Comments on: We had joy we had fun

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:02:40 +0000

Dan - I’m sorry I haven’t given you some translations yet, I’ve been rather snowed under recently.

Here goes:

Double glazing shop = A shop that sells double glazing
Alcopops = pops that are alco
Jolly Japes = Japes that are jolly
Wonky = Skewiff

That is all.

By: Dan Leone

Dan Leone — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:39:39 +0000

Forgive me T’Real Dan. I am a stupid American and need a translator (similar to Clarke Griswald’s in European Vacation!)

double-glazing shop?
alcopops?
jolly japes?
wonky?

I still laughed my “arse” off though!

By: Oli

Oli — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:02:55 +0000

I once got a call from a conservatory company, and had them thinking I was interested in getting a quote (I genuinely was) up to the point of my directions telling them to “go down the drive, through the main archway, first door on the right and we’re on the top floor”.
I was told that perhaps my property “was not in an appropriate location for a conservatory”.
“Are you sure you don’t want to come and have a look….?”

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:56:46 +0000

Our favorite prank was playing “purse.” Would would tie a fishing line to a purse and toss it on the side of the road and wait in the bushes. Then when someone stopped to pick it up we’d pull it away. Eventually we got bored with that and we upped the ante. This involved simply filling it with dog crap and just allowing people to stop and pick it up and bring it in their cars. As we watched from nearby treetops, we’d laugh our asses off when the car would stop a few hundred feet down the road and toss it out the window.

Talk about bastards.

By: Helen

Helen — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:09:16 +0000

Ha - that made me laugh. We’re in the process of dealing with double glazing firms and I hate them all - you’ve just made up for all the hassle we’ve had recently. Thanks Dan!

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:44:33 +0000

I fall for the old “smile and wave” every time. It has me wondering for hours who was just waving at me.

The only prank call I can remember making as a kid was the old classic, “Is your refrigerator running?” “Yes, why?” “You’d better go get it before it gets away!!!”

Yes, I was lame back then too.

By: whit

whit — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:16:58 +0000

Caller ID has killed the prank call. Glad you had a good run.

By: Oli

Oli — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:10:17 +0000

I still do that Dan - people have a built-in mechanism to return the gesture to anyone who waves and smiles; they can’t help it.

Even if they wander away thinking “I don’t even know that person after all”, they’ve smiled and waved. I think this is a Good Thing.

You can’t do it all that often though (at least not in the same town), as for some strange reason you get called things like “That Mad Guy Who Waves at People For No Reason). I think this is a Bad Thing.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:52:39 +0000

Sounds good to me. When I first got my driving license I used to take great pleasure in beeping my horn and waving cheerfully at random pedestrians. The look of puzzlement as they waved back and tried to work out who they knew in a clapped out brown ford fiesta was priceless.

I might have another go at that today actually.

By: People in the Sun

People in the Sun — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 03:03:19 +0000

We used to press two intercom buttons in our apartment building and wait for neighbors to answer, each thinking the other one was downstairs calling for no reason. It was the funniest thing in the world. Maybe I should do it again?

When we grew up, we used to hang out in mall parking lots and seeing all the drivers searching for a parking spot we used to stand near a car close to the entrance and pretend we were looking for our keys, and after a few minutes we just continued walking as if nothing happened. We did get busted by the police who suspected we were trying to steal cars, so I wouldn’t recommend doing that.

Damn, I think your story was still better.