• (cs)

    Curses. I guess it's back to Ebay, then.

  • (cs)

    "Surrey"? "UK"??

    This doesn't have anything to do with the US at all! (I want my money back.)

  • (cs)

    An insurance company with a sense of humor is indeed a WTF.

    It's not a "worse than failure" though, so I'm not sure why this story was posted here.

  • Franz Kafka (unregistered)
    Due to unforeseen demand we would like to apologize for the premature withdrawal of this offer.

    I see what you did there...

  • guest (unregistered)

    "premature withdrawal" on the penises?

  • Max (unregistered)

    Office worker attempts witty comeback! News at 11.

  • sjs (unregistered) in reply to savar
    savar:
    "Surrey"? "UK"??

    This doesn't have anything to do with the US at all! (I want my money back.)

    You forget that North America is covered with very British-ly named places. In London, Ontario there is a Thames river, and many streets are named things such as Elizabeth, Prince Charles, Picadilly, Richmond, etc.

    Surrey is also a city in BC, and likely not the only one in N. America.

    Embrace your limey roots! :-P

  • wiregoat (unregistered) in reply to sjs
    sjs:
    savar:
    "Surrey"? "UK"??

    This doesn't have anything to do with the US at all! (I want my money back.)

    You forget that North America is covered with very British-ly named places. In London, Ontario there is a Thames river, and many streets are named things such as Elizabeth, Prince Charles, Picadilly, Richmond, etc.

    Surrey is also a city in BC, and likely not the only one in N. America.

    Embrace your limey roots! :-P

    No, No! It isn't true [crying]

  • Sigivald (unregistered)

    Yes, but who'd admit to being from or in the Surrey in BC?

  • PeriSoft (unregistered)

    The mainpage article illustration image gets my vote.

  • JUST ANOTHER WTF (unregistered) in reply to Sigivald
    Sigivald:
    Yes, but who'd admit to being from or in the Surrey in BC?

    People in Whiterock?

  • (cs)

    Even if it is not a proper WTF, this made me laugh :)

  • Corporate Cog (unregistered)

    The much preferred plural of penis is penes. If it weren't for the duplicative and inferior form "penises", this regrettable situation would never have occurred.

  • Andy (unregistered)

    Gotta love the pic :)

  • (cs) in reply to Zylon
    Zylon:
    An insurance company with a sense of humor is indeed a WTF.

    It's not a "worse than failure" though, so I'm not sure why this story was posted here.

    The best dutch commercials tend to come from insurance companies. Delta Lloyd is one: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y_b3A9acHag Centraal Beheer is another: http://youtube.com/watch?v=aTvJFEkIstU

    Problem is most people tend to forget which of the two was in the commercial. Delta Lloyd is always about doing something silly, Centraal Beheer ('Just call to Apeldoorn') is about something that has gone wrong.

  • Loren Pechtel (unregistered)

    L&G found itself offering accidentally all existing clients the option of purchasing "additional penises upon retirement." ... Sorry guys, looks like you'll just have to make do with what you've already got.

    What in the world would I do with an extra penis anyway? I can understand the desire for a bigger one but an extra one?! Is the idea to permit one guy to do double penetration? (Normally I would put a <G> here but the system already did so: Captcha: smile.)

  • (cs)

    The real WTF is that anyone uses this damn spellcheck thing.

  • Da' Man (unregistered) in reply to wiregoat
    wiregoat:
    No, No! It isn't true [crying]

    I hear there is even a number of towns called "Paris" in the U.S. - at least one of them in Texas.

  • anonymous (unregistered)

    This ad seems targeted at straight women, not at straight men. A lot of my friends wouldn't mind having an extra penis when the BF is out of town. Particularly if it didn't come with a loser on the other end.

  • (cs) in reply to JUST ANOTHER WTF
    JUST ANOTHER WTF:
    Sigivald:
    Yes, but who'd admit to being from or in the Surrey in BC?

    People in Whiterock?

    Unless they are giving a mailing address, people in Whiterock say they are from Whiterock, not Surrey.

