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Exam question: "What is a co-operative?"
Answer: "It's a kind of shop that is not as dear as places like Marks and Spencer."
    Posted by JT on 14 Dec 2009. + (2) - (1) Permalink

Q: What guarantees may a mortgage company insist on?
A: If you are buying a house, they will insist you are well endowed.
    Posted by JT on 3 Jan 2010. + (1) - (0) Permalink

"Is it legal to buy a gift card with a gift card?"
    (From http://answers.yahoo.com/question/ind...)
    Posted by Ghost on 3 Jan 2010. + (2) - (1) Permalink
I reported this question for verbal abuse and got it deleted. Muahahahahahahaahaaa!
    Posted by Moosh on 5 Jan 2010.
That's so harsh man.
    Posted by Ghost on 5 Jan 2010.
Was there any particular reason why you felt it was abusive?
    Posted by Wrongfellow on 6 Jan 2010.
The asker was a troll, he was calling answerers names. I doubt I was the only one who reported it.
    Posted by Moosh on 7 Jan 2010.

Woman 1: "Those have gone up too - they used to be two for £1, now they're three for £2."

Woman 2: "Yeah, but at least it's better value if you get three."
    Posted by JT on 5 Nov 2011. + (1) - (0) Permalink

"I feel sorry for you, having to work on Boxing Day. Who on earth shops on Boxing Day?" (Customer to member of staff, in a shop. On Boxing Day.)
    Posted by JT on 7 Jan 2013. + (1) - (0) Permalink

It's funny how 25% off £20 is only £5 but from £10 it's £2.50, isn't it? You'd have thought it'd be more than that.
    Posted by JT on 12 Aug 2009. + (1) - (1) Permalink
Pound signs fixed... not quite sure what happened there. Some kind of Unicode screwup presumably.
    Posted by Wrongfellow on 16 Aug 2009.
I've seen that happen on a lot of websites.
    Posted by JT on 19 Aug 2009.

"The private enterprise system indicates that some people have higher incomes than others" (Ex-Governor of California).
    Posted by JT on 21 Aug 2009. + (0) - (0) Permalink
damn, meant this one to go into Business...
    Posted by JT on 21 Aug 2009.

"Do you have that new book by Bridget Jones?" (Customer in bookshop, following the publication of Bridget Jones - The Edge of Reason)
    Posted by JT on 14 Dec 2009. + (1) - (1) Permalink

"These are false, baseless accusations which [we] will defend vigorously in court"
    (From http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/...)
    Posted by Wrongfellow on 7 Apr 2011. + (0) - (0) Permalink
Shouldn't there be an "against" in there somewhere?
    Posted by Wrongfellow on 7 Apr 2011.

"Employees are not going to hire people"
    Posted by Wrongfellow on 18 Apr 2012. + (0) - (0) Permalink