The best of Bob 'quotes' thread

[CheeseSlice]

I'm in a cruel mood today, but its friday so what the heck

Here are two of my favourite bob quotes from various work emails. I see the same ones appear again and again from different people, so it must be something they are taught.


This usually appears in an email asking to verify something:

please confirm the same

This one is usually when bob can't get something to work and has decided only I can fix it, even though its got nothing to do with me...

please do the needful

Anyone else have any?

[MaryPoppins]

How's your Indian, Cheeseslice. Fluent yet?

[CheeseSlice]

How's your Indian, Cheeseslice. Fluent yet?

Nope.
No harm in finding it amusing though.

[MarillionFan]

"Hey Ghunga Din! Chop chop. Pronto. Capiche"

No. Mine seems fine.

[Ravello]

How's your Indian, Cheeseslice. Fluent yet?

I'm not sure there is such a language as Indian? Aren't there about 30 odd languages/dialects to choose from?

edit: having said that though MP, I do agree with your sentiments.

[gingerjedi]

"Click here for more informations" easy giveaway as to who coded Currys website.

[Jog On]

Looking forward to your positive reponse

This is how a lot of Bob Web design/SEO emails are concluded. I must try that one in an interview one day..

[suityou01]

It's not just Indian english. I work with a Ukrainian off shore dev team.

If they have a query it usually is in the form

"So let us explore few scenarios, blah blah bla a) blah blah blah b) blah blah blah c)
Please confirm which variant"

I find it indearing

[CheeseSlice]

I'm not sure there is such a language as Indian? Aren't there about 30 odd languages/dialects to choose from?

edit: having said that though MP, I do agree with your sentiments.

Its amazing just looking at wikipedia on this subject, there are quite a lot of them. Amazing really, but understandable when you have such a large country and limited infrastructure to cross pollinate communities.

I hope nobody has taken this thread to be some kind of racially motivated hate thread, it certainly wasn't meant to be. Apologies if anyone is offended in any way, but I just saw an email today which made me think of some of the memorable ones I've had over recent years and wanted to share some of them.

[minestrone]

I put a tender out for some Bob work and one replied with this little gem at the end...

"Awaiting at least some response."