  • Jarrod Spiga (unregistered)

    For me, the real WTF is that they were using a spell checker. I though only wizards and witches needed to check the accuracy of their spells. Us normal folk generally need to use a spelling checker. So you see, it's no wonder why they were offering penises. I'm surprised they weren't also offering eye-of-newt.

    Also, does anyone else find the penis withdrawl a little chortle-worthy?

  • (cs)

    I found it amusing that Office for Windows considers "misspelt" to be misspelt. Numpty.

    What's wrong with Surrey BC? When I first started using IRC, the first place I ended up was Undernet #surrey. I met my gay admirer James there, as well as a whole load of other nutters. (One of whom was the astonishingly gorgeous girl geek Meighan).

    Every now and then we'd get a Briton pop in thinking it was a channel for Surrey, England. I'm from Hertfordshire, not Surrey, so that's not why I ended up there either. No-one knows how I ended up in #surrey. Weird.

  • J (unregistered)

    I used to work for L&G, where I can confirm that this story was told, though it seems to have aquired details with the passage of time.

    Since I worked on some pensions stuff, I can confirm that there were pension accounts on their mainframe for Pat Mycock and Roger Mycock.

  • Al (unregistered)

    It's all very amusing ... but 'pensions' and 'penises' are completely different to type. Having worked for various UK insurance companies, I can confirm that this has 'happened' to a number of companies. Also, every employee has dealt with people with amusing names like 'Wayne Kerr'.

    The insurance industry in the UK suffers from a lack of actual humor, and thus we have to make things like this up ...

  • (cs) in reply to anonymous
    anonymous:
    A lot of my friends wouldn't mind having an extra penis when the BF is out of town. Particularly if it didn't come with a loser on the other end.
    And now we're back to FizzBuzz again...
  • (cs) in reply to Al
    Al:
    It's all very amusing ... but 'pensions' and 'penises' are completely different to type.
    'penisos'
  • (cs) in reply to Daniel Beardsmore
    Daniel Beardsmore:
    No-one knows how I ended up in #surrey. Weird.
    Oddly enough, lots of people express rather similar sentiments in real life...

    (Although in fairness, there's usually hash involved there too.)

  • (cs) in reply to sjs
    sjs:
    You forget that North America is covered with very British-ly named places. In London, Ontario there is a Thames river, and many streets are named things such as Elizabeth, Prince Charles, Picadilly, Richmond, etc.

    I've even heard unlikely stories that our famous New York is named after some place in England. Silly, I know. Everyone knows New York is named after York, Pennsylvania (Home of the York Peppermint Patty)

  • (cs) in reply to SuperousOxide
    SuperousOxide:
    I've even heard unlikely stories that our famous New York is named after some place in England. Silly, I know. Everyone knows New York is named after York, Pennsylvania (Home of the York Peppermint Patty)
    And presumably before that it was named for Amsterdam, Missouri?
  • (cs) in reply to Daniel Beardsmore
    Daniel Beardsmore:
    I found it amusing that Office for Windows considers "misspelt" to be misspelt. Numpty.
    If it's using the Merriam-Webster American English dictionary, then I'm not surprised, as it doesn't appear there either.
  • Franz Kafka (unregistered) in reply to Sigivald
    Sigivald:
    Yes, but who'd admit to being from or in the Surrey in BC?

    "I live in a suburb of Vancouver."

  • Unchecked acception in spelling (unregistered)

    When writing e-mail at a former employer, I spelled the company's name correctly. Microsoft Outlook tried to change the name to Eros.

  • Hmm maybe if I logged in I wouldn't have to think of a name. (unregistered) in reply to Daniel Beardsmore

    Golly gosh, it's Daniel. from Spamusement! (in case the quote doesn't show up, I'm referring to Daniel Beardsmore with the gay admirer James in Surrey)

  • Constantijn Blondel (unregistered)
    ha, I bet you're afraid to click that link

    To be honest, it was the first link I opened in a new tab, even before reading the main post...

