This is a test, so don't bother to read this. Ah too late, you just did.
Well as you're here I may as well tell you that I am still at work , it's 8pm now waiting for a file to save for the Alton Towers job.
Today has been fraught, the atmosphere in the office is very bad as Stanley our accountant who does bugger all apart from make sure he gets paid for doing bugger all was in yesterday. As normal he went through the entire staff, slagged us all off and barked on about how the company is failing and we're all incompetent. He's a racist and all round horror. He called me an immigrant recently, an insult I'd have him on an Industrial Tribunal for before you could say 'Sangatte Detention Centre'
I'd call him an F'ing *ew, but that would be 'racialistic' and 'prejudiced' innit! Also I do quite like kosher things too, so have to be careful, I'm rarely seen without a 'baigel' in my face, chomping on a 'cholla' or fishing a pickled gherkin out of a big ole jar. 'The Producers' is one of my favorite films too and I always liked Maureen Lipman in the BT adds and I think Vanessa Feltz is great (so long as you don't have to look at her, SHEESH). Can someone point the poor girl in the direction of Rigby & Peller PURLEASE!
So I had words with one of my bosses, aparently he's going to be given his marching orders, but I'll believe it when my foot is connecting rapidly with his over sized arse as he leaves the office.
OY FAVOY, ENOUGH ALREADY!
By way of an invitation and by means of changing the subject rapidly, I would like to invite you all to suggest words that you'd like to see returned to the modern lexicon. There's always a tedious thing in the paper every year when the Oxford English Dictionary is republished about words that have been newly entered. Normally nowadays it to do with street 'culcha', chavs or office jargon. But what about words that drop off, words that people no longer tend to use. My friend Sam used the word 'Luncheon' today in an email. I was thrilled, no one takes 'Luncheon' anymore, they 'grab a sangwidge', go to Pret a Minge or 'work thru'. 'Thru', now that's a word I hate, lazy American import, Monday thru Wednesday, what rot!
So Luncheon has re-entered my modern lexicon.
Those who know me well, know I'm fond of the words 'betwixt, splice, twain, Tis, thou, etc. So if you have any suggestions, do let me know.
Right, file has now saved, better lock up the office as it get's spooky and you know how I think everywhere is hauted, COS IT IS!
3 comments:
I quite like the word hobbledehoy, but I really like the words japery and tomfoolery.
Doctor Pangloss, you can always be relied upon to come up with fine suggestions. However, despite the fact I like to think (but clearly don't) have a good and colourful vocabulary (whom the commuting masses of London Bridge Station have enjoyed at full volume on more than one occasion), I actually haven't the foggiest idea what 'HOBBLEDEHOY' means. I love the word, don't get me wrong, it belongs in my modern lexicon no doubt, but I need to know what it means (and I think London does too). Your other suggestions of 'Japery' & 'tomfoolery' are fine suggestions. However (cos you knew an 'However' was coming) they are still used in, if not common parlance, 'modern' parlance. I know , I know, I'm being strict, but as the Laird of GDH, that is my want, so there!
I believe HOBBLEDEHOY to be an undesirable type of scallywag.
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