Screwed up again - open mouth, insert foot

[cantdrv55]

In Chicago on a company team building outing tonight. Bowling. Ninety extremely competitive sales people getting drunk, eating pizza, talking smack.

Someone takes a poll on who's gone bowling lately. When they get to me, I say "I haven't bowled since I cut-off my mullet back in the '80s". Dead silence. Turns out, the manager who set this up REALLY likes bowling AND is from the South. He did not like my redneck joke.

Boy, I wish I could do that one over.

[rattlsnak]

Mullets were in every state. Its in the south were people STILL have them.

[928ram]

...on men anyway. Seems they've never gone out of style in the lesbian crowd, and can be found all over the NW.

[widebody911]

I did one last weekend. The chick that lives across the street had the bulk of her house painted a couple months ago, and they came out last week and installed new gutters and finished the painting.

She was out watering her lawn and I said "Looks nice now that it's all trimmed and neat..."

[masraum]

Originally posted by widebody911
I did one last weekend. The chick that lives across the street had the bulk of her house painted a couple months ago, and they came out last week and installed new gutters and finished the painting.

She was out watering her lawn and I said "Looks nice now that it's all trimmed and neat..."

Was she wearing pants???

[Bryan Beaumont]

That's how I like it as well. "All trimmed and neat..." mmmm good.

[RANDY P]

Originally posted by cantdrv55
In Chicago on a company team building outing tonight. Bowling. Ninety extremely competitive sales people getting drunk, eating pizza, talking smack.

Someone takes a poll on who's gone bowling lately. When they get to me, I say "I haven't bowled since I cut-off my mullet back in the '80s". Dead silence. Turns out, the manager who set this up REALLY likes bowling AND is from the South. He did not like my redneck joke.

Boy, I wish I could do that one over.

HAHAHA! Now that's funny!

They probably take you too seriously overall, that's why they got weird. If the class clown said it, y'all would be laughing hard.

I'm the same way, (when I'm serious, I'm SERIOUS) I try to be funny sometimes, everybody either gets upset, weird or scared. Small children start to cry..

It's a hinderance a lot of times being misunderstood.


rjp

[RANDY P]

Originally posted by widebody911
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She was out watering her lawn and I said "Looks nice now that it's all trimmed and neat..."

Shoot, comments like that are what start up those "you never guess what happened to me!" nights that you tell your friends about.

If she's hot, maybe she'll start digging you now..

rjp

[cantdrv55]

Originally posted by RANDY P
They probably take you too seriously overall, that's why they got weird. If the class clown said it, y'all would be laughing hard.

That has to be the reason. I'm not exactly Robin Williams.

[cantdrv55]

Originally posted by widebody911
She was out watering her lawn and I said "Looks nice now that it's all trimmed and neat..."

Please tell us that she's a looker and not some old bat.

[legion]

Man...I'm always cracking smart@$$ jokes at work.

Example: In a unit meeting, my boss asked us what the three components of retirement savings were.

"Pension" one person said.

"401k" another said.

"Embezzlement" I said.

[ZOA NOM]

Originally posted by cantdrv55
That has to be the reason. I'm not exactly Robin Williams.

Yeah, well, you're no Billy Ray Cyrus, either!

[M.D. Holloway]

The real question is didga win?

[wcc]

Good thing I wasn't there cause I think what you said was funny and I would've laughed.

Then there were two.......

[Nathans_Dad]

I might be able to top that one. We are always getting e-mails about getting medical records signed, they tell us we are "delinquent". Problem is that the medical records department is so slow getting the stupid records to us that they are already "delinquent" by the time they are available to sign.

Anyhow, a few months back another e-mail came down from the Chief of Staff saying that we were all delinquent in our records again. This started a new e-mail within our clinic where everyone was basically b!tching about the issue. I, of course, chimed in with some comment about how if the Chief of Staff really wanted to fix the issue he would fix medical records, but I'm sure it was much easier to just send out an e-mail every few weeks.

Little did I know someone had CC'd the e-mail string to the Chief of Staff right before I replied.

DOH!

[widebody911]

Years ago, I was in a project status meeting, and right after giving my update, my boss made the comment "Cool, sounds like you're down to the short strokes..."

[legion]

I didn't do this one, it was an external from India.

I was in a project status meeting, and this gentleman was asked to provide status on his task. He said: "We are now at the fag's end."

The room went silent.

[artplumber]

Legion,
You can't be serious. Don't youse guys know what a fag is in the colonies?

[Z-man]

Last weekend, at our AX season opener, a dealer brought a bunch of Caymans and we had a "Cayman Challenge" at the end of the day - 20 of use donated $$ to charity to be part of the challenge.

So a driver gets in the car and starts rev-rev-revving the engine. I (not so quietly) stated, "Ok, we can tell you've found the gas pedal."

I never realized that when I have my helmet on my head, I talk a but louder than normal -- ya should've seen the look on the driver's face, which was promptly followed by "I'm gonna run you over."

Smooth move, exlax...

-Z.

[MichiganMat]

You're from CA, Chris, you're supposed to be an *******.