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| 440.1 | | CSLALL::HENDERSON | Friend will you be ready | Mon Mar 21 1994 12:00 | 9 |
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do you want fries with that?
Jim
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| 440.2 | If that's the most common thing said to you....... | EVMS::PAULKM::WEISS | Trade freedom for His security-GAIN both | Mon Mar 21 1994 12:13 | 5 |
| > do you want fries with that?
No wonder you gained a pound last week!
:-) :-) :-)
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| 440.3 | | CSLALL::HENDERSON | Friend will you be ready | Mon Mar 21 1994 12:31 | 11 |
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Actually its the most common phrase used in the US...
Jim who had no fries or burgers over the weekend and can't figure out
how he gained a pound
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| 440.4 | | JULIET::MORALES_NA | Sweet Spirit's Gentle Breeze | Mon Mar 21 1994 12:33 | 3 |
| You have such beautiful eyes... :-) :-)
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| 440.5 | and "howdy, Donna. How are you today" | 23989::HUDDLESTON | If it is to be, it's up to me | Mon Mar 21 1994 13:08 | 5 |
| Hi there ! (of course at the most inoportune times)
Donna
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| 440.6 | Take care... | N2DEEP::SHALLOW | Subtract L, invert W. | Mon Mar 21 1994 13:28 | 10 |
| This seems to be a very common statement, which causes me to cringe inside,
whenever I hear it. Why, because I have cast all my care of all things to the
Lord, and I don't want to "take care". It's His, and I prefer it that way. It's
His, and He can handle thing FAR FAR better than I. If this is a form of
escapism, then so be it. There is much in this world I want to escape from.
Including, at times, myself.
In His Love, by His grace,
Bob
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| 440.7 | | ICTHUS::YUILLE | Thou God seest me | Mon Mar 21 1994 13:31 | 12 |
| � Then I wondered what others hear most frequently said to them.
I heard that someone, on the theory that people hear what they expect to
hear, went along a wedding reception queue saying to all the bride &
groom's family "my grandmother died last night", and getting the
anticipated responses, like :
"How sweet", "Lovely!!!", "Oh thank you!!!", etc...
But then, he could have heard them because he expected to. They might
really have been saying something totally different...
Andrew
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| 440.8 | | JULIET::MORALES_NA | Sweet Spirit's Gentle Breeze | Mon Mar 21 1994 13:34 | 3 |
| Have you answered someone before they said the "typical" phrase???
:-)
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| 440.9 | said at the drive-thru | FRETZ::HEISER | can you see who I am thru those eyes | Mon Mar 21 1994 13:44 | 1 |
| "...and I'll have that to go!"
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| 440.10 | | DNEAST::GOULD_RYAN | | Mon Mar 21 1994 13:48 | 9 |
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Well, let's see.......
"Cream and sugar ?"
"How are you today" (As if they really want to know)
"Thank you" (After showing the guard my badge)
"64 cents" (The price of hazelnut coffe in the cafeteria)
To name but a few........
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| 440.11 | | JULIET::MORALES_NA | Sweet Spirit's Gentle Breeze | Mon Mar 21 1994 13:50 | 5 |
| .10
"64 cents"!!!!! Why I'm outraged, it costs m e 89 cents!!!!
The things you learn in the most unpredictable places! :-)
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| 440.12 | Have fun with trite comments | SIERAS::MCCLUSKY | | Mon Mar 21 1994 14:11 | 8 |
| My most fun response, is in the chain resturant, where I love to say, "
I am Daryl and this is Gloria, we will be your customers tonight, if
the service is good and the food is reasonable." Not many handle this
well, sometimes stammering out again, " I am Dave and I'll be your
waiter tonight." Which if it is the second time, I love to say "I
know."
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| 440.13 | | AUSSIE::CAMERON | and God sent him FORTH (Gen 3:23) | Mon Mar 21 1994 16:13 | 5 |
| Re: Note 440.0 by JULIET::MORALES_NA
> What are the most commonly said things to you????
"Cuddle!"
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| 440.14 | | AUSSIE::CAMERON | and God sent him FORTH (Gen 3:23) | Mon Mar 21 1994 16:18 | 28 |
| Re: Note 440.8 by JULIET::MORALES_NA
> Have you answered someone before they said the "typical" phrase???
Yes. Best done at regimented take-aways like McDonalds...
--
Me: "one fish burger, one orange juice, take away, nothing else."
Them: "do you... oh, okay"
--
Me: "one fish burger, one orange juice, take away, nothing else."
Them: silence
--
Me: "one fish burger, one orange juice, take away, nothing else."
Them: "do you want fries with that"
Me: silence
Them: "oh, okay"
--
Them: "do you want fries with that"
Me: "I said nothing else!"
--
Me: "one fish burger, one orange juice, take away, _And Nothing Else_."
Them: "Yes Sir!"
