You may have heard a news story about a village on Merseyside called Lunt, where the local Yoof take great pleasure in altering the road signs in an amusing way. A local councillor is proposing to change the name to "Launt" which sounds posher and less amenable to drunken adjustment. Today's Guardian published an amusing Limerick from a reader, which I take the liberty of brazenly copying here for it's rhyming genius:
"A Merseyside village called Lunt
Has commissioned the vicar to hunt
For a man with the pluck
To rename it to Tuck
So the sign can't be altered to ****"
In other news, our office has been fielding hundreds of calls from people over 60 who haven't received their new national bus passes. Those who haven't received them have got a month's extension to their old cards, plus the issue of a temporary card which will get them through to September, while we compile the database and send it off to the printer. Seems the problem has been caused by some really basic software errors: if no date of birth entered the new card wasn't processed. No warning or error message; additionally, an address field had a limit to the number of letters to be entered: exceed it and no card produced. Again no warning or error message. Morons.
Some of the people that have called have stopped us in our tracks: Gary Baldy, for instance. A Colin Combover. And one today which had my colleagues giggling uncontrollably,: it took the phone being passed onto a third person before anyone could overcome their fits: Barry Bodfish. Now what is wrong with that?
8 comments:
I had two gay friends called Vince Forehead and Tony Cheek.
Let me say that again, I had two friends, Vince Forehead and Tony Cheek, they were not a couple. (Digs even deeper hole....no pun intended)
Made up.
I once had a boss named Dick Hertz..
Hahaha - there's a place called Quat mear me and I'm dying to stick an 'S' on the start :]
Funny names on the phone are just great - I've received some great ones when I worked as technical support, especially names from Japan, China and the States.
Not made up. These people wanted their passes!
I wonder if there is such a place called Twunt?
Sorry, all my fault. I have been telling every passenger who gets on with an Around Torbay pass to phone you AT ONCE!
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