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top tip - do not electrocute your boss, and when he jumps out of his skin do not laugh hysterically!
top tip - do not electrocute your boss, and when he jumps out of his skin do not laugh hysterically!
posted by MortimerBones at
2:36 PM
7 Comments:
Why not ?? Is it not a function of management to be so abused ? It was where I used to work.
You could 'do a Byron' - i.e. electrocute his doorknob (and no Maffi that isn't a euphemism).
At the risk of being pedantic, I was under the impression that one could only "electrocute" a living thing. Whereas a doorknob, (Be it Byron's, Shakespeare's, or any other literary figure's), being an inanimate object can only be "electrified".
Pray tell, why did Lord Byron electrify his doorknob as it doesn't seem a very friendly thing to do?
PS Still admire the socks. They're real bobbydazzlers
Being even more pedantic, I suspect that to electrocute someone, you actually have to kill them. I devoutly hope that this has not happened in this case.
I tug my forelock to those who have pointed out my incorrect English usage - it should indeed have been electrify.
Moreover, my 'constant companion' has pointed out, that it was Shelley, not Byron who did so. It was KH, a student jape, while at University College, Oxford. I believe it was to take some petty revenge on his 'scout' ( room cleaner - in those days, some gent).
For this offence, he was 'sent down' - which makes it all the more bizarre that Univ. has an incredibly tasteless memorial to him.
Re socks - thank you very much. Said socks now have a HUGE hole in one heel, and are not really darnable (even if I could) as they are cheapo, artificial fibres. I do have a few other stunners - it makes them very easy to pair :-)
Miss T Thank you for the information on 19th(?) century poets and university terminology.
At my Alma Mater that would have been called "attempted murder" and would have resulted in a court martial.
But hey ho among the ruling classes I assume that the scout survived and it was regarded as high spirits! Maybe the real punishment was the tasteless memorial.
Maybe your avatar is the memorial for your socks but with a tad more taste than Shelley's.
AND DR Bones yet another unfinished tale. How and why did you shock your manager and what was his reaction to your mirth?
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