--
It seems the secret is to emphasise the last few words...
;-)
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| 440.15 | | BIGQ::SILVA | Memories..... | Tue Mar 22 1994 08:57 | 52 |
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How about when you buy something at the store:
Them: Would you like a service contract with that for an extra $37? It will
cover all parts and labor for 2 years.
me: Doesn't this thing have a warrentee?
them: Yes, but that is only good for a year and parts and labor aren't
covered.
me: Is this <insert item> so cheap that I won't get 2 years out of it
without it breaking down?
them: You never know what can happen and it's safe to be covered!
me: No thanks, I don't want a service contract.
them: Are you sure? You don't want to be caught holding the bag....
me: I could go to <insert store> and buy the same thing. I don't want a
service contract.
By this time they usually stop trying to sell me one. But... if they
continue, I just walk away and buy the item somewhere else.
The other one that always seems to happen is when you go to buy a car
and you're about to talk price:
them: What is the most you can afford for payments?
me: I'm not here to discuss payments. I'm here to discuss how much the car
is going to cost me.
them: But how much can you afford a month for payments?
me: Listen, I want to talk about the price of the car only. I will worry
about the payments. For all you know I could pay cash for this car.
them: Please, sit right down.....
Then you go into the usual price haggling.
Glen
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| 440.17 | | GIDDAY::BURT | Scythe my dandelions down, sport | Tue Mar 22 1994 18:10 | 13 |
| One of my most commonly heard phrases:
"May I ask who is calling?"
to which I have known to respond
"Yes"
Small boy often says
"Do you have something special for me-ee?"
Chele
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| 440.18 | | AYOV11::EWHITE | | Wed Mar 23 1994 05:41 | 10 |
| Another one I often get confronted with is ...
"Excuse me sir but can you identify yourself ?"
to which I just bring out my mirror, look at it and say
"Yep, that's me alright".
:-)
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| 440.19 | | TOKNOW::METCALFE | Eschew Obfuscatory Monikers | Wed Mar 23 1994 14:00 | 11 |
| > What are the most commonly said things to you????
"You're the best." (and no, I don't talk to myself ;-) )
"Get your foot off my toes!"
"You paunchy, sag-bottomed, puke-pot." (Not.)
"You have something in your beard."
Want more?
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| 440.20 | | PNTAGN::BENSON | | Wed Mar 23 1994 14:03 | 3 |
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<---------- :)
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| 440.21 | | RICKS::PSHERWOOD | | Wed Mar 23 1994 14:39 | 9 |
| "Would you like anything else with that?"
HLO cafe...
and if you do, they will ask you again...
so today I said "..and nothing else" and I didn't get asked!
:-)
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| 440.22 | | CSLALL::HENDERSON | Friend will you be ready | Wed Mar 23 1994 15:00 | 13 |
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Is that water?
Heard daily from the lady at the cafe checkout thingy...to which I always
respond yes...one of these days she's not going to ask and I'm going to have
sprite ;-)
Jim
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| 440.23 | | FRETZ::HEISER | PoliticalSuicide:Whitewater&LindaThompson | Wed Mar 23 1994 15:23 | 1 |
| "Your mother did what for how many cookies??!!!"
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| 440.24 | | TOKNOW::METCALFE | Eschew Obfuscatory Monikers | Wed Mar 23 1994 15:37 | 5 |
| "Mom! She's teasing me!"
"Can I have some coke, dad?" "No."
"Mind if I'm late?" (I say this one to my pastor a lot.) ;-)
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| 440.25 | non-verbal message, every morning | JUPITR::MNELSON | | Wed Mar 23 1994 16:30 | 6 |
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"Wake up!" ....said every morning by my faithful cat Scamp in
various cat methods of communication [bat at
the blinds incessantly, jump on the body,
bat at the chin, and this morning's attention-
getter, the claw scrapped lightly in the nostril]
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| 440.26 | | JULIET::MORALES_NA | Sweet Spirit's Gentle Breeze | Wed Mar 23 1994 16:59 | 4 |
| Starting to be a routine in my house..
"Boys, Boys, please pee in the toilet!"
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| 440.27 | | GIDDAY::BURT | Scythe my dandelions down, sport | Wed Mar 23 1994 18:07 | 6 |
| re <<< Note 440.26 by JULIET::MORALES_NA
and let's not forget
"Flush, PLEASE flush!"
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| 440.28 | Why don't you put it up, Mom? | SIERAS::MCCLUSKY | | Wed Mar 23 1994 18:21 | 1 |
| Don't forget'"Doesn't anyone every put the seat down?"
