Moses Gets job at D.O.T.
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Gave me a small smile, so I guess it’s an ok caption.
The department of telecommunications?
Meh. :p
DOT = Department of Transportation…which includes the guys who build/maintain highways.
Yeah, I googled it. The US department of transportation and India’s department of telecommunication were the two top hits. I am not really trying to pretend I believe PK could or should be anything but US-centric, so my comment was mostly meant as a rather tired and grumpy way of complaining about it. (Especially as the picture for some reason didn’t look to me in any way obviously American.)
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So: My actual point:
I am not saying this is a bad caption, I am saying why it’s a meh for me – because it required assuming knowledge that DOT was the US department of transportation, and then the photo doesn’t feel related.
“required assuming knowledge” is a brand new phrase which OF COURSE makes perfect sense. :p
I guess with the majority of people on the site being US (statistically I think that’s true) occasionally something very regional like that will slip in that makes the people from other countries go “huh?” So…I’m guessing a joke about the DMV wouldn’t be a big hit with you either, right?
(The people you have to go to for your driver’s license — in most states, notorious for being horribly slow, inefficient, and utterly without any people skills.)
Oh, thanks to Patty and Selma i think the DMV is far wider known around the world than the “DOT” (that acronym isn’t commonly used in speech either, is it?)
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IRS, FDA, CIA, FBI, NSA, DMV, DEA, … all figure quite frequently in popular culture, DOT – not so much. In fact, if I’d been asked “What is an American institution referred to as the DOT” I’d probably have guess at the departmnt of treasury, rather than transportation.
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Of course, I realise that my experiences are not shared by any majority of the world’s inhabitants, so I am still just explaining my meh-ness. ;p
diss, after my husband and I finally went through the run around (that took a few weeks) to get our West Virginia driver’s licenses, the woman behind the counter handed them to us and said, “Welcome! You are now official hillbillies!” She had the slightest hint of a smile when she said it, and we laughed. It almost made the runaround bearable. Almost.
Love it! My most recent experience with the dmv here involved taking my son there. We went through the process: You get in “line 1″. When you get to the front of this line, you tell them what you are there for and they give you the appropriate form and a number. These numbers have varying letter prefixes…like B-47 or whatever. Then you wait for them to call your number, and this is the fun part — they might call three A numbers in a row, then a G, then two Cs and you’re sitting there with B-47 and note that the last B to get called was B-42…an hour ago.
Anyway, after all that we got all the forms done & processed and waited for them to call him to have his picture made. Got it taken and waited for the ID. He walked up to the desk to pick it up and then I see him pointing at the thing in an annoyed way and talking to the clerk….he walks back over looking out of sorts and plunks down into the chair. They’d made a mistake on his ID…it said he was “female”. We got it fixed….
Diss, what state is that? It sounds quite similar to the method they use in Pa, with one slight difference…if your son’s ID came out with a mistake, you’d have to start the process over again. The young men that I work with all have to get state ID’s and Driving Permits (which go through the DMV) and that has happened on more than one occasion…
Tennessee, and I guess I should be glad it’s NOT Pa! It’s always a most-of-the-day thing, anyway.
When we have to go to the PA DMV, we be sure to bring a snack, drinks and plenty of Prozac…
man i’m glad i live in a small town. smallish anyway. DMV is busy but i got my driver’s test and license knocked out before lunch.
*starts humming John Cougar Mellencamp’s ‘Small Town’*
well, at least you got “it” fixed and not your son! Did you have to fight the urge to yell BINGO when you number was called? I would have.
How could the dmv mess up gender?
It is run by humans. I don’t know about you, but I’m not perfect in every way!
Yelling BINGO has definitely occurred to me…but I’m afraid they’d kick me out and I’d have to start over. And I don’t know, but I guess it’s just a matter of hitting the wrong key! He was pretty mortified. (he was 14, so you can imagine…)
Yes, I have one (male child that is) turning 15 tomorrow, so I understand
entirely.
You are correct, viking gal, but unless the child’s name is one of those
gender neutral ones like Morgan or Kelly or Pat, the typist must have been operating on a sleep deficit.
sounds more like the place that sends you mad
I always feel like yelling “BINGO” when they call my number.
I didn’t think twice about the sensical-ness of it.
He kinda did a half a$$ job there, no?
His mother wanted him to be a doctor or an accountant…
His brother’s a lawyer!
His father was a hamster and his mother smelt of elderberries…
Anyone remember when funny captions were the ones that made it?
God, you’re old…
I KNOW, HUH?
Oi!! I’m God. Don’t believe me? Prove me wrong then!
JIHAD!!!
Good Idea. I (your God) demand Jihad against unfunny captions. The infidel voters must pay!
I wonder what they’re talking about… “Hey Bob, maybe it’ll go away in a couple of minutes. Lets just wait it out, then we can get home.”…”Sh!t! The wife’s never gonna buy this excuse!”
