at least once a week from somebody thinking they were clever.

[Gravekeeper]

There are certain phrases in retail that just get run into the ground. That is one of them. Everybody who has ever sold a lottery ticket to anyone has heard some variant of that phrase at least once a week from somebody thinking they were clever.

Exactly, and when you're selling 60 or 70 a night and 30 of them make some duurrr, ayuk "joke" it tends to wear.

[bunnyboy]

To Princess, I'da have to say only one thing.... a bit of a paraphrase and nobody gets cookies for the reference, too easy...

Life isn't fair princess, anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something.

and yeah I'll take a mousepad and maybe a eeePC...

[infinitemonkies]

Its legal to have the first name Princess? I always thought you couldn't have a title for a first name.

Y'know Prince, the musician (artist? lunatic?). Prince is his real first name. His full birth name is Prince Rogers Nelson.

Also, Madonna's real first name is Madonna, Cher's real first name is Cher (short for Cherilyn) and Sting's real first name is Gordon.

[AriRashkae]

Life isn't fair princess, anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something.

or:

"Welcome to Real Life!"

[Dreamstalker]

I ain't touchin' that one with a ten-foot cattleprod >_>

Ditto...tis a part of the weird side of otaku-ism I think (who would buy one of those/be able to get away with having it on display?).

[Gravekeeper]

Ditto...tis a part of the weird side of otaku-ism I think (who would buy one of those/be able to get away with having it on display?).

I recall a news article about a guy who basically has one as his lover. ;p

Yeah, here it is: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/ma...pagewanted=all

You may recognize him from the classic "So ronery" Internet meme. ( If not, just GIS it. ) ><

[Chromatix]

Not to mention a certain 19th century engineer called Isembard Kingdom Brunel. Someone who actually lived up to his otherwise rather pretentious name.

[Kara]

There's a kid in my daughter's school named Sephiroth.

That's beyond pathetic.

Speaking of pathetic, I saw the girlfriend pillow article before. There's also a boyfriend pillow for girls, although it's not quite as pitiful.

[Gravekeeper]

There's a kid in my daughter's school named Sephiroth.

That's beyond pathetic.

Oh wow. Just...wow. That kid's whole childhood is going to be a swirling vortex of mockery and beatings. The only possible name that would top that for adolescent ridicule factor would be something like Gaylord Saint Prime.

[Broomjockey]

Gaylord Saint Prime.

Thanks! Now I know what to name my kid.

[morgana]

I dealt with a fella whose middle name was "Cannibis". Parents were hippies.

Yeah, I was very glad that my cousin's only child turned out to be a girl. She got named "Summer Rain". If she'd been a boy, it was going to be "Emmanuel Hashish".

[chainedbarista]

hmm, those beat out an ancestor of mine's name:

aura izora

no idea what brought that into play after labor was done.