I’m hoping that at least my random is better than my WIPs this week!
1. Seen and heard in the office this week, part 1 – we had a raffle this week to win 2 days holiday over Christmas. This was entirely a new one on me – proceeds went to the company’s charity, and 2 lucky people got their days off. £265 worth of sales came out of this, which means that at least 130 of my colleagues were as eager as me for some time off (it was £1 for 1 ticket of £2 for 5) Alas, it wasn’t my day…
2. Seen and heard part 2 – one of my colleagues has just become a father again, which produced the following, slightly odd email from his boss. ‘Announcing that C is now the proud owner of baby S who arrived at 7:20 this morning’. Somehow I’d never really envisaged that you ‘own’ your children, it kind of seemed more like the kind of sentence you’d use for a new car or a new house, but the guy who wrote it has kids, he probably knows more about it than me ;o)
3. So did you hear about the enormous plane that landed at the wrong airport last week and then couldn’t turn round to take off again? A Boeing 747 transport plane accidentally landed at Colonel James Jabara airport in Wichita, rather than McConnell USAF base on the other side of town, and trundling down the road wasn’t any more of an option than trying to take off independently. Eventually they got a tug there to turn it round, and everyone crossed their fingers as it headed down the 1,860 m runway, as it normally needs a 2,780 m runway. What’s a kilometre between friends though, eh?! Thankfully it made it, both up in the air, and to the right airport. I wonder if that pilot and navigator will be working again any time soon…
4. In other crazy news, the French media were so confident that their team wouldn’t win their game against the Ukraine as part of the playoffs for the 2014 World Cup last week, various presenters promised to do a range of wild and wacky things if they pulled it off. With a final scoreline of 3-0 to France, one host dressed up in his ‘English’ best and presented his show entirely in English, another dyed his hair blonde, a third took a bath with another colleague, and a fourth presented the weather in a small village, Poil, before being seen galloping across a field naked, chanting ‘Et un, et deux, et trois zeros’. ‘A poil’ being the French for ‘in the nude’, the viewers had probably thought she was going to cheat at first, and I have to say, the wellies might still have been cheating… ;o)
5. And finally, this meme gave me a giggle this week, I now feel the need to find a small child to wind up accordingly… Go check out more here and here.
Linking up with my fellow Randomeers:
Kids own their parents, he had that wrong! The dinosaurs are genius, I love this kind of messing with their heads it's brilliant! :o)
So agree with Ange!! I was thinking the same thing, C has a new boss S and his life will completely revolve around S from now on!!!
I love that meme!! I really would love to do that to my children, but could't face the clearing up after!
I always thought French commentators were wacky, now I know that they are! Can't see Huw Edwards galloping across a field naked (thank goodness!) can you?
I hear that the pilot of that 747 now has a new job working for FedEx …
The two days holidays wouldn't be Christmas Day and Boxing Day would they? Your randoms are a good way for me to keep up with current affairs, I wouldn't have known about planes landing in strange places or French reporters doing crazy things or dinosaurs taking over the world if it wasn't for you.
I wish my work raffled off extra days leave. I'd buy every single ticket! Brilliant idea in my opinion.
Ive seen the dinosaur meme too this week. Messing with kids heads is what I do for a living so I'd be really good at that!
What Ange said basically!
Thanks for your randomness this week. I hope you have a good one.
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Thanks for showing those dinosaurs, it's brilliant! Wonder if those parents get more sleep now though, they must spend hours setting up those scenes every night! And cleaning it all up again next morning…
Dinasaurs might make a mess but I know who the hell gets stuck with the clean up! Dinasaurs can stay the hell out of my house. 😉
I always learn the most interesting things here. You are a random genius.
I love that dinosaur thing, and have been contemplating it. It would have to involve cars in this house, though. We are lacking in dinosaurs.
Too bad about your lottery… I hope you're having fun shopping today to make up for it! 😀 (gogogo low volume haha)
Maannn, where do you work?! We have to take compulsory annual leave for a week at Christmas! I'd actually prefer to decide for myself on that since OH works actual Christmas Day (he's in the Police).
you come up with the best randomness ever. very enjoyable, as usual 🙂
Well, isn't that a wonderful way for Wichita to make international news??? LOL It was certainly a big joke around here and yeah, betting that little incident follows that pilot the rest of his life. Technically, both are on the east side of Wichita but Jabara is north, McConnell is waay south–still, they're miles apart and I don't understand at all how one could confuse them, even from the air.
Loved the dinosaurs – fits into the category of too much time on their hands! I had never heard of the idea of raffling time off – must have been fun to contemplate!
Brilliant as always! I love the dinosaurs, but would have been tempted to to it in the garden – more convincing scale and no cleaning up to do afterwards !!!!