Subject: Funny Things Heard and Seen
Posted by: Mixamatosis
Date: Mar 28 17
Just a thread for posting funny things people have said or done
Posted by: Mixamatosis
Date: Mar 28 17
Just a thread for posting funny things people have said or done
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Mixamatosis 
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This morning on T.V. I was amused to hear a man describe his garden shed as like "the leaning tower of pizza". (He pronounced it like that). Reply #1. Mar 28 17, 3:27 AM |
Mommakat
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Great idea for a thread Mixie....I am sure we have all witnessed or heard strange and funny things at times. How about this one.....I was in the local supermarket one day and a fellow was there with his two little sons, aged about 4 and 6. The younger of the two was playing up and creating a scene and would not go through the checkout to leave the store but instead threw a tantrum. Dad turned round to the Check out lass and asked her did she have a broom. A bit startled and wondering why she said "Yes, but what do you want it for?" "Well", replied Dad, " as he wants to stay here you may as well put him to work sweeping the floor". Sonny boy was out of there so fast he would have beat Roger Bannister's 4 minute mile. Bravo to Dad who dealt with the situation nicely and without further ado.....LOL Reply #2. Mar 28 17, 6:16 AM |
Dorsetmaid
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When my son was five, he asked me what a darned settee was. They had been singing Lord of the Dance at school assembly ... Reply #3. Mar 28 17, 1:59 PM |
LillaVanilla
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I heard on the news that a wild turkey had wandered into an area Walmart and refused to leave. It was just strolling around looking at everything, just like any shopper would. Attempts to shoo it out of the store failed, and animal control had to capture it and return it to the fields behind the store. Reply #4. Mar 30 17, 6:43 AM |
| Mixamatosis
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Nice stories :) Reply #5. Mar 30 17, 12:12 PM |
| Mixamatosis
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My husband told me his sister asked "Can I have another sottage? when she was young. Her parents said "sausage". "Can you say sausage?". His sister said "sausage"." Well", they said (waiting for the correct request). "Well" she said, "I've said sausage, now can I have another sottage?". Reply #6. Apr 04 17, 3:19 PM |
| Mommakat
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Oh! Mixie, that is priceless....LOL Reply #7. Apr 04 17, 5:51 PM |
| Mixamatosis
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I was listening to a programme called "Newsnight" tonight and the interviewer and interviewees were using the word "egregious" a lot. To be sure I understood I checked on the meaning of "egregious" using google. I found it means "outstandingly bad or shocking" However there was a reference to an archaic meaning of the word which was "remarkably good". I wonder how it went from meaning one thing, to meaning the exact opposite. The English language can be so strange at times. Reply #8. Aug 17 17, 4:15 PM |
| Mixamatosis
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A very interesting accent from the USA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxVOIj7mvWI - similar to West Country English. Reply #9. Aug 29 17, 3:55 AM |
| Mixamatosis
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I was walking down my road which has lots of traffic and is very busy. I spotted a man wobbling badly on a bike. He looked like someone who did not know how to ride a bike and this was his first time trying to learn. He nearly fell off and pulled up and I said to him that he looked as if he didn't know how to ride a bike. He agreed that he didn't. I suggested that this road was too dangerous to learn on, and there was a park round the corner. He said that's where he was headed. Then he got off the bike and started walking it down the pavement. Don't know whether a life was saved there, but I've never seen someone so incapable on a bike on a busy road before. There have been 2 fatal bike accidents on the road and those people were regular bike riders. Reply #10. Sep 06 17, 12:29 PM |
Creedy
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After he stopped laughing, my little grandson indignantly said I was just trying to tickle him when I told him I wanted to practise the Heimlich manoeuvre on him. Of course I was. Reply #11. Nov 22 17, 3:24 AM |
| Mixamatosis
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Creedy. How sweet. Reply #12. Nov 22 17, 1:18 PM |
Skyflyerjen
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A squirmy kid really wanted his mom to buy him some sweets at my supermarket. She refused and he leaned his head back, cried, and bellowed, "I hate that you're doing this to me!" Flair for the dramatic! Reply #13. Feb 15 18, 10:31 AM |
| Skyflyerjen
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Years ago I had a friend who was pretending to be The Incredible Hulk but completely butchered his line... "You won't like me anymore when I get upset!" (I cracked up) Reply #14. Feb 15 18, 10:36 AM |
| Mixamatosis
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This isn't a funny ha ha story. There were 2 twin brothers who lived in my road. They were identical. Both were very large men and both were blind. You would always see them out together with their blind persons' sticks. I think one must have died because I've only ever seen one in recent years. The other day I was walking down my road, which is a very busy road in terms of traffic, and I saw the man crossing the road without any help. He wasn't on a crossing when he crossed but just walked calmly across the road using his stick. I wondered whether he could hear that the road was clear to cross, but some cars are very quiet these days and I thought he is taking such a risk crossing that way. He must be trusting any cars to slow down or stop for him. He must have great faith in human nature or be very confident in his judgement. I wasn't close enough to offer help. Someone else offered it when he reached the pavement but no one was near to him when he started crossing. Reply #15. Jun 08 18, 12:51 PM |
| Mixamatosis
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The unspoken thought that occurred to me was, if he is the surviving brother he won't last long if he keeps doing that, but I tend to worry even about cats crossing our road. We've never let ours out of the front onto the road. Reply #16. Jun 09 18, 11:39 PM |
| Mixamatosis
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Almost every time I go to water my front garden it seems a bus turns up but that doesn't happen when I'm leaving the house to get a bus. It's an example of Murphy's law I suppose. Reply #17. Jun 27 18, 11:47 AM |
paulmallon
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he Goldberg Brothers - The Inventors of the Automobile Air Conditioner. Here's a little fact for automotive buffs, or just to dazzle your friends. The four Goldberg brothers, Lowell, Norman, Hiram, and Maxwell, invented and developed the first automobile air-conditioner. On July 17, 1946 , the temperature in Detroit was 97 degrees. The four brothers walked into old man Henry Ford's office and sweet-talked his secretary into telling him that four gentlemen were there with the most exciting innovation in the auto industry since the electric starter. Henry was curious and invited them into his office. They refused and instead asked that he come out to the parking lot to their car. They persuaded him to get into the car, which was about 130 degrees inside, turned on the air conditioner, and cooled the car off immediately. The old man got very excited and invited them back to the office, where he offered them $3 million for the patent. The brothers refused, saying they would settle for $2 million, but they wanted the recognition by having a label, 'The Goldberg Air-Conditioner,' on the dashboard of each car in which it was installed. Now old man Ford was more than just a little anti-Jewish, and there was no way he was going to put the Goldberg's name on two million Fords. They haggled back and forth for about two hours and finally agreed on $4 million and that just their first names would be shown. And so to this day, all Ford air conditioners show -- Lo, Norm, Hi, and Max -- on the controls. Reply #18. Sep 29 20, 12:13 PM |
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