Mrs Stone
A (thankfully) ex-colleague of mine was one day very, very annoyed with some language software she'd ordered online. Incensed. She'd had it over a month and she still couldn't converse fluently in her chosen language.

"Why don't you write them a letter of complaint?", I suggested.

And so she did. It started like this:

"Dear Mrs Rosetta Stone..."

/edit and that's all I have. Other than the story of a colleague who used beans as a lubricant, but I'm saving that one.
( rofl harris, Mon 7 Mar 2011, 15:34, 16 replies)

Hahahahaha! The stupid bitch!
I have no idea what any of this means.
( Geoff the Clownfish You know Myra, some people might think you're cute, Mon 7 Mar 2011, 16:11, closed)

rosetta stone is an educational language tool.

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Mon 7 Mar 2011, 16:43, closed)

Thanks - never heard of it

( Geoff the Clownfish You know Myra, some people might think you're cute, Mon 7 Mar 2011, 16:54, closed)

or indeed
a large stone with writings in three different languages on, enabling us to decipher for the first time, ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, the name of which has somewhat cleverly been lifted for use on a computer based educational tool aimed at teaching a new language to the purchaser.
(dchurch bah, Tue 8 Mar 2011, 7:48, closed)

rosetta stone was a 1970s transexual pornstar

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Mon 7 Mar 2011, 16:46, closed)

I'll stick with this answer

( Geoff the Clownfish You know Myra, some people might think you're cute, Mon 7 Mar 2011, 16:55, closed)

the rosetta stone is an ancient tablet
with the same text written in three different scripts
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 7 Mar 2011, 16:49, closed)

Bluff!

( Geoff the Clownfish You know Myra, some people might think you're cute, Mon 7 Mar 2011, 16:55, closed)

I like what you've done there

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 7 Mar 2011, 17:02, closed)

Stop with your lies, you horrid bully!

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Mon 7 Mar 2011, 16:56, closed)

it's an affliction
I'm currently seeking counselling.

If you could point me in the direction of an irreverant comedy website I'm sure the patrons would be the people best placed to help me.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 7 Mar 2011, 17:03, closed)

No problem.
www.crusebereavementcare.org.uk/
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Mon 7 Mar 2011, 17:08, closed)

it was the key to deciphering hieroglyphics

( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Mon 7 Mar 2011, 17:58, closed)

It was the key to deciphering Greek
You see, we knew what these hieroglyph things were, all very lovely, and next to some was some dodgy text, so they assumed 'oh, that must be the same shit as the hierogylphs, just differently written, it all looks a bit Egypt-y anyway.' So they went about turning that into words, all very easy, and then they spend the next 40 years using right proper nouns from the written Egyptian to try and decode all that Greek mumbo jumbo that nobody knew anything about.

Science.
(Frozen_Banana Shaved against the grain; thoroughly unrewarding., Tue 8 Mar 2011, 7:17, closed)

science indeed

( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 20:15, closed)

To be fair, I used to think this
I was constantly amazed at how many languages Mrs Stone spoke. She must be some kind of super awesome helpful word-witch! Then I turned 8, and the world became just a little less magical.
( kappynitty doubled your entendre on, Tue 8 Mar 2011, 13:13, closed)