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weeler "temp banned"
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Submitted by weeler on 20 August, 2008 - 10:04.

Make jokes about your boss having downes syndrome in front of him. No matter how perfectly timed it is.

Rob Ray "The difficulty with unions is how to turn grump into thump."
Posts: 3181 Joined: 06-11-03 Location: England
20 August, 2008 - 10:11

Ouch...

dee
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20 August, 2008 - 10:14

oops.

weeler "temp banned"
Posts: 7384 Joined: 25-09-05 Location: Dublin
20 August, 2008 - 10:20

So someone asked;

"is it downe or downes syndrome?"

editor - "i've had this before..."

me - "hahaha, you had downes syndrome before"

other journos - "lulz"

dee
Posts: 1294 Joined: 24-04-08
20 August, 2008 - 10:27

Well, you got a good response from the others, so at least you aren't going to be isolated with people giving you hate-filled stares for making jokes about disability.

Rob Ray "The difficulty with unions is how to turn grump into thump."
Posts: 3181 Joined: 06-11-03 Location: England
20 August, 2008 - 10:34

Was the editor like

or

?

tigersiskillers "now slightly more sane, and that's official"
Posts: 252 Joined: 07-08-06
20 August, 2008 - 10:35

I once accidentally sent an email describing a manager as a cunt to the manager.

dee
Posts: 1294 Joined: 24-04-08
20 August, 2008 - 11:21

laugh out loud

juozokas "when i was a youth i used to burn collie weed in a rizzla, now i am a man i just rub collie weed in a chalwa"
Posts: 456 Joined: 05-11-07
20 August, 2008 - 12:00
tigersiskillers wrote:
I once accidentally sent an email describing a manager as a cunt to the manager.

LOL, so good

Randy ""Spreading the Gospel of Sausage Gravy.""
Posts: 471 Joined: 31-01-07 Location: East By-God Kentucky, USA
22 August, 2008 - 02:03

My boss makes fun of himself. "Got a touch of the Parkinson's this morning," he'll say, as he struggles to control his shaking hands as he gives me a piece of paper with the service call info on it.

No wonder we love him.

Refused "anarchoco pops"
Posts: 6393 Joined: 28-09-04 Location: Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
22 August, 2008 - 16:57

I'm posting in this thread because Randy did.

Randy ""Spreading the Gospel of Sausage Gravy.""
Posts: 471 Joined: 31-01-07 Location: East By-God Kentucky, USA
22 August, 2008 - 22:40

You weird me out, Refused.