Ah, my Mother...
...wouldn't swap her for anyone else's, but she comes out with some priceless no-brainers, sometimes.

One night over dinner she was telling me that her work had issued her 'one of them UPS memory sticks' to cart softcopies and stuff back and forth.

Used by now to such terms being uttered with such comedic inaccuracy by her, I soldiered on - with hindsight I should've known better.

Being a bit of a tech spod I asked 'How big is it?' She replied by holding her hands about four inches apart on the table and saying 'About that big, give or take.'

One of many occasions where I've held my head in my hands in my mother's presence.
(thatblokeoverthere not quite as much an arsehole as I thought, Sun 9 Jan 2005, 18:04, Reply)