How Long is a Foot-Long Sub?
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Of all the stupid questions I've heard in life, this takes the cake... I went into a sub shop that sells sub sandwiches either 6" or a foot (12" of course) in length. This young lady came in and asked the guy behind the counter, "How long is the foot-long sandwich?" Of course, I'm assuming she wanted to see how long it was for real, but really... :-D Anyone else hear really really stupid, obvious questions, like "Do you make sandwiches here at the deli?" Sincerely Yours, Brian Hart "And that's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and the children are above-average." - Garrison Keillor
The one I like the most is when you lose something and search for it for a long time... after you find it, someone tells you "you see how it always is in the last place you look for it??" :mad: But of course it is in the last place I look for it, does anybody keep searching after finding what they want?? -- LuisR -------- Luis Alonso Ramos Chihuahua, Mexico www.luisalonsoramos.com
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The one I like the most is when you lose something and search for it for a long time... after you find it, someone tells you "you see how it always is in the last place you look for it??" :mad: But of course it is in the last place I look for it, does anybody keep searching after finding what they want?? -- LuisR -------- Luis Alonso Ramos Chihuahua, Mexico www.luisalonsoramos.com
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Of all the stupid questions I've heard in life, this takes the cake... I went into a sub shop that sells sub sandwiches either 6" or a foot (12" of course) in length. This young lady came in and asked the guy behind the counter, "How long is the foot-long sandwich?" Of course, I'm assuming she wanted to see how long it was for real, but really... :-D Anyone else hear really really stupid, obvious questions, like "Do you make sandwiches here at the deli?" Sincerely Yours, Brian Hart "And that's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and the children are above-average." - Garrison Keillor
Two minutes back, I was writing an email response to someone. A part of what I actually wrote was: "This email... to see if your email address is still valid..." :-D Yes, I did eventually cut that part out before sending the email. (And yes, I did cut it out before reading this post.) ------- Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. (Francis Bacon) Nature, to be apprehended, must be obeyed. (Ayn Rand)
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Two minutes back, I was writing an email response to someone. A part of what I actually wrote was: "This email... to see if your email address is still valid..." :-D Yes, I did eventually cut that part out before sending the email. (And yes, I did cut it out before reading this post.) ------- Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. (Francis Bacon) Nature, to be apprehended, must be obeyed. (Ayn Rand)
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Of all the stupid questions I've heard in life, this takes the cake... I went into a sub shop that sells sub sandwiches either 6" or a foot (12" of course) in length. This young lady came in and asked the guy behind the counter, "How long is the foot-long sandwich?" Of course, I'm assuming she wanted to see how long it was for real, but really... :-D Anyone else hear really really stupid, obvious questions, like "Do you make sandwiches here at the deli?" Sincerely Yours, Brian Hart "And that's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and the children are above-average." - Garrison Keillor
While in college, a friend and I went to a Kentucky Fried Chicken to get some food. Larry was having trouble deciding what to order. In a true state of indecision, he turned to the young lady there to take the order and said "How big are your breasts?"... It was one of the few times I saw him embarassed. Ed
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While in college, a friend and I went to a Kentucky Fried Chicken to get some food. Larry was having trouble deciding what to order. In a true state of indecision, he turned to the young lady there to take the order and said "How big are your breasts?"... It was one of the few times I saw him embarassed. Ed
LOL :-D. I can truely feel for poor Larry in this case, as I have done the exact same thing. It was at a KFC too, strangely enough... David Wulff dwulff@battleaxesoftware.com
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Of all the stupid questions I've heard in life, this takes the cake... I went into a sub shop that sells sub sandwiches either 6" or a foot (12" of course) in length. This young lady came in and asked the guy behind the counter, "How long is the foot-long sandwich?" Of course, I'm assuming she wanted to see how long it was for real, but really... :-D Anyone else hear really really stupid, obvious questions, like "Do you make sandwiches here at the deli?" Sincerely Yours, Brian Hart "And that's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and the children are above-average." - Garrison Keillor
