The utterly ridiculous / hysterical comments your friends come out with, in which you seriously question if they live on the same planet as you...[lighttheart]

To be fair it did take a lot of people a while to work out about George Michael.... didn't it? It's true of a lot of boy-band pop-stars who are marketed at girls - they hide their sexuality for the first few years of their career. See also Steven Gately. That chap from Union J is unusual in coming out right at the start of their career. (Disclaimer: I only know about the existence of Union J thanks to a teenage DD!)

Tobiasfunke, that's genius. I'm sure DD2 must be destined for greatness, on that rationale, just as long as none of her great orations require her to say the words spoon ('poon'), because ('metoz') or Christmas ('mistmuss').

Actually, I did used to think that the actual paper somehow did get sucked into the fax machine and sent to the person! I couldn't figure out how else they would get it

Re the couple of posts about faxes, I had a similar conversation with my, then, boss when faxes were in their infancy. I'd picked up a document from his desk to fax

Me : I'll take this to fax to
Him : Don't fax the original, we need to keep it for the file
Me: I will keep it for the file
Him : But if you fax the original it will be lost forever
Me : Do you think the paper rolls up into a tiny tube and slithers down the phone line?

Fortunately he had a great sense of humour, so I knew I could get away with my final comment

I don't I ever thought about the nationality of buffalo that mozzarella comes from, just that they are buffalo! Surely people thinking that it comes from American rather than Italian can't be that bad - it's not on the same scale of dumb as some of the other stuff on this thread!

I know,

I asked her what on earth was in the shoes to make people scamper along quickly and jerkily. And what had changed in less than a hundred years in shoe design which enabled people to walk normally. And why did everyone have shoe problems.

She would not have it.

It is made from buffalo isn't it?

Not American buffaloes but buffaloes all the same.

Italian water buffalo!

That's an easy enough mistake to make about the buffalo though, even if it is water buffalo that the mozzarella comes from, rather than the American bison.

But buffalo mozzarella is made from buffalo milk?

Watching a tv show showing footage of the First World War.

Friend- I wonder why people in the olden days walked so quickly and jerkily, far more than we do today. Do you reckon it was because of their shoes?

Me - they didn't walk any differently, it's just that the film was jerky when it was in its infancy.

Friend - oh don't be ridiculous.

Rowed about it for AGES.

I know a few people who thought that Buffalo mozzarella is made from buffalo milk. As in American buffalo.

Btw, a few animals have urethra's that empty into the vagina. Cow's do.

I love the invasion of rats one MrsK

DH, shortly after we married:
Wife or no wife, I can still divorce you.

He's a solicitor.

Ex-colleague: Can I photocopy this before I fax it?
Me: Just fax it, it will go through like that.
EC: But I need to keep it, it's the original! Or what if I put a note on it asking them to fax it straight back when they are finished with it?

My dad once worked with a bloke like that. He'd spent 30 minutes trying to send a fax and eventually moaned to my dad (manger) that the fax machine was broken.

Two seconds later my dad gets a phonecall from another department asking why they've been sent about 30 copies of the same fax..!

He also once got dragged out of his office by a hysterical person on the phone crying about an invasion of rats (dad was in charge of health and safety).

Off he goes to investigate this 'invasion'.

Was a rabbit. On it's own. Spotted in a field outside of the office.

Overreacting much??

The thing with the channel tunnel that baffles me is even if you haven't thought through the logistics of how exactly you'd put a tunnel on the sea bed, does nobody remember it being dug? The moment when the French and English sides met and shook hands through the earth was monumental. I remember being fascinated by it and this image was all over the place.

It was only opened in 1994 I think. I remember the machinery and the photographs and just how amazing it all was. To be fair though, I think most of my contemporaries were having boyfriends and a life.

I was once walking my blue brindle whippet puppy through town when I heard a woman turn to her child and say
" look dear, a white Alsatian". There were no other dogs anywhere in sight.

My London friend who asked whether Edinburgh was further north than Birmingham.

A friend on explaining why she thought her 2 year old's speech was quite poor told me, with a straight face, that said child had been concentrating on other things "He has amazing leadership qualities. We think he is going to be a leader of men".

I spat out my coffee and she gave me a filthy look.

Oh Betty! Thankyou so much. I can now pretend to be clever if the subject ever arises again

We were out for dinner with my parents when my bil turned to my husband and said do you know that there are some people out there who literally have to wait for their next pay cheque to come in at the end of the month so they can spend again they literally have no money left until they get paid. I can't believe people live like that everyone should always have at least 6 month pay in the bank surely everyone knows that. My husband had to point out that actually a large percentage of the population live like that. In fact he didn't mention that we were having a tough time that month so much so I had told my husband to poo at work as we were running out of toilet paper and couldn't afford more until payday. I think my husband did well not to punch him!

My bil once turned to my husband and said do you know that there are s

Playing catchphrase with 20 year old ds, I hold up a card with a picture of an aeroplane with the head of an elephant in it. He stares for a while then gets all excited and yells elephant plane!

And he's at uni. Sigh.