Never mind pedantic, just plain hilarious

I had an email from another teacher today telling me that a 'student's behaviour is expectable'

*unacceptable*

Urgh.

I was also recently told by a parent that 'you can't polish a turd' when we were discussing how I tend to work with lower ability students. No mistakes there to be fair but shocking nonetheless.
 
I have a friend who,upon seeing a huge painting on the gable end of an industrial building, said 'Wow! Look at that muriel!' Murals have forever been 'muriels' in our house since....Btw,the correct term for a lot of these is 'malapropisms',I think. We covered them in English A level a million years ago-very amusing:)
 
Venevidivici said:
Btw,the correct term for a lot of these is 'malapropisms',I think. We covered them in English A level a million years ago-very amusing:)
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arent they also refered to as Mondegreens - named after an old poem that people used to get wrong

'and laid him on the green.' became 'and Lady Mondegreen.'
 
Our sales director, on hearing i had secured a big contract, exclaimed 'see, I told you there was light at the end of the rainbow'
someone else told me that he had gone through his son like a ton of bricks. I had to point out that that had to hurt, especially coming out the other end :O
 
These are hilarious!
A former boss of mine used to always say we just need to 'dot the t's and cross the I's' that used to make me laugh inside during every team briefing visualising us spending all day with out eyes crossed!
 
Ha ha. These are hilarious. Slightly different but.... I work in journalism and a colleague once uploaded on to the website a headline containing the word 'pubic' instead of 'public'. Typo danger!
 
SE, I know of a whole batch of council minutes which had to be withdrawn before a meeting and a little sticker placed over each offending 'pubic' before they were handed out to the councillors and hacks. Of course no one would have noticed otherwise and of course everyone peeled the sticker off....

'Massive jobs blow' is another favourite headline in the regionals :p
 
My boss sent a memo out announcing that the Stationary cupboard was moving. I just wrote 'surreal' across the memo and sent it back.
 
My boyfriend is a bit 'thick' to say th least and he comes out with some corkers! He always says relevant instead of irrelevant so we'll have an arguement and he'll say 'its relevant' instead of 'its irrelevant' which always makes me smile cuz it makes me feel like he's agreeing with what im moaning about but really he's just thick haha x :D
 
Loving this thread!

There is a stall on our local market that sells pairs of 'Soxe's' :confused:

I also saw a sign the other day with a great grocer's apostrophe. I can't actually work out what the sentiment of the wording is either. It is outside a restaurant that has recently closed. It says: 'Thank's Chelmsford. We have now relocated to Brentwood.'

So do they mean 'Thank you for all your lovely business, people of Chelmsford.'

Or is it 'Thanks for nothing, Chelmsford! You were rubbish - we're off to Brentwood where we'll be appreciated.' :D
 
A typo rather than anything else, but still funny - A friend of mine wrote on our RC newsletter how depressing it was that due to all the rain we were having to get our willies and rugs out again :eek:
 
This thread has got me crying over my lunch!

I used to work with a German cookery editor who used to show you how to make something and then say..."and there you are, your uncle is Bob!". Used to crack me up.
 
Tzara44 said:
My brother in law says "pacific" instead of "specific" - it drives me nuts!!
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One of my old lecturers used to say this, I never had the heart to correct her :P

tiggybeans said:
I used to work with a German cookery editor who used to show you how to make something and then say..."and there you are, your uncle is Bob!". Used to crack me up.
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Can't stop laughing at this!! Brilliant!
 
An elderly relative of mine told us he traded his Ford Sarah (Sierra) in and got a Ford Madonna (Mondeo).....

On here I love the "Mountain Block" :D
 
A friend of mine once shoutted out in front of her in-laws at her husband "ok, but lets not have a mass debate about it now!!"

And my mum once called out to her friend who had foreign stundents coming to staff with her "good luck with your brazilian"

:D:D:D
 
This was posted on HHO this morning, I shan't say where, that would be cruel, but Mrs Malaprop is alive and doing very nicely, thank you!! :D:D

"I cannot be bothered to delve into environmental studies but I will say one thing that cannot be rebuked, that mankind has had a far greater effect on this planet than any other living species."

Right on man!

Alec.
 
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