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| 440.29 | Tis Twue | USAT05::BENSON | | Thu Mar 24 1994 10:50 | 5 |
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I have to brag. I have NEVER, EVER failed to put the seat down!!! I
guess I'm just real thoughtful ;)
jeff
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| 440.30 | | TOKNOW::METCALFE | Eschew Obfuscatory Monikers | Thu Mar 24 1994 10:53 | 7 |
| > I have to brag. I have NEVER, EVER failed to put the seat down!!! I
> guess I'm just real thoughtful ;)
Nah, could have been your potty training, Jeff. They have a technical
term for it, you know. ;-D
MM
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| 440.31 | | JULIET::MORALES_NA | Sweet Spirit's Gentle Breeze | Thu Mar 24 1994 10:56 | 12 |
| The question I'm avoiding and hearing over and over again:
"Mom, you got naked with Papa???????"
After innocently discussing bathtimes with Matthew when he was first
born. I'd take him in the shower with me, wash him and then hand him
off to his father to dress...
All of a sudden one of the boys deduced that Papa was in the shower
with me naked...
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| 440.32 | Can't think of suitable response | USAT05::BENSON | | Thu Mar 24 1994 10:56 | 2 |
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| 440.33 | | JULIET::MORALES_NA | Sweet Spirit's Gentle Breeze | Thu Mar 24 1994 10:57 | 1 |
| Well put your suit on and go for it!!! Always helps me. :-)
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| 440.34 | but please wait for the dog to finish drinking | FRETZ::HEISER | you got a problem with that? | Thu Mar 24 1994 12:15 | 1 |
| > Don't forget'"Doesn't anyone every put the seat down?"
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| 440.35 | | FRETZ::HEISER | you got a problem with that? | Thu Mar 24 1994 12:20 | 1 |
| how about "people don't shower with their clothes on"?
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| 440.36 | Come backs | SIERAS::MCCLUSKY | | Thu Mar 24 1994 12:20 | 5 |
| At my house, when my wife asks if I ever put the seat down, I usually
reply to the affirmative and then remark that I believe she used the
facility last and in her usual thoughtful self, must have put the seat up
for me. Or, could it have been one of those thoughtless people that
was here last week?
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| 440.37 | | AUSSIE::CAMERON | and God sent him FORTH (Gen 3:23) | Thu Mar 24 1994 16:17 | 8 |
| Re: Note 440.27 by GIDDAY::BURT
>"Flush, PLEASE flush!"
Ah. But in Great Britian I hear that their water shortages are so bad
that they avoid the flush sequence start button...
James
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| 440.38 | please stop :-) | DECLNE::YACKEL | and if not... | Thu Mar 24 1994 16:57 | 3 |
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Y'all are perpetuating some VERY scary mental images. :-)
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| 440.39 | | DECLNE::YACKEL | and if not... | Thu Mar 24 1994 16:58 | 4 |
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>flush sequence start button...
Huh? whadda you got an electric toilet?!?!?!?
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| 440.40 | | AUSSIE::CAMERON | and God sent him FORTH (Gen 3:23) | Thu Mar 24 1994 17:20 | 10 |
| Re: Note 440.39 by DECLNE::YACKEL
> Huh? whadda you got an electric toilet?!?!?!?
Nah. I just like making technical-like engineering words for ordinary
things...
Door Handle = Accessway Prevention Device Removal-Force Anchor Point
;-)
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| 440.41 | | JULIET::MORALES_NA | Sweet Spirit's Gentle Breeze | Thu Mar 24 1994 17:30 | 2 |
| Well, quite frankly I didn't know that flushes had sequences, I thought
the ballroom gowns had sequences.
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| 440.42 | but you never flush a ballroom gown in sequence | FRETZ::HEISER | Shoveling that sunshine | Thu Mar 24 1994 17:58 | 1 |
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| 440.43 | | GIDDAY::BURT | Scythe my dandelions down, sport | Thu Mar 24 1994 18:44 | 5 |
| Keep taking the medication.
:)
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| 440.44 | well, maybe not | RICKS::PSHERWOOD | | Thu Mar 24 1994 20:33 | 7 |
| hey, I hear that one a lot...
<---------------
;-)
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| 440.45 | | CSLALL::HENDERSON | Friend will you be ready | Thu Mar 24 1994 22:32 | 4 |
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Geesh..take a day off and look what I miss ;-)
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| 440.46 | | ICTHUS::YUILLE | Thou God seest me | Fri Mar 25 1994 05:42 | 5 |
| � <<< Note 440.37 by AUSSIE::CAMERON "and God sent him FORTH (Gen 3:23)" >>>
� Ah. But in Great Britian I hear
Where that?
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| 440.47 | | DELNI::DISMUKE | | Fri Mar 25 1994 10:28 | 17 |
| RE: FLUSHING
Our church is affiliated with a summer camp for kids which has a septic
system. We have the following approach to the problem of water
conservation and overloading the septic. Each stall has a sign that
reads:
If it's yellow
let it mellow.
If it's brown,
flush it down!
Crude but the kids love it!!
-sandy
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