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This is a question Foot in Mouth Syndrome

What's the worst social gaffe you've ever made? When you know you've said the wrong thing to the wrong person and wish the ground would swallow you up. In other words you've just contracted a bad case of foot in mouth syndrome. Tell us your stories and we'll share your pain.

(, Tue 20 Apr 2004, 22:27)
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Just a few
1) My boss (middle-aged, male) once said to his boss (a bit younger, female):

"Is that a new hair-do, or did you just sleep on it funny"

2) My sister-in-law had baby about 5 weeks before my wife. We met them to admire the sprog, and my sister-in-law says: "It's great being able to touch my toes again", at which, my ever tackful spouse - 8 months pregnant - gracefully bends over and touches her toes. "I've been keeping up my yoga" she says.

3) And this is one of mine. I worked with a bloke who was a real bloke. Played rugby, played cricket, drank a lot, talked sport to his mates on the phone for at least an hour a day. He also had a massive appetite, and would arrive at work with about ten bits of fruit, get though a couple of bottles of coke, sarnies, etc, and whenever someone brought in cakes, he'd be first there, same with a buffet - he'd shamelessly be queueing up for his second plateful before some had got their first. His other really annoying habit was to give EVERYONE a nickname.

Anyway...I was mucking about on Googl3, as you do, when someone commented that Mike was a real truffle hound when it came to cakes. So I set about searching for a nice picture of a truffle pig to pin on his desk. Instead, I found this:

members.aol.com/webloid/15trufle.htm

I put it on his desk, but almost felt sorry for him when he found it, especially as he knew that everyone else had read it first. Anyway, Truffle Bear is now his name.
(, Wed 21 Apr 2004, 16:07, Reply)

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