quotes
We all make the occasional slip in everyday conversation.
These are some of the more memorable ones I have come across at work and at home.
Names have been anonymised to protect the not so innocent (and the occasional victim of my sick sense of humour).
Should you wish these individuals to be named, I am sure we can come to some financial arrangement.
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Dashboard message appears 'Offside brake light malfunction'
My passenger questions if it is at the front or back
Dad phones up
Dad - I've seen a great new printer in Morrisons, and they tell me it's got a radio built in.
Me - A printer with a radio? Are you sure?
Dad - The salesman said it had wireless capability
SW - I went out with an ox once.
AS - I always set my watch ten minutes fast. I would rather be late than early
AN talking about her partner and his contribution to the smooth running of the household
AN
- You don't keep a dog if you can bark yourself
DW – What’s Ben’s surname in IT?
Me – Nevis
DW – Thanks
Debbie Warburton – There used to be someone in my old office called Debbie Warburton
Me - That's strange. There is also someone in this office called Debbie Warburton
SW – The patient is going to have a transsexual examination
SW was discussing a patient who had undergone a flexible sigmoidoscopy examination, or a flexi sig.
SW – The patient has had a sexy flig
We were discussing the progress of a violent USA hurricane
Me – It is due to hit the coast at 1pm local time
DW – What, our local time or their local time?
I was requesting some patient details I required with probably the most stunning of our information analysts. After going through the list of diagnosis, age and other demographics, I had a last minute thought
Me – Oh, and can we have sex?
JB – Yes, but it will cost you an Eccles cake
DW – I’m going to have highlighted lowlights in my hair
DW – All of us slept like logs last night
CJ – What, you woke up in the fireplace?
After the morning of the great hurricane in 1987, I ventured into Canterbury with a small group of colleagues to survey the damage. A park was covered in a deep bed of leaves.
KD - I wonder where they came from?
SW - The only thing I had on this morning was Christmas Lights
GN gets a tray of drinks knocked over by an unknown female student in the crowded back bar of the City Arms
GN - You stupid f***ing, freckle faced, f***ing cow!
MW, drunken Irishman recounting his war years in the Bell & Crown
MW
- You know, they shot every living thing in that field, even the haystacks
AB and FM in conversation about AB's daughter's job
AB - She was a hospital administrator, but then she went to university
FM - What does she do now, then?
AB - Oh, she is still a hospital administrator
When finally arrested after crashing his car, GP was asked what had happened.
GP, as reported by the Kentish Gazette, famously replied That's your job to find out.
RM was stopped in Forty Acres Road for exceeding the regulation pace
Policeman - Do you realise you were doing 39mph in a 30mph limit?
RM - You're lucky, I normally do 50 along here
Walking back from Kent University after a stunning John Hiseman concert
IG - I'd give my right arm to play drums like him