Thread: Sun July 08th - Sat July 14th

That electronic thesaurus would have come in very handy through the years while talking with the Wife, because i can barely get a word in edge ways when she fires off! PS Carl a genral question to you, there was a really interesting program i really enjoyed watching many years ago from your neck of the woods, it was called bush tucker man, this guy really was the dogs bollocks he would spend very long extended periods in the most hostile enviroment of the Australian outback, but he had all the skills to live quite comfortable, i wonder if he's still around?


Jamie.

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

A funny story...
I used to love shouting at recruits, many people do. But at times you run out of words. I remember I bought myself a pocket electronic thesaurus (this was in the early '90s), to help with my studies I was doing. I thought it'd be fun to use at work, too. I'd call a recruit down to the office, and then, from the office, where they couldn't see me, I'd start berating them about this and that. I'd use the word 'lazy', then hit the required button on the thesaurus, and use all the other words (indolent, apathetic, dull, slothful, etc, etc, etc); it allowed me to go on and on and on...

After a few weeks of this, one recruit got up the courage to say "excuse me bombardier, I'm just wondering what level of education you have". "Why's that, recruit?" I snapped in reply. "Well, he said, you seem to have an extraordinary vocabulary"...