My most gullible momentSomeone once told me that gullible wasn't in the dictionary and I went, "yeah yeah ha ha" but when they were gone that didn't stop me checking. What was YOUR most gullible moment? Zero points for buying an icon on b3ta.
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rob, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 18:33)
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NappleOk not me, but one of my proudest moments with "Dipsy", 19yr old apprentice in our office, who is so sheltered you'd think she's been living in a cellar in Austria...
So anyway i'm having lunch and she asks me what i've got, so i tell her everything and then say "and an apple".
"a napple?" asks she.
"that's right, a nappl"... thinking i'll have some fun... "it's the old latin for 'green frui't. That's why I call it a nappl, i thought everyone knew that?".
"Really?"
"...yep, however over time they added an 'e' and then during the renaissance they made the 'n' silent, like in a lot of words and over time it just got forgotten and so it isn't used anymore."
"oh wow, i never knew!" and she was genuinely pleased with herself.
Cut to 3 weeks later when she storms up to me saying she made a fool of herself infront of one of the directors by telling this story, until she got shot down.
Solution: told her it wasn't me and she dreamt it.
Dipsy's great, got a few more about that daft bint.
(, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 20:10, 4 replies)
That's not so far from the truthIIRC they used to call it A Napple and somewhere along the way the N drifted.
(, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 20:20, closed)
The D in Big D doesn't stand for Dipsy does it?.
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Fireflier La la la la, not listening on, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 20:26,
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Ahemen.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_and_an
It's in Bill Bryson's "Mother tongue" but i'm blowed if I'm wading through the whole book to find one sentence.
(, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 20:44, closed)
Sounds likeA battle of wits against an unarmed oponent.
(, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 0:24, closed)
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