My receptionist said...

And today, to start my week off the right way, I said to Emma (she that is famous due to this thread); "Em, what did you do this weekend"? And the little bundle of joy said, "Well Ashe, I went and had a fish pedicure".

"A FISH PEDICURE"?, said I, incredulously; "Whats that"?

"Well", says the vision of loveliness, "Its where you stick your feel in a pool where special fish suck at your feet".

I'm still trying to get over that this actually, as its the most bizarre start to a weekday morning, that I've had for quite some time. That Emma, she makes the days just seem brighter. I think I love her. Comedy each Monday, for free. You can't say better than that.

they're all the rage now strangely. there's a place on my road that does it. had to do a double take the first time I walked past. most odd.

I had one in Thailand years ago. Quite an unusual sensation.

Soon they'll have one for lonely men, or women, to just sit in, with curtains drawn, letting the fishies nibble away. It would cause quite a stir cough.

And today, to start my week off the right way, I said to Emma (she that is famous due to this thread); "Em, what did you do this weekend"? And the little bundle of joy said, "Well Ashe, I went and had a fish pedicure".

"A FISH PEDICURE"?, said I, incredulously; "Whats that"?

"Well", says the vision of loveliness, "Its where you stick your feel in a pool where special fish suck at your feet".

I'm still trying to get over that this actually, as its the most bizarre start to a weekday morning, that I've had for quite some time. That Emma, she makes the days just seem brighter. I think I love her. Comedy each Monday, for free. You can't say better than that.

Keep up mate, being going on in Thailand for hundreds of years

Some famous place in India too(name escapes me) where eczema & psoriasis sufferers go to get 'cured'*

*kind of

Keep up mate, being going on in Turkey for hundreds of years

ftfy

AND Thailand

We had a receptionist at my old workplace who offered, by email, everyone the chance to buy some bootleg DVDs, off of her moody bruvver who also would shoplift handbags etc. to order.

The company are heavily involved in the promotion of sales of DVDs, and as such are members of the Federation Against Copyright Theft. Oh we had a laugh.

Garrafufa fish isn't it? 'kin everywhere - a fool and his money as they say - £15 for 15 mins

Heather Mills is a huge fan......particularly as she gets it half price etc. etc

Hahahaha!

lols

Our receptionists are mostly from Lithuania, and stunning. Frankly, if they want to talk about fish pedicures, I won't complain.

This is nothing. It's the Hummingbirds they use in Ecuador for ear cleaning duties that freak me.

AND Thailand

And Russia as well. Psoriasis treatment.

http://www.psoriasisfishcure.com/researches/doctor_fish.htm

we once convinced a colleague that the dinosaurs became extinct when gravity suddenly got too strong and they all got crushed to death hence why fossils are flat.

she soon clocked on to all the fibs we had been feeding her over the years that when we said most boats are made of metal she laughed at us and called us idiots and liars

"im not THAT stupid. metal boats would just sink....."
(nb. we worked at a boat club)

http://twitter.com/#!/johnprescott/statuses/86120868136222721

lucky fish

... dinosaurs became extinct when gravity suddenly got too strong and they all got crushed to death hence why fossils are flat.

Really? Thats Awesome!

When I first saw this sort of shop I thought it might be a one off, but now they are popping up every where! I don't get it, does it actually work?

I was at an aquarium and one of the workers said if the fish clean the feet of somebody with a foot disease they can transfer it to you...trutalk, I think.

Back on topic

A friends colleague used to talk to the fax machine when people rang it mistakenly telling them the correct number to call.

doing it the other way round can be even more fun
in the old days you could phone a fax machine and get your voice to come out of it ( not magic there was a little speaker or something )
we used to phone the fax next to one of the secretary's and pretend there was a little fella stuck inside the fax machine

That little speaker is what she would speak into.

Once had a work experience kid in one of the kitchens I used to run, due to health and safety he wasn't allowed to do much apart from dishes as he was not trained and not covered by insurance around some of the equipment, but bless him he was so keen. In fact he was keen to the point that he pissed me off chronically especially when he bugged me for something to do other than dishes during service, one night when I was busy and he was bugging me I told him that I needed a "long weight" from my pal who ran the kitchen of a restaurant down the road. 3 hours later the work experience boy came back and told me "I think he forgot about me. When I told him what we needed he told me to stand in the corner and he would sort it out when he could." The guy couldn't understand why the other chefs kept looking at him and giggling. Looking back I feel a bit bad about it, at the time I pissed myself.

^ that's a really old one ... I reckon my Grandpa used that one.