I don't really understand why you consider that question to be strange. I have asked exactly the same question in a sub shop in California a couple of years ago. Since I live in Europe and is used to meters, grams and other units from the SI system I have no idea how long a 'foot' is. And while we are on the subject, how much is an 'lbs' and how is it supposed to be pronounced? :) /Mike
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Of all the stupid questions I've heard in life, this takes the cake... I went into a sub shop that sells sub sandwiches either 6" or a foot (12" of course) in length. This young lady came in and asked the guy behind the counter, "How long is the foot-long sandwich?" Of course, I'm assuming she wanted to see how long it was for real, but really... :-D Anyone else hear really really stupid, obvious questions, like "Do you make sandwiches here at the deli?" Sincerely Yours, Brian Hart "And that's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and the children are above-average." - Garrison Keillor
This isn't quite as good as the comments above, but... Part of my job is to answer help line calls for the apps I write, and once I got a call from a user that for some reason had deleted some vital files off her PC. So I told he to go to a DOS prompt, and navigate to my app's directory. Once there I told her to type "dir *.*". I heard lots of (too many) keys being pressed, but let it go. The woman said that DOS was telling her "Bad command or file name". So she tried again, and again. Doh! Some time later I realised what she was doing. She was typing "dirstardotstar"!!! :rolleyes: I think for me this comes tops, close by the many users that can't seem to find the shift key. :confused:
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I don't really understand why you consider that question to be strange. I have asked exactly the same question in a sub shop in California a couple of years ago. Since I live in Europe and is used to meters, grams and other units from the SI system I have no idea how long a 'foot' is. And while we are on the subject, how much is an 'lbs' and how is it supposed to be pronounced? :) /Mike
I live in Europe (Britain), and we have to be very careful sometimes when say reading an American recipie book. We use pounds (lbs), but for some reason a pound (lb) in America is different to a pound (lb) in Britain. Is it something to do with the weather? :confused:
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Of all the stupid questions I've heard in life, this takes the cake... I went into a sub shop that sells sub sandwiches either 6" or a foot (12" of course) in length. This young lady came in and asked the guy behind the counter, "How long is the foot-long sandwich?" Of course, I'm assuming she wanted to see how long it was for real, but really... :-D Anyone else hear really really stupid, obvious questions, like "Do you make sandwiches here at the deli?" Sincerely Yours, Brian Hart "And that's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and the children are above-average." - Garrison Keillor
Ha, what about the quote in Bill Gate's "The Road Ahead". I forget which page it's on but it refers to the new "wired" world where everything is connected to the net: "Users will be able to search for anything anywhere - even if they don't know what they're looking for"...or something along those lines! Stravaiger Le gach deagh dhurachd
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I live in Europe (Britain), and we have to be very careful sometimes when say reading an American recipie book. We use pounds (lbs), but for some reason a pound (lb) in America is different to a pound (lb) in Britain. Is it something to do with the weather? :confused:
A pound in America is 16 ounces. A pound in Britain is about $1.60. Badum-ching! Uggggggg... X| Sorry about that.
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A pound in America is 16 ounces. A pound in Britain is about $1.60. Badum-ching! Uggggggg... X| Sorry about that.
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I live in Europe (Britain), and we have to be very careful sometimes when say reading an American recipie book. We use pounds (lbs), but for some reason a pound (lb) in America is different to a pound (lb) in Britain. Is it something to do with the weather? :confused:
A pound is a pound the world round (16 ounces). A Pint however is 16 fluid ounces in the US, and 20 Fluid ounces in the UK. In other words, a pint of pure water weighs one pound in the US, and a pound and a quarter in the UK. One of the endearing features of the Irish Bars in Connecticut (and to a lesser degree in New York) is that they serve US beer in US Pints, and Irish/English beer in UK pints.:-D Dan "Weights and Measures" Smart
