Expensive Mistakescoopsweb 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".
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chthonic, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 11:26)
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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'.
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 30 Oct 2007, 17:39,
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