The TFP is messing with my head
 

So today I sent an important email out regarding one of my multi-million dollar projects. Recipients included three Directors and one Vice President.

Whilst the email was very logical and appropriate to the topic of discussion (budgetary challenges that face our IT department in FY06), the message was slightly clouded by my signing it Mr Mephisto

Try explaining THAT to your co-workers.


LOL


Mr Mephisto

Just tell them you misplaced your pants...

You could officially change your name to Mr. Mephisto.

Just a thought.

oh gosh that made me laugh hehehehehehe

Ahhh, the sub-conscious mind, it fucks with us all.

I try to dial "9" before making a call from my home phone. I've even been known to answer the home phone "help desk".

We are all just creatures of habit.


I hope eveyone got a chuckle out of it at least.

Or tell them that your mind was preoccupied with titties :)

Oh my god... it's spreading.

I just about answered the phone, "Tilted Forum". The name of my company has the initials TF as well... luckily my internal alarm bells went off... paused for a second or four and then said my company's proper name...

One of several reasons that I use StanT as my username. That Alzheimers is a bitch, isn't it?

I've almost answered the phone "this is crazybill how can I help you" but like Charlatan my internal alarms saved me in time

hahah, thats awesome

hopefully they got a laugh out of it.

I referred to my wife as "lurkette" one time. To her mother. :rolleyes:

How did you explain it? :D

(I have a co-worker who refers to me as Maleficent and they've done so for years because I am so evil.. it worries me that they might actually show up here ... )

That's FANTASTIC!!

Let us know if anybody catches on. :lol:

I was IMing our CEO last week and signed off as tribs at the bottom. It's probably good to keep them guessing a bit! Good to know I'm not the only one ~

I responded to my own email, rather quickly, saying something lame like "Sorry guys, just used my old nick-name. I spent sometime chatting to an old schoolfriend earlier today and I guess it just stuck in my mind..."

Bummer

:)


Mr Mephisto

Great topic . . . I cannot tell you how many times over the years I have almost answered my personal phone with the name of my present employer!

BTW there is no known cure . . . :)

Yeah, I try to sign off my work e-mails with KO lately.

I use the signature here, but on other forums that don't use signatures I sign off as KO.

Oh my god! It's YOU!!


...
Just kidding, but I have been using this nick for "everything" the last 10 years, so I'm a litte scared that some might recognice me here.

I have a differen nickname at work (that has nothing to do with my real name) and have sendt several mails to our customers signed with Bob...(no Bob at my workplace :) )

I've been known to psych myself up when working out by saying over and over again 'c'mon stevie, you can do it, you da man'.
Problem is i ain't called stevie...

I blame it on typing in my journal as i go along when i workout. My mind usually isn't getting it's full supply of glucose at that time, which often leads to math problems when stacking weights 'ok, theres 10, 20, 30, 40, 50...ok, i have 100kg on this bar...i can't fit 100kg on this bar...whats going on here?'.

Thankfully i have my trusty calculator to do all the complicated addition for me :)

I've also recorded a voicemail message saying 'hi, sorry i'm not here right now, please leave a post after the beep'.

"hello and thankyou for calling Marks work wearhouse, your store for clothes that work."
*insert uncontrollable laughter from my friend*
"Ah shit, I gotta quit my job."

Was it because she referred to you as "ratbastid" to YOUR mother? :lol:

After cruising Fark for so long I started to use "shiat" and "Farker" to swear with.

Saddly... I've been King for a long time so if I sign something King or someone calls me King... it's no big deal.

That got a real good laugh that prompted confused, "What's so funny?" questions from everyone else in the house. As I noted in another thread, I hate being called Frosstbyte I just like how it reads, so I never sign with it and it's never been a problem.

I just hope I never meet anyone from my WoW teamspeak server IRL. I'll never be able to keep straight which name I'm supposed to call them. Bene, I mean Josh, I mean Squash, Melissa, Marty, I mean...Triton, etc.

I know what you mean, Frost. I met someone in person who I'd played EverQuest with for nearly a year, and it was so hard to stop calling him 'Handin' -- his character's name. It felt wierd to call him by his actual name -- "Aryan." Sometimes the fake names just seem more real. I have a friend who calls me "Jinn" often enough that someone who'd just met me thought my name was Jim; hilarity ensued as I tried to figure out why they thought my name was Jim.

I just always answer my phone the same way.........

Goldstein's Kosher Chinese and Ribs how can I help you?

Everyone knows my weird sense of humor and distinctive voice so....

Only time there is a problem is when someone calls for a job interview and then I have to pray they didn't take offense and understand I have a very weird sense of humor.

The leader of my guild and my friend is going to a guys wedding that he only knows by his wow name. Hes met him once at a lan party but really knows nothing about him. Though he does know a lot about his WOW character

Nice to know that I'm not the only one losing it slowly but surely.

Fark is like poison for your brain. My IQ goes down every time I make the mistake of clicking past the front page.

so ummm...

not a big fan then??? :LOL:

thanks mr. mephisto... got a laugh out of that one.

one time, late one saturday night, i was hanging out w/friends watching movies or playing games... i forget which. anyway, i was very tired and actually responded to a friends joke by saying the letters L-O-L instead of actually laughing.

never had trouble mixing my nick or name w/the platypus handle, as TFP is the only place I use it. however, i have signed my name as the initials of my usual internet nick that I use 95% of the time. i'll be extra mindful of that at work from now on thanks to mr mephisto.

I've actually responded to "raptor", only to realize they were talking about Jurassic Park. Kind of embarrassing at first, but after a little explanation, the situation was re-categorized as humorous.

You know you've been Farkin' too long when you start using "Hilarity ensued" in everyday speech. :lol:

when i was working for a new company, i answerd the phone iwth my old company's name. mind you the companies were arch enemies... everyone in the ofice got a good laugh

I must admit I sign off emails with "Moo", or emails that are from both myself and my wife I sign off with "Moo and moo" (She's a fair bit shorter than me!). Moo has become to much of a habit that I dd actually answer the phone at work once with "Moo?" Then hastily made a coughing sound and said "Hello..."

Oh, and yes, I do try to dial 9 from my home phone too... :)

I signed an official Navy E-mail with

-Mikey

at the bottom before, like I do my posts here. My Chief called later to find out why I'm on a first name basis with senior officers.

-Mikey

:lol: never happened to me...SO FAR heh

I too have dialed 9 from home and wondered why the heck I couldn't get through. I also try answering the phone at home by saying the company name. I always thought I was the only looney person in the world....

Wow.. I really relate to this one.. Most of my close friends refer to me as Bam, or something similiar, since I've had the name im games and on here for several years. Since my wife games occasionally, our house is full of 'lol' and sillyness as well.