Accounting is fun...
I'm a grown up (nearly 30) and training to be an accountant. I am unable to hear the accounting phrases 'double entry' or 'penetration' without giggling. And people saving their analysis files as 'anal.' isn't much better.....

I need a new career....
(kubes, Thu 17 Sep 2009, 18:33, 8 replies)

Bean counting
Today I was doing some basic checks on the number of items in an inventory of several pages, but couldn't be bothered to write "cumulative" next to the total at the bottom of every page. Fortunately I noticed before handing it to my boss, and spent a while writing "ul" on each sheet.
(Elephantine Galoot is on the M62 heading east at, Thu 17 Sep 2009, 19:13, closed)

I'm a lecturer
in construction related things.

I love to place special emphasis on certain words when I'm talking about the *erection* of temporary works and the like. Piling gets emphasis placed on *shaft.* There's a fair amount of *wood* going on too.

It's great to see a few students click to what's going on.

No one has yet called me out on it, apart from one year when I mentioned that contractors often try to get extra money by *slipping it in* when preparing a valuation. I got a very stern "you should know better" look from one of my students on that occasion. I felt very small.

It hasn't stopped me though!
(dxg, Thu 17 Sep 2009, 20:26, closed)

I did civils at uni
and we had some basic accounting lectures from this old but awesome guy.

He kept mentioning "double entry" and pausing to allow people to snigger.

Not many of our lecturers mentioned erections and shafts very often though...
( thistle, Thu 17 Sep 2009, 20:56, closed)

penetration...
tehehehe
(applysomepressure, Thu 17 Sep 2009, 21:17, closed)

being in a very similar situation
I've managed to get over the comedy value of "double entry", but the "anal." abbreviation still gets me. Someone, without evident irony, had labelled their spreadsheet analysing the fourth cash account held by a business as "cash 4 anal" which really sounded like a phone box advert.
( kingofpork is the king of pork, Thu 17 Sep 2009, 22:40, closed)

Accruals
I am also an accountant and afflicted by a similar sense of humour disorder. At any wedding, the bit about "rings", "placing your ring on the bride's finger" etc always cracks me up...

Perhaps some actuarial work might cure this problem.
(Mandrill, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 1:53, closed)

Corporate Meetings
Another good source of mirth is setting a "challenge phrase" that you have to use in a meaningful context at weekly meetings. My bean counter colleagues and I play this regularly. This week's phrase is "porridge gun" and I think this is going to be a toughy to slip into our strategic planning session with senior management this week.
(Mandrill, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 1:56, closed)

I found a similar snigger-inducing file
on the works network.

Turned out to be two Finite Element Analyses video edited to run simultaneously (showing the differences in dynamic stresses before and after a change, if you're interested).

Saved as double-anal.mpg.

Explaining why you're laughing at that to a guy with a poor grasp of your language and no experience of Porn is... well, difficult. Especially in an open-plan office.
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 3:10, closed)