then again, my dad once tried to convince his accountant he needed to sex the crocodiles

[freckles_and_doubt]

I know the PA system in my local supermarket is bad (even when they're not trying to talk over their current, premature soundtrack of bad R&B covers of syrupy Christmas carols), but I'd swear that this morning the manager said "Manfred, calling Manfred, please will all available chicken sexers come to Receiving". I... I think my brain is stunned.

I also wish to record for posterity the indecent amount of pleasure I'm finding in tracking down weird and wacky kids' books for my three-year-old niece. This morning: I STINK!, which is a pleasingly rumbustious soliloquy from a garbage truck.

Comments

[origamitiger.livejournal.com]

Dirty Bertie

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if you're referring to the chicken-sexing or the kids' book...? ;>

[origamitiger.livejournal.com]

the kids book

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Good lord. Those seem suitably revolting, I'm sure Da Niece will love them. Thanks for the tip!

[dancing-crow.livejournal.com]

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

I'm loving all these recommendations! thanks, looks like fun.

[bronchitikat.livejournal.com]

Go your Dad! I'm sure a lot of people would love to do that with their accountants. Specially Accountancy Departments who try to rule the lives of those in companies who actually Work on things which make the company profits!

Fungus the Bogeyman?

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

I don't think most people have the opportunity to do that to their accountants, most companies don't, in fact, produce live crocodiles commercially, and "you have to sex the [technical IT widget]s now" doesn't quite have the same ring to it...

[bronchitikat.livejournal.com]

Shame. Though, for practical purposes, I'd advise keeping one, or two, accountants, just not a whole departmentful. As with HR, a misnomer if ever I heard one, they get to think the company is actually run for their benefit, by them!

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Perhaps companies should be aiming for one or two accountants, and one or two crocodiles, for threat purposes also extendible to HR.

[bronchitikat.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a good idea, until you realise that the one or two crocodiles are actually running HR (think Ros in Monsters Inc), & the Typing Pool - which is daft cos most people know how to operate a word processor these days.