{"id":16852,"date":"2010-03-06T10:33:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T17:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=16852"},"modified":"2010-03-06T10:33:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T17:33:21","slug":"dialog-at-the-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/06\/dialog-at-the-office.html","title":{"rendered":"Dialog at the Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

All of this was in email exchanges on Friday.<\/p>\n

BOSS: [Regarding a spreadsheet I’d put the final touches on] This is GREAT! You guys rock!<\/p>\n

ME: [Regarding past jokes about my design and grammar predilections] Wait! I forgot to add a bunch of colors to the spreadsheet, as well as adding in a lot of commas, just to be safe!<\/p>\n

BOSS: That’s why we call you Too Many Commas Man, or Oxford Man<\/a> for short.<\/p>\n

ME: I shall have to affect an Oxonian accent at our next off-site soiree.<\/p>\n

FELLOW GRAMMAR WONK CO-WORKER: [Just to me] Please tell me you had to look up Oxonian<\/a>. I would have stuck with Oxfordian.<\/p>\n

ME: No, I knew it was Oxonian. I did have to look it up to confirm it’s affect<\/a> <\/em>an accent, rather than effect <\/em>one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, I know any joke you have to explain is lame (and the above humor was more than lame), but the whole exchange tickled me greatly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All of this was in email exchanges on Friday. BOSS: [Regarding a spreadsheet I’d put the final touches on] This is GREAT! You guys rock! ME: [Regarding past jokes about my design and grammar predilections] Wait! 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