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coopsweb asks "What's the most expensive mistake you've ever made? Should I mention a certain employee who caused 4 hours worth of delays in Central London and got his company fined £500k?"

No points for stories about the time you had a few and thought it'd be a good idea to wrap your car around a bollard. Or replies consisting of "my wife".

(, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 11:26)
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off topic, but
It was a really quiet afternoon in our office until just now, when our head of accounts was heard to bellow

"NO! IT SMELLS LIKE MEAT!"

Now it's even quieter... should I be worried?
(, Tue 30 Oct 2007, 16:10, 16 replies)
Yes!
You should be very worried. In fact, get out of there now.
(, Tue 30 Oct 2007, 16:13, closed)
BGB
you are right. I'm off. Bye!
(, Tue 30 Oct 2007, 16:14, closed)
"My god did that smell good..."
www.chickenmcnugget.com/video/gijoeporksand.htm
(, Tue 30 Oct 2007, 16:28, closed)
i can smell
gossip in that signature and its twin that i noticed on some other b3tan's the other day...

not expensive and certainly not a mistake, but i just wanted to say how exciting and yay, gossip!
(, Tue 30 Oct 2007, 16:47, closed)
they're not just commenting on
gone-off quorn?
Aldi's milk?
Rancid minge?

Whatever the case, you're gonna need a bigger boat.
(, Tue 30 Oct 2007, 16:48, closed)
@rswipe
Gossip?

I don't know what you mean, I'm sure...
(, Tue 30 Oct 2007, 16:56, closed)
ah well
must be me, i'm a bit PRONE to gossip, if you know what i mean.... x
(, Tue 30 Oct 2007, 17:06, closed)
@rswipe
we know that, you're like an interferring soap-opera granny :D

ps don't kill me :p
(, Tue 30 Oct 2007, 17:09, closed)
So share some gossip!
I heard tell that during the making of the final scene of Enter The Dragon, with the room full of mirrors, they problems shooting that scene, because Bruce Lee's reflection wasn't visible in the mirrors. The reason? Even his REFLECTION was too scared to meet his steely Shaolin gaze.

THE TRUTH: there were no mirrors, he just ran at 72frames per second pausing at each spot for one frame.
(, Tue 30 Oct 2007, 17:11, closed)
Oh, and speaking of Bruce-
Bruce Lee, for all his many strengths, was not very expressive in English. And why should he be? He didn't leave Hong Kong for the US until he was 21 and had no formal schooling.

He did sometimes mangle his verb tenses and screw up his subject-object agreements. Once, in 1967, the milkman left two cartons of skimmed milk and a pint of cottage cheese when Bruce had specifically told him FULL milk and NO cheese. Bruce immediately sat down and wrote him a long, anrgy note. Chuck Norris had a quick glance at it and though he knew it was gibberish he didn't say anything when Bruce left it on the doormat.

Well, it so happened that milkman was Allan Ginsberg who took the note and, without changing a word, published it as his poem 'Howl', perhaps the most famous verse of the Beat Generation. Later Bruce stuffed a whole Aberdeen Angus cow wearing samurai armor up Ginsberg's arse 'for plagiarism'.
(, Tue 30 Oct 2007, 17:39, closed)
Gossip...
Ooohhh, I wonder what it is!


PS: Swipe, you're a nosy old busybody!
(, Wed 31 Oct 2007, 10:52, closed)
I know what the gossip is
It's that rachelswipe eats cake on Wednesdays. Ha!
(, Wed 31 Oct 2007, 11:09, closed)
Cakes AND chips
gossip...

not that she's wrong, necessarily, but gossip nevertheless.
(, Wed 31 Oct 2007, 13:49, closed)
cake! chips! biscuits! chocolate!
All at once too. Disgusting.

*puts nose in air*
*resolves not to eat such rubbish*
*wonders where could get cake from*
(, Wed 31 Oct 2007, 14:38, closed)
I've! Seen ! You! Naked!
And it was a lovely sight...

Oh, and feel free to use my headline style as you wish, you have my agreement...

BTW... you think we've been sussed yet?
(, Wed 31 Oct 2007, 14:50, closed)
*rolls eyes*
Well NOW I do, yes!
(, Wed 31 Oct 2007, 14:52, closed)

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