If they’re anything like people around here, it’s something like “No, really, I’m sure it’s not that deep, we can make it across just fine! I have really high clearance in this truck!” This is usually followed by having their vehicle stall out in the water, or worse, start floating downstream…
Hehehe.
I suspect that’s a global kind of reasoning – at least your “people around here” could be quite accurately replaced with my “people around here”.
I think the first guy to try would be the owner of the motorcycle…
Heh. That, too, would be consistent with out local flavour of nuttiness.
our*
But did they say just before making that decision, “Here, hold my beer.”?
Usually followed by a visit to the emergency room or the morgue…
“It was a one-in-a-million shot doc, a one-in-a-million…”
Or possibly, “Hey, watch this!” which I maintain are very frequently the last words spoken (especially by young men) prior to horrible injury.
Famous last words: “Dude, check this out…”
that only applies to “klassy” folk from west virginia, pennsylvania, southern ohio, and kentucky.
Hey now, them’s fightin’ words ’round these parts…
figured as much. as an ohioan i have to get ‘em in while i can. it’s not like my football team (coughcoughbrownscoughcough) is anything to write home about.
I went to Ohio University and was surrounded by Browns/Bengals fans…fortunately it didn’t rub off…
you went to OU and know how to spell?! i thought that a requirement for graduation was that you be dumber than when you got there! (i know too many people who went to OU who drank and smoked their way through 4 years)
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i’m not a browns fan. it’s too depressing. but i am a bit masochistic… i’m a buckeyes fan. they’ll never get the national title but the games leading up to it are great.
just realized… it could be much worse. i could be a detroit lions fan.
I credit my ability to undo what OU did to transferring to a college back in Pa…;-)
And it could be alot worse…you could be a Cowboys fan!!!
@MG: It’s going to be better this year; we got rid of that prima donna Terrell Owens!
@diss: As an Eagles fan, I lived through the “T.O. Experience”…the day he signed with the Cowboys, my husband called a Cowboy-fan-friend of his and left this message: “Tag, you’re it!”…so to Buffalo fans, “TAG YOU’RE IT!”
*addendum*
I still love you, diss…even if you like the Cowboys…;-)
Don’t forget the Cardinals @@
@mg: You too, even if you’re an Eagles fan!
@Diss: I’ll back you up, Sistah!
*points to her #24 (Marion Barber) jersey,
ready for the first pre-season game*
My friend, Joanie, used to wear #81 at
our game parties. Looks like she has some
shopping to do…
*resists urge to say “Neener – Neener”*
which is then appropriately followed by “now, watch this”.
Or “Bet that I can…!”
LOL I know exactly what you mean there. Arizona actually has a law called “the stupid motorist law” that states if there is a warning sign and you drive your car through a flooded wash anyway, you have to pay for your own rescue. That always makes me giggle.
Looks like this may be a pic of the recent flooding they’ve had in northern Queensland. There are whole towns that are completely surrounded by water and they’ve been that way for a couple months now. It’s horrible! Food supplies having to be flown in and dropped cuz there’s nowhere for planes to land…crocs being washed into people’s back yards…kids having to be driven thru swollen creeks full of crocs to be able to get to school…there was one truck full of kids that was even attacked by a croc…and the water is receding none too quickly…but even so, the people in some of these areas have put together what they could to help out the victims of the bush fires in Victoria…way too much tragedy going on in Oz, at the moment…and not a damn thing funny about it.
I’d doubt that it’s the QL floodings. As far as I can see, there is not one caucasian looking dude in that photo. I’d guess India pr some other part of Asia*. (There seems to be some peculiar (as in not-the-Roman-alphabet) writing on that van too).
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That said, though: No, floods aren’t funny.
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*) Which makes it a pretty imprecise guess. :p
Bangladesh always seems to be flooding about this time of the year…
Ye, it is kinda hard to tell for sure where it’s at…and pardon the eyesight…it starts to get a bit fuzzy once you pass 40…8-p…I can’t really tell alot of the detail in the pic…but it just looks like alot of the pics from the flood zones in Qld…
Oh…and the only chuckle I got out of the whole situation is the fact that one thing you kept hearing was that the pubs were running out of beer…oh, noooooos!!!
Ooh, didn’t know about the flooding. Man, you all are going through some times, aren’t you? I’m sorry to hear about it and I hope you and yours are safe and keeping sane.
I don’t think this in QLD. First of all, you wouldn’t see people standing around wondering what to do, they would all be down at the pub drinking XXXX.
This is pretty boring.
I thought this was funny. I live in what most would call “the sticks” and roads are vital to us. I knew immediately what DOT stands for. No, it doesn’t look North American, but the idea is funny. My sympathy goes out to the Aussies who have been hit hard by nature’s forces.
A relative works for the DOT and I would love to send him a link to this, but he is very conservative and I don’t want to hear from him about some of the other postings on here. LOL I’m keeping this my little secret.
save this LOL as a picture and send it to him that way. he won’t need to come visit the site and see anything else, yet he’ll still get a laugh from the LOL that’s applicable to him.
not rocket science…