GasBandit

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I got a dashcam. Today I tested it out on the lunch drive, and checked out the footage when I got back to the office to see how well it works.

Pretty well.

Didn't know it had a microphone though.

Hearing myself sing "Snakes on a Plane" is kinda cringey.
 
Client: "We would like you to invent a new English word to represent this concept we have for our new product line."

Us: "Firstly, that's not how translation works. Secondly, there is already an English word to represent the concept you're using for your product line. Several words, in fact. Your new concept is not new at all, it was first developed in the early 20th century."

Client: "We're paying you."

Us: "Fine, from now on your product's core concept is known as glormping."
 
Client: "We would like you to invent a new English word to represent this concept we have for our new product line."

Us: "Firstly, that's not how translation works. Secondly, there is already an English word to represent the concept you're using for your product line. Several words, in fact. Your new concept is not new at all, it was first developed in the early 20th century."

Client: "We're paying you."

Us: "Fine, from now on your product's core concept is known as glormping."
Because you are clearly an ad agency, not a translation agency... right?
 
"Wrong verse."
Been there.
And then you're all embarrassed, but then you're all, "Wait, I'm the only one here."

--Patrick
My daughter has been taking voice lessons, and now yells at me whenever I'm singing in the car and say "oops," because you're just supposed to keep going when you mess up. ;)
 

GasBandit

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My daughter has been taking voice lessons, and now yells at me whenever I'm singing in the car and say "oops," because you're just supposed to keep going when you mess up. ;)
The problem was, I tried to repeat the chorus where an instrumental was supposed to go :p so keeping going would have compounded the mistake.
 
The problem was, I tried to repeat the chorus where an instrumental was supposed to go :p so keeping going would have compounded the mistake.
The point is to not acknowledge it, but the actual thing I was saying was that I always acknowledge it and get yelled at.
 
My daughter has been taking voice lessons, and now yells at me whenever I'm singing in the car and say "oops," because you're just supposed to keep going when you mess up. ;)
I was performing Papageno's aria from "The Magic Flute" (in German) and accidentally sang the second half of verse two in place of the end of verse one. So when I got to verse two, I just substituted the part I originally skipped in verse one, assuming that because it wasn't the same thing over again, it would be harder to notice.

Nobody noticed...or if they did, nobody said anything. Probably because of the German.

--Patrick
 
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