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#1Um . . .
Posted: 5/12/07 at 4:36pmI just ordered Chinese food and the person asked me for my name and I said, "DJ." It was silent for a second and she said, "How do spell that?" I nearly busted out laughing into the phone.
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vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#2re: Um . . .
Posted: 5/12/07 at 4:39pmSometimes I really wonder about people.
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
#2re: Um . . .
Posted: 5/12/07 at 4:40pmYou don't know how many times people have asked me for my name and I say, "DJ" and they write it down as "DeeJay."
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#3re: Um . . .
Posted: 5/12/07 at 4:53pmI get confused by MC and Emcee, but that's just me. Why can't they stick to MC, like DJ or almost every other abbreviation?
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
SweetQintheLights
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/05
#4re: Um . . .
Posted: 5/12/07 at 4:56pm
The point is, do they need to know how to spell it?
They aren't writing you a formal letter.
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#5re: Um . . .
Posted: 5/12/07 at 5:44pmI've been giving my wrong name lately, whenever I'm asked by someone whom I don't want to know my real name.
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C is for Company
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/16/05
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Posted: 5/12/07 at 5:48pmhaha, is your fake name Jane then or do you use something else?
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Posted: 5/12/07 at 5:54pmLOL, you got me. I've been telling them "Jane" which is my middle name for real!
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Posted: 5/12/07 at 6:01pm
Her real name is Alexis!
ooooops!!!
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#9re: Um . . .
Posted: 5/12/07 at 6:16pmMaybe she was from another country?
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#10re: Um . . .
Posted: 5/12/07 at 6:21pmThe kid in my local Chinese place asked a customer "Do you have a name?" and the guy went off on him "What do you mean 'Do I have a name?' Of course I have name you idiot."
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#11re: Um . . .
Posted: 5/12/07 at 6:24pm
I know it's not very PC of me to say, but I find it annoying, for example, when the people working in florists take twenty minutes to take down a short message to be attatched to some flowers by phone. Someone who has to use the English language in their job should be able to use it. I have no problem with people from abroad working here or elsewhere, as long as they can actually do the job.
That said, some Irish people are equally bad at spelling!
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
*thinkpink18*
Stand-by Joined: 2/14/07
#12re: Um . . .
Posted: 5/12/07 at 6:38pm
^^^ I agree with you completely. I get sick of everything having to be so PC allll the time, so thanks for stating that.
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Posted: 5/12/07 at 6:42pm
Rath-LOL.
This is funny-my friend used to call the same "Asian" restaurant every day, order food, and her husband would pick it up on the way home. One time my friend forgot to say no msg, so she called back. Every time she called back, the woman on the phone hung up on her before she had a chance to tell her no msg. Finally, after 3 calls, my friend yelled out, "Don't hang up". The woman yelled "Shut up, you stupid!" and hung up.
LOLOLOLOL!
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Posted: 5/12/07 at 6:44pmWickedGeek turns on Everyone's A Little Bit Racist and through the pwoers of the internet sends to all who feel that PC is tiring after a while.
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
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#16re: Um . . .
Posted: 5/12/07 at 7:22pmYeah, PC is so pervasive now that you have to think before you say anything.
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#17re: Um . . .
Posted: 5/13/07 at 8:04am
Now now children, we all to embrace our differences to build a bridge across the cultural divide....
who am I kidding? Send em' to a damn ESL class!
I said NO starch in my dress shirts. Instead i look like I'm wearing a freaking sandwich board.
Annoying.
....but the world goes 'round
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Posted: 5/13/07 at 8:07am
I don't understand why people look at me funny when they ask my name and I say Boobs.
Tazzy..I go through the same thing...guess they don't udnerstand "light starch"..so now I say "none" and the starch is perfect. 
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Posted: 5/13/07 at 11:41amI'm sure they know how to spell that one, though.
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Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#21re: Um . . .
Posted: 5/13/07 at 1:44pm
"Yeah, PC is so pervasive now that you have to think before you say anything."
*GASP* You think before speaking? Wow, you should teach a class.
Back on topic--I usually give a name like "Paris Hilton" or "Sandra Bullock" whenever I'm getting food. They never call me on it.
"Paris Hilton, your sandwich is ready!"
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AudreyTwoTwo
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/06
#22re: Um . . .
Posted: 5/13/07 at 4:43pm
alright i seee hat you're saying as to different races asking. That is a little racist.
But really? If one of my friends asked? Hey, I agree with you. It's just really funny.
One day I was wearing a necklace and it was the shape of New York. My friend says, "That's cute! Is it Texas?" (she's not from a different country at all) and then I said, "No, it's New York." she said, "Well the way it was positioned (she rotated it so that that Upstate NY was facing the left, the very top of it.), it looked like Texas!" I looked down at the charm and said,"That would be Florida, if anything."
Just a funny joke. More a "you had to be there" sort of thing.
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Posted: 5/13/07 at 4:56pm
"Yeah, PC is so pervasive now that you have to think before you say anything."
*GASP* You think before speaking? Wow, you should teach a class.
Been there, done that for too many years, thanks.
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Updated On: 5/13/07 at 04:56 PM
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