van Godge
Got a call from someone from ABN AMRO today... was going to refrain from mentioning the bank, but the joke would be totally lost without it...
Anyways, he called to offer me free membership in van Godge Priority / Preferred (?) banking... as you can imagine, I burst out laughing both at the idea of (i) this poor guy being given this assignment and totally not knowing who van Gogh was and thus was puzzled how the bloody hell to pronounce the word, and (ii) of all people, why me, the relative churchmouse compared to my fat-cat lawyer brethren for something which requires a 200k investment / deposit...
Anyways, he called to offer me free membership in van Godge Priority / Preferred (?) banking... as you can imagine, I burst out laughing both at the idea of (i) this poor guy being given this assignment and totally not knowing who van Gogh was and thus was puzzled how the bloody hell to pronounce the word, and (ii) of all people, why me, the relative churchmouse compared to my fat-cat lawyer brethren for something which requires a 200k investment / deposit...
posted by Woof! at 12:05 PM
4 Comments:
Hahaha... didn't you set the poor guy right? :)
Haha, i know what you mean. So many times i've had people calling me up trying to promote some product with an unpronouncable name (to them at least). And me, being so nice, usually just go "What?"
The other type i dislike are those who call up and go "So how is your day?" I mean seriously, you're not my friend, why should i tell you my day was sorrier than a rat's ass.
And anyway, why do they call me? I'm drawing a bloody lowly ranked civil servant salary for goodness sake!
Acherly hor, is it pronounced "van goh" or "van goff" ? I have heard both pronunciations.
If it's the former, and the telemarketer had pronounced it so, I'd imagine many people to go, "Who ? Ben Goh ? Siang lai leh ?"
BB: I didn't have the heart too :D
AL: Funny that you should say, cos I was watching this episode of Seinfeld last night where Seinfeld did the following when he got a call from the telemarketer:
"would you mind giving me your pricate number so I can call you back?"
"I'm afraid I can't do that"
"Then you know how I feel about you calling me on my private number"
LCN: I think it's "gor-hhh"... for the last bit, pretend you are trying to expel phelgm from you throat... haha
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