Sometimes I wish I was wittier

[only_more_so]

I got a wrong number phone call a few minutes ago. The guy asked, "Is this the Psych Ward?"

I said, "No, you have the wrong number."

*sigh* oppurtunities like that don't happen everyday.

 

[Cathleen]

How about you share what you wish you had said ok?


I think I would have said, "Yes, 4th floor."

 

[Quoll]

It's annoying when your witticism kicks in a tad to late, mine only seems to work half the time, I guess that makes me a half...

 

[only_more_so]

How about you share what you wish you had said ok?


I think I would have said, "Yes, 4th floor."

I'm not sure... Maybe, "Picking up or dropping off?"

Or maybe, "We prefer to be called the loony bin."

How about, "Sorry, the doc's all tied up, just us patients here now."

 

[Râleclins]

Or "For you, baby, it will be."

 

[human_male]

I wish I was special.

 

[eudaemonia]

I'm not sure... Maybe, "Picking up or dropping off?"

::nasal sprays keyboard with iced tea:: Excellent!

Or maybe, "We prefer to be called the loony bin."

My variation on that theme: "Excuse me, but that's "loony bin" to you, Inspector Clueless!"

I've never met Cate but I can just hear her reply in the deadest-of-pans imaginable.

 

[only_more_so]

I have to admit the "picking up or dropping off" is a tribute to the same line in Ghostbusters where the cops knock on their door.

 

[eudaemonia]

I have to admit the "picking up or dropping off" is a tribute to the same line in Ghostbusters where the cops knock on their door.

I'll admit it: About 95% of my wittisms are stuffs I've lifted from other contexts. Sometimes it's my juxtapositioning that makes me sound as if I'm funny, or it's my delivery, or whatever. But rarely do I come up with something completely original to me. And when I did, I wasn't even trying to be funny but everyone around me cracked up. Go figger ...

 

[only_more_so]

I'll admit it: About 95% of my wittisms are stuffs I've lifted from other contexts. Sometimes it's my juxtapositioning that makes me sound as if I'm funny, or it's my delivery, or whatever. But rarely do I come up with something completely original to me. And when I did, I wasn't even trying to be funny but everyone around me cracked up. Go figger ...

You sound like a woman after my own heart. But you can't have it, it's mine and I need it. I could probably hand over some liver though, or is that taking the joke too far?

 

[silverwhisper]

OMS: god, that opportunity...and you know, if it were me getting that call, i'd have hung up just as the perfect retort leapt to mind.

right now, i'm going w/ "yes, sybil." :>

ed

 

[bobsgirl]

::nasal sprays keyboard with iced tea:: Excellent!



My variation on that theme: "Excuse me, but that's "loony bin" to you, Inspector Clueless!"

I've never met Cate but I can just hear her reply in the deadest-of-pans imaginable.

I have met Cate and she is a smartass of the highest order.

 

[glynndah]

I think I remember reading that somebody (the French, maybe?) call them "staircase moments". When you think of the perfect quip, comeback, etc., as you are on your way out the door or into your own house, or in this case, after you hang up. (Way too late to be effective.)

 

[Mesachie]

"esprit de l'escalier" aka "spirit of the stairway" and is used in the sense of thinking of the perfect retort as you are walking down the stairs (leaving). But too late to for the perfect moment.

 

[glynndah]

"esprit de l'escalier" aka "spirit of the stairway" and is used in the sense of thinking of the perfect retort as you are walking down the stairs (leaving). But too late to for the perfect moment.

That's it!

 

[Cathleen]

I'm not sure... Maybe, "Picking up or dropping off?"

Or maybe, "We prefer to be called the loony bin."

How about, "Sorry, the doc's all tied up, just us patients here now."

This deserves post of the week -- IMHO.

You are witty but damn the timing right?

 

[NippleMuncher]

"No, I'm sorry, Mr. Ward isn't here at the moment. May I take a message?"

 

[wickedlady31]

hahaha

How about, "Sorry, the doc's all tied up, just us patients here now."
I like that!!!!!

Speaking of the funny farm...I would have started singing that stupid song from dr demento...they're coming to take me away ha ha...ho ho...he he..to the funny farm...


I was in the hospital with my sister and her husband...we were visiting our dad. We went to the kitchen for coffee.....and somehow, we took the wrong elevator and ended up on the psych floor.