Lamp-post????

[Mr. Snrub]

At work today I overheard 2 people discussing a 3rd co-worker...and one of their comments was:

"So-and-so is *such* a lamp-post".

And, try as I might, I can't think what they're getting at with that comment. And now I'm curious. Has anyone else heard (or used) this description?

Any suggestions?

Or any other bizarre descriptions you'd like to share?

 

[coxon]

umm.. are your co-workers chinese?

i've heard the description in chinese...

lamp post... as being the third person...
the tagger-alonger...
when three's a crowd... that third person is a 'lamp post'...

 

[evade28]

dont know about bizzarre sayings but i have noticed the saying 'something FIERCE' (in place of something shocking) seems to be coming into fashion, sounds absoulely ridiculous, or should i say 'it sounded stupid, something fierce '

 

[Mobbs]

Originally posted by evade28
dont know about bizzarre sayings but i have noticed the saying 'something FIERCE' (in place of something shocking) seems to be coming into fashion, sounds absoulely ridiculous, or should i say 'it sounded stupid, something fierce '

I think thats a bit of a comeback actually, because I'm sure I'd heard that used in earlier times of my youth ... maybe it was in the 80s or so on.

 

[Mead]

The (adelaidean??) predilection for paying out, as, in the word of my brain dead, (psychotic follower of a nutty little cult) supervisor who hailed from the city of churches, 'So such and such was being a real jerk, and then I was FULLY paying out on him...'

Images of a slot machine with its doors swinging open sprung to mind.

 

[jefffff34]

OK then figure this one out for me please.....

Date: Round 10 friday night fixture Port v Coll
Location: AAMI Stadium Car Park

I was casually bouncing my football back and forth as we walked back to our car, of course I was wearing my Collingwood gear..., anyway the ball hit a stick and bounced away 5 or so metres from me and I trotted over to pick it up, it was near a car that already was moving and had someone out the window. His description goes something along the lines of - bald, red haired goaty, Port jumper - need I say more? Anyway he goes....

Port bloke - "Where's your pool cue?"
Me (obviously got no idea what the **** he is talking about attempts at some wit that would cut him to the bone) - "Beat us in a final you moron"
Port bloke (very cut up at that remark) - "Come back here and say that."
Me - (now just past the car) - I just said it walking past you ****head"

NOW

Someone please tell me what does "Where's your pool cue" mean???

 

[Uncle Steve]

Originally posted by Mr. Snrub
"So-and-so is *such* a lamp-post".

And, try as I might, I can't think what they're getting at with that comment. And now I'm curious. Has anyone else heard (or used) this description?

Any suggestions?

Perhaps he frequently gets ****ed on by domestic animals?

 

[Docker_Brat]

Originally posted by Hoggy
OK then figure this one out for me please.....

Date: Round 10 friday night fixture Port v Coll
Location: AAMI Stadium Car Park

I was casually bouncing my football back and forth as we walked back to our car, of course I was wearing my Collingwood gear..., anyway the ball hit a stick and bounced away 5 or so metres from me and I trotted over to pick it up, it was near a car that already was moving and had someone out the window. His description goes something along the lines of - bald, red haired goaty, Port jumper - need I say more? Anyway he goes....

Port bloke - "Where's your pool cue?"
Me (obviously got no idea what the **** he is talking about attempts at some wit that would cut him to the bone) - "Beat us in a final you moron"
Port bloke (very cut up at that remark) - "Come back here and say that."
Me - (now just past the car) - I just said it walking past you ****head"

NOW

Someone please tell me what does "Where's your pool cue" mean???

Perhaps he was referring to the fact your ball hit a stick and bounced off, or some such lame attempt at wit.

I would've thought the lamp post comment was saying he/she does as much work as a lamp post, there's a light on but not much else happening. I usually refer to fellow employees who are like that as 'logs'.

 

[Mr. Snrub]

Originally posted by Hoggy

Someone please tell me what does "Where's your pool cue" mean???

My guess would be he might be trying to say you were blind (pool cue = white cane) for losing the ball and almost hitting their car, but he stuffed it up????

I like coxon's idea for the lamp-post one...none of the people involved were chinese but they might have picked it up from somewhere. Or maybe they meant "bright but otherwise useless" or something by it?