Words

Assistant: Well, do you still have that copy of the Specific Plan?
Project Manager: I don’t know where it is.
Assistant: Wasn’t it on your desk yesterday?
Project Manager: Yeah, but I think it’s spread its legs.
Assistant: What?
Project Manager: You know, spread its legs. You know what I mean.
Assistant: Sprouted legs?

1580 Metro Drive
Costa Mesa, California

Co-worker #1: Oh, you have some good supplies. Anything I can steal?
Co-worker #2: Uh, you can have some markers.
Co-worker #1: No, that’s okay; I’ve got markers up the ass.

633 North St. Clair Street
Chicago, Illinois

Project manager: Thanks, [Craig].
Art director: You mean [Jose]? He’s [Craig].
Project manager: I mean [Jose]. Sorry, I got you mixed up since you’re both wearing yellow shirts.
Art director: My shirt isn’t yellow. Neither is [Craig’s].

6501 Legacy Drive
Plano, Texas

Meeting Lead: The customer wanted another dropdown here for more detail. They have “Category” and “Sub-Category” but they want another one below “Sub-Category”. I suggested “Sub-Sub-Category”.

11 East Superior Street
Duluth, Minnesota

Boss: I was hoping you could take care of it without a bunch of rigor mortis.

1701 Monterey Street
San Luis Obispo, California

Boss: We’re having communication problems.
Underling: We are?
Boss: What?

18115 Campus Way NE
Bothell, Washington

Overheard by: cogalicious

Manager: I hope those envelopes don’t have subpar glue on them.
Boss: I don’t know; I’m a lover not a licker.

7 Middlesex Road
Tyngsboro, Massachusetts

Clerk: I’m startin’ the day with two “ah, shits” and not an “atta boy” in sight.

1400 Douglas Street
Omaha, Nebraska

CEO: I think we should name [the product] SINBAD after [Janet].
Underling: “SINBAD”?
CEO: Single Income, No Boyfriend, and Desperate.

27 Gillies Avenue
Newmarket, Auckland
New Zealand

News rep #1: The reporter wants an expert on idols and graven images…Is it “graven” or “craven”? I couldn’t really hear him.
News rep #2: I don’t know, let me look it up…”Craven: Characterized by abject fear; cowardly.”
News rep #1: Hmm…I don’t know…Is it “graven” or “craven” images?
Director of News: It’s “craven”. Definitely. Those words always go together: craven images.

200 South Craig Street
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania