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Ava Banana
15:02 / 12.01.09
One little boy (all of about 5 years old)to his pal in the park: (in a very strong Lancashire accent)

"Fireworks? Oh no. I won't be going there. 'Cause the last time I went to see 'em right, it were that loud I wet me pants!"

It was said with absolutely no embarrassment and with utterly serious conviction, cue muffled snorts from many adults nearby.
 
 
iamus
14:40 / 19.01.09
In work, ten minutes ago.


A. "I wish I had pay-per-view. I'd get the Royal Rumble"

B. "What's the Royal Rumble?"

A. "Thirty guys come in the ring at thirty second intervals"

C. "Oh. It's that kind of pay-per-view"
 
 
trouble at bill
12:32 / 21.01.09
This is an overseen, rather than overheard but I think it can go here. I am in a library and a young man opposite me has just inadvertantly revealed that he has a roll of toilet/bathroom tissue in his satchel. Nothing unusual there, you might think, but thsi is not your ordinary size roll, oh no. This is one of those car tyre sized ones which they use in institutions. Took up practically his entire satchel!

Like, I know some people steal tissue, of course they do, I may even have done it myself once or twice, but Jeeesus, I have never seen anyone pull of such an industrial scale tissue heist! The guy must be phenomenally tight-fisted to be prepared to carry that around all day! It must weigh fucknowshowmuch! Brilliant!
 
 
Proinsias
20:47 / 21.01.09
Nice.

An old boss of my wife once sent a memo around the office asking everyone to limit themselves to two sheets of toilet paper per visit as the toilet paper budget was getting out of hand.
 
 
Liger Null
21:56 / 21.01.09
It would be interesting to see them try to enforce that.
 
 
Mistoffelees
22:05 / 21.01.09
ThereĀ“d be vouchers.
 
 
Proinsias
22:45 / 21.01.09
if they weren't the glossy vouchers I suppose it might work
 
 
Tsuga
23:46 / 21.01.09
You'd have to go to the main office and ask the boss for your two squares, soon enough there'd be a black market trade in shit tickets, and the guy with the giant industrial roll in his satchel would become corrupted by power and rule the office like a monster, trying to play people off of each other like an evil puppetmaster. But I wouldn't go for it, mostly because I'd rather wipe with a cactus than that industrial roll newspaper.
 
 
Blue Eyes Not Innocent
05:21 / 23.01.09
Overheard at a bar I work in.

"If I had a daughter? Shabazz Pizzazz. My son would be named Optimus Prime." Said with absolutely no hesitation by a guy who was asked what his kids names would be.
 
 
Dead Megatron
10:48 / 23.01.09
My son would be named Optimus Prime.

That'd be some big shoes to fit...
 
 
trouble at bill
15:22 / 01.03.09
Overheard in the gents' toilet at a UK university:

"Can you call me back, I'm pissing all over the floor!"

Stated without any hint of humour or irony by a fiftysomething acdemic-type who had, uh, lost control of his vehicle so to speak, in the course of attempting to take a call while urinating. I've been out of academia just long enought to have forgotten just how stupid the highly-intelligent can sometimes be. Irony of it is he's probably a Nobel Prize winner or something...
 
 
Eek! A Freek!
17:00 / 03.03.09
"I smell burnt toast, am I having a heart attack?"
 
 
Evil Scientist
20:28 / 10.02.13
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