The dirty %#@$*

[Black Bart]

Wife saw a survey on an afternoon TV "doctor" show last week about which workplaces are the dirtiest -- most germ-laden, most likely to catch infections, come down with somethin', etc.

Guess who came in right up there close to the top? Yeah, that's right -- WE did. Accountants' offices are number three. Doctors' offices, if you can believe it, were down at number six (can't imagine why -- they handle lots more filthy lucre* than I do).

P.S. The good doctors said keep fingers out of noses, mouths, eyes (yours, I guess, not your clients') and risk drops substantially.

*Reference for heathens: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/filthy%20lucre

[Jesse]

Well, I know during the months of Feb-Mar-Apr they would probably find my office to be #1, I just don't take the time to even dust! Spring cleaning is done in May.

[BHoffman]

I have enough dust under my desk to keep my feet warm.

[geekgirldany]

yeah I admit I have tumble weeds of dust going through the office.

[Mo Sheets]

Dust Bunnies....

Here all this time I thought the dust bunnies were in my office because Easter is around the corner. Oh well, now I can write "PAY ME" in the dust and see if any of my clients notice (ha...ha...)

Mo

[JohnH]

Stop it! Have some consideration for a sick guy.

I've got a bad case of bronchitis. Every time I come to the forum and just start reading these comments about all the dust, it drives me into a coughing spasm.

[Jesse]

........ now I can write "PAY ME" in the dust and see if any of my clients notice (ha...ha...)

Mo

But John, you gotta like that one! I do.

[JohnH]

Agreed.
Actually, I stopped to take Mo's advice, which is probably what really got me started on this latest round of coughing.

[fliszt]

Hey BB,

what does " %#@$* " mean?

[Black Bart]

Dear Larry,

what does " %#@$* " mean?

In the bad old days before cussin' became so (refreshingly) common, newspaper writers substituted those symbols for four-letter words. Now, of course, they can (thankfully) print almost anything they want with the exception of...well...you know (but don't worry -- it's coming).

Now that Hollywooders have banished backwoodsy provincialism, TV movies gush (every third word) expletives that would make a sailor blush right there conveniently in the home for the enlightenment of my teen granddaughter. I'm sooo grateful and would very much like to hear an Academy Awards presenter do the same for them; like maybe..."And the award for Best %#@$*ing Actor goes to..."

Oddly -- such speech is absent from their annual self-congratulatory blowout. Do you suppose they would think it inappropriate?

[fliszt]

Rock on BB

You continue to make me lol.

[Davc]

The Sarge in the "Beetle Bailey" strip was the king of %#@$.

[PIGLEE]

I moved out of my office this last fall, I had been there for 17 years. I decided to clean my top desk drawer. It was amazing what I found in that drawer. But there was one mystery, I found in the pencil part of the drawer (at the front of the drawer), all this mystery stuff, there was quite of bit of it, I even put a sample of it in a plastic bag. After a couple of weeks I figured it out. I would open the drawer, get my finger nail clipper, and clipped my finger nails, that was what the mystery stuff was in the bottom of my drawer. Check your top drawer, you may have some also.

[BHoffman]

I remember saving eraser crumbs in the pencil holder when I was a little kid in school. And making doll clothes for my pencil out of the straw paper from the morning milk break.