Workaround

[Axecleaver]

Best meeting ever...

There's like five of us in this really boring project stabilization meeting, and another 4-5 people conferenced in on the phone. This Indian gentleman (I think his name is Lava) is talking about some solution or another for a mind-numbingly simple problem.  He means to use the word "workaround" but instead, he uses the word "reacharound."

The table sort of looks at each other but nobody says anything because we were all sort of sleeping through it. So over the next 10 minutes he says reacharound at least five times. The whole table is trying not to laugh out loud and you can tell he knows something's up but due to his lack of mastery of the language he has no idea what is so goddamn funny, so he just plows ahead.

I wish I could say I was clever enough to ask "have you presented the client with the reacharound?" at the meeting but I didn't think of it til after.

[Rosslyn]

omfg...

My wife is upstairs, and she actually just called down here to ask what was so funny that made me bust out laughing loud enough for her to hear.

I can just see it now...  this guy will call back the "client" and say "Well, we've been chewing on this one at great length, and the bottom line is that I've got a reacharound for you."  Who knows, Lava might just have unwittingly embarked on a profound new journey of self-discovery...

(Edited by Rosslyn at 12:03 am on Oct. 7, 2004)

[Lifesbane]

LOL

[Tydd]

I'm bored

[Rosslyn]

haha!  this made me laugh my ass off all over again!

[Axecleaver]

Lol, I'd totally forgotten about this. Thanks for reminding me, I love that story.