Tuesday, July 19, 2011

"Oh, hello!"

"Oh, hello!"

There is nothing - nothing - worse than getting caught up in somebody else's in-joke. Apart, perhaps, from coming home to find Yoko Ono wiping her arse on your curtains. But getting caught up in an in-joke is nearly as bad.

And school teachers are the worst:

"Here, Coleman", said Mr Wilko hardly able to hide his mirth, "Take this message to Dr Jenkins next door."

"What message, sir?"

"This: [posh voice] 'Oh, Hello!'"

[rolls eyes] "What? Again? That's the third time today sir."

There is a knock on the door.

"Come!"

In walks Simon from the class next door. He looks nervous.

"Well?"

"Message from Dr Jenkins, sir."

"YES?"

"It's... It's... [posh voice] Oh, hello!"

A roar of childish laughter can be heard from the classroom down the corridor.

"You still here, Coleman?"

And they dare to call ME mad.

10 comments:

Pseudonymph said...

The Gnomes and I were discussing secret in-jokes and such. We'd be willing to bet a Dark Choc M&M to a Walmart clock that people who are out of the loop don't really want to hear about them.
Artificial Tortoises, the lot of them!

Pseudonymph said...

*snerk*

TRT said...

I had a tacher at school. Bastard.

Debster said...

Lionel is certainly a tacher. Although to be fair I did wonder whether this was going to be a Charles Hawtrey or Leslie Phillips joke.

Pseudonymph said...

TRT: it wasn't that pedantfile one, was it?

TRT said...

He was a cad. An absolute bounder, a rotter and a scoundrel to boot.

Erin said...

*snerk* indeed!

My money's on the M&Ms.

#Debi said...

It's now official. My life is an in-joke.


I knew it.

:)

Donna said...

I think ALL teachers get upto that kind of stuff.
Explains a lot doesn't it.

No Good Boyo said...

I once caught our physics master, Mr Roderick, chasing the remedials teacher, the plump Mrs Humphreys, down an after school corridor, basting her rump with a Bunsen burner tube. His wife was French. Excellent. Dammit, that's good enough to be a poem.