The Nugget presents, "The Letter of the Day" (792 hits)
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Submitted by Corinne (View user info) at 2005-04-24 00:44:50 EDT
The tedium of life has been chipping away at me. The drive to work is painfully long and boring, no matter how often I change CD's or how many cigarettes I smoke. I spend 45 minutes anxiously awaiting my arrival at work.
Of course, once I actually get to work, I'm still bored. I walk laps around the store, work work work. My mind flip-flops from analyzing everything to blanking out. I check my watch every five minutes.
It's absolutely horrible.
So lately, I've taken to playing little games with myself. It's working out quite well, and I really wish someone had suggested this sooner.
My favorite game is The Alphabet.
Rock Groups starting with the letter A, B, C... all the way through Z. Once I'm done with Rock, I move on to R & B, then Rap, Classical, Christian, Country, etc etc etc... Rock is too easy, Christian is too hard, and Rap is too annoying. But it's still better than having nothing to think about.
Then I move on to Dog Breeds. I got stumped on the letter O. Otterhound? O... I don't know, and to actually go look it up would be to cheat, and we all know that cheaters don't prosper.
An interesting The Alphabet category is "Traits of Mine". Here is a brief excerpt:
A- analytical
B- buxom
C- creative
D- demanding
See, all the way through Z. It's harder than you think. It's hard to find that many words that really describe you. I'm sure everyone wants to put "zany" for Z, because, well, what else can you put? I refuse to put zany, because that would just be a lie.
The last game I settled on was The Alphabet "countries". It was fairly easy, although W and X stumped me for a long time. To be honest, they still stump me. Someone I work with insists that there is some country near Turkey called "Wasickstan" or something. I don't believe it, but I can't look it up, because it would be cheating. For now, I will say, "There are no countries that begin with the letter X or W."
After I ran out of ideas on things to alphabetize, I decided to get my co-workers and customers in on the fun.
We started with The Alphabet Countries. For some reason H stumped nearly everyone. H is easy. Q was the difficult one. Nobody knew Q, which made me happy, in that pretentious way that people who know something that nobody else knows sometimes feel.
When customers asked if I could help them, I would say, "Only after you tell me a Country that begins with the letter..." (I choose the Trivia Letter carefully... if someone looked stupid, or if they smelled, I'd say M or C. If they seemed irritable I'd say Q, just because I knew it would make them more irritated.
The best part of the whole experience was this:
Me: "Name a country that starts with the letter Z."
Her: "Oooh... uh... wow... uh..."
Me: "want me to give you some time to think?"
Her: "no... it's uh... oh..."
Me: "?"
Her: "wow, I can't think of any... I'm surprised, I'm usually really good at geology".
Me: "Enough said."
That made me so happy.
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Submitted by c1ndy (user info) at 2006-06-15 13:02:25 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-06-15 12:51:04 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
A Perfect Circle
Bruce Springsteen
Coheed and Cambria
Disturbed
Eminem
Foo Fighters
Godsmack
Hank Williams
I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody's Business
Jack Johnson
Kanye West
Led Zeppelin
Method Man
Nirvana
Ozzy Osbourne
Pantera
Queen
Rolling Stones
System of a Down
Tool
Underoath
Van Halen
Warren Zevon
X...
Yellowcard
ZZ Top
Submitted by corn_nugget (user info) at 2006-06-15 12:24:54 EDT (#)
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I miss having a job.
Submitted by munkeypants (user info) at 2005-04-24 20:15:57 EDT (#)
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good idea
Submitted by shandythedog (user info) at 2005-04-24 15:09:03 EDT (#)
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you need a holiday
Submitted by Jay_Bassman (user info) at 2005-04-24 10:50:21 EDT (#)
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This is the greatest idea ever!!! I don't know why i didn't think of that before. Thank you very much, Corinne. I'll start interrogating customers about country names on Tuesday.
I like to ask customers random things just for fun. Today, for instance, I was serving this guy and asked him "Do you listen to Emo music?" he replied "What's Emo?", I just said "Oh. Don't. It's shit." Yes, I swear at customers. It's amazing I still work at Woolworths.
Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2005-04-24 10:36:02 EDT (#)
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Yay Cookiemonster!!
Healthy eating my ass, Sesame Street. Why don't you go kill off your HIV character and leave Cookie to his own devices??
Submitted by corn_nugget (user info) at 2005-04-24 10:28:46 EDT (#)
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Is Whales considered a COUNTRY or a province? I asked my British co-worker, he gave me the history of Whales, which concludes in "It's a province".
Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2005-04-24 10:20:23 EDT (#)
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Submitted by zakalwe (user info) at 2005-04-24 08:07:02 (#)
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what about Wales?
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Wales isn't a country. It's a principality.
Submitted by AlwaysAnEagle (user info) at 2005-04-24 09:42:18 EDT (#)
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This is what model UN has done to me...
Albania
Benin
Czech Republic
Denmark
Ethiopia
France
Germany
Hungary
India
Jamaica
Kenya
Libya
Mexico
Nepal
Oman (only one)
Peru
Qatar
Russia
Sudan
Tanzania
Uruguay
Venezuela
Wallis and Futuna
THERE IS NO COUNTRY THAT BEGINS WITH X
Yemen
Zambia
The sad thing is? I KNOW there's no place that begins with X because I've had to look for one before.
Submitted by Feijuada (user info) at 2005-04-24 08:44:01 EDT (#)
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Zimbabwe, Zambia, Ziare (Zaire?)
Submitted by zakalwe (user info) at 2005-04-24 08:07:02 EDT (#)
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what about Wales?
Submitted by UberGirl (user info) at 2005-04-24 02:42:24 EDT (#)
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Zimbabwe!
Submitted by FunnyAsCancer (user info) at 2005-04-24 02:23:13 EDT (#)
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Cookies are a "sometime food."
Submitted by Squijee (user info) at 2005-04-24 02:20:19 EDT (#)
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My atlas lists one country as beginning with 'W', and it's not Wasickstan or whatever your friend said.
Zealot, zesty, zoologist...hmm perhaps not.
Submitted by Umbilical_Cord (user info) at 2005-04-24 02:06:17 EDT (#)
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zamberia!
Submitted by Shizae (user info) at 2005-04-24 02:04:45 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by SPECIALk (user info) at 2005-04-24 02:01:50 EDT (#)
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c is fro cookie,that's good enough for me
cookei cookie cookee starts with c!!
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2005-04-24 01:10:48 EDT (#)
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Can you actually bother your clients like that?
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2005-04-24 01:09:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Qatar is such an ugly name, how can you not remember it.
The guy with the "Z" was not very intelligent.