    Hey, I mean....it is a nice break from the morning routine of filtering spam from Outlook and firing up all my enterprise-ready windows office-ware :)

  • Michael (unregistered)

    so funny, here in the UK is an insurance company L&G = Legal & General. coincidence?!?

  • Mark B (unregistered) in reply to Michael
    Michael:
    so funny, here in the UK is an insurance company L&G = Legal & General. coincidence?!?
    yeah I thought that was a bit trasparent.
  • (cs)

    Put knot yore trust in spel chequers.

  • (cs) in reply to SuperousOxide
    SuperousOxide:
    sjs:
    You forget that North America is covered with very British-ly named places. In London, Ontario there is a Thames river, and many streets are named things such as Elizabeth, Prince Charles, Picadilly, Richmond, etc.
    I've even heard unlikely stories that our famous New York is named after some place in England. Silly, I know. Everyone knows New York is named after York, Pennsylvania (Home of the York Peppermint Patty)
    Strangely we actually have a "New York" in England too.

    Ah crap, googling around Google Maps just found another one.

    One "New York" in Newcastle and one in Lincoln

    The arrow for the Lincoln one seems to be no-where near the town name for some reason, scroll south a little. It seems to be a tiny little hamlet :)

  • (cs)

    The penis mightier than the sword.

  • angelone (unregistered)

    "Attached i send you the anal report 2006"

  • Sid2K7 (unregistered)

    Yeah. It is hard to explain to Americans that their "New York" actually is not named to be the "New" York, but rather a copy of "New York, England". There is actually is a pun on this in Futurama ("New New York").

    Captcha: tacos. From New New Mexico?

  • (cs) in reply to Squiggle
    Squiggle:
    The penis mightier than the sword.
    Indeed, the penis mightier than the 's' word.
  • Keith Hackney (unregistered) in reply to Sid2K7

    [quote user="Sid2K7"]Yeah. It is hard to explain to Americans that their "New York" actually is not named to be the "New" York, but rather a copy of "New York, England". There is actually is a pun on this in Futurama ("New New York").[quote]

    I'm not doubting you but if this is the case, how do you explain:

    New England, New Jersey and all the others (which I can't remeber).

    CAPTCHA = cheddarcheese

  • (cs) in reply to gwenhwyfaer
    gwenhwyfaer:
    Squiggle:
    The penis mightier than the sword.
    Indeed, the penis mightier than the 's' word.

    Sean Connery: "If you're selling penis mightier's, I'll take a dozen!" Alex Trabeck: "It's not a penis mightier, Mr. Connery. The category is, the pen is mightier." Sean Connery: "Oh, c'mon, Traaa-beck, you're sitting on a gold mine!"

  • (cs) in reply to gwenhwyfaer
    gwenhwyfaer:
    Al:
    It's all very amusing ... but 'pensions' and 'penises' are completely different to type.
    'penisos'
    Now that will provide real compitition with Windows, far more than MacOS and Linux will. :-P
  • iMalc (unregistered)

    Reminds me of the PenIsDown function

  • ELIZA (unregistered) in reply to gwenhwyfaer
    gwenhwyfaer:
    Squiggle:
    The penis mightier than the sword.
    Indeed, the penis mightier than the 's' word.

    Oddly enough, the words penis, pen, pencil, and possibly even penninsula come from the latin word penis, meaning "tail"; depending upon how William Penn got his name (There are a few major ways to get names, some of which I will illustrate: Lincoln's ancestor was probably "[the only guy around here] from Lincoln", Johnson's ancestor was "Johan's [only living] son", Smith's ancestor's was likely "the [village's only] Smith", and Satan's ancestor was "the actor who plays Satan at the annual village morality play" (sort of like a Hell House except with more of the form of an ordinary play than of a museum tour)), Pennsylvania may also be related to penis et al (as an aside, if he found out about it being Pennsylvania rather than Sylvania, he would be really embarrassed).

  • logic (unregistered)

    For what it's worth, the Microsoft Word spelling checker suggests "pensions" for "penisos".

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