Pat-isms

[Arch]

We have a lady who volunteers at the centre (and is one of the committee and so on), who sometimes comes out with amusing mistakes. Her lastest today, overheard by a colleague was on the phone to the local mosque, who'd asked if they could borrow our lawn roller - which we seem to have lost. She told them they couldn't borrow it because it had 'vanished off the Friends of the Earth".

She likes her pasta cooked "El Dante" (we think he's a mafia boss), and has been heard referring to the Square Foot garden (a veg patch divided into square feet, for easy maintenance and successional planting) as the Square Root garden.

Our favourite is a stream of conciousness one day, peering out at the gate at something wandering around outside.

"It's a cow. No, it's two people dressed as a cow. No, it's a dog!"

Bless her, she's a stalwart of the organisation, AND entertaining!

 

[Maverick Goose]

Sounds like somebody I used to work with, who once asked 'do two half pints make a pint?' and 'how do blind people know when they're awake?'.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Nice colleague to have around Arch.

Write her sayings down - when you have enough, publish and be Damed.

Dame Arch has a nice ring to it.

 

[ThePainInSpain]

My missus is Pat and exactly like the woman described.

She has a friend named June and she is the same, and when the 2 are together it's like listening to a different language. But they both understand each other.

June's other half and me started a dictionary, I'll have to dig it out and let you know...............

 

[Gromit]

The best thing about Pat is Milly.

 

[Arch]

The best thing about Pat is Milly.

oh yes, Milly is very cute.

(Milly is a small dog of indeterminate parentage).

 

[ufkacbln]

We hadn't held a paediatric clinic for a couple of weeks......

Sitting in the staff room, my foreign colleague (a young lady some 30 years younger than me) asked:

"When are we going to have children?"

 

[gbb]

I love these ones, we had Arthur at work who used to utter 'arthurisms'...words that sounded like what he was trying to say...but the wrong word altogether. Wish i could remember some.

Also had Tony at my last employers...i was near him while he was talking to someone on the phone.
The conversation went along a bit, then he said 'i don't know really, it's a bit testicle'

I looked at him...

When he'd finished, i asked him who he was talking to...'oh, the girl at blah blah'

You do realise what you said, don't you...

 

[wobbler]

I do that too. I get ravenous and ravishing mixed up, I get some strange looks in KFC.