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plonq ([personal profile] plonq) wrote2004-09-27 11:11 am

My Daily Dyslexia

"I am Dyslexic of Borg.  Your ass will be laminated."

I think I mentioned in an earlier post that they are starting up a women's hockey team in our office.  Last week they started selling bingo cards to raise money for the team, and today they mailed out the first five numbers drawn.  Since I had a few free minutes, I decided to do up a large bingo display on one of our white boards.  I wrote the letters across the top, and filled in columns of numbers below.  Using a different coloured pen I began circling the numbers that had been called.    B12... check.  I19... check.  O69... check.  G46...

Me: WTF?  G only goes up to 45.  What are these people on?
Co-worker: There's a G46 on my card.
Me: [checks his own card] There's one on my card too.  What bizarre variation on bingo are these people running?

I looked back and forth between one of the bingo cards and the white board a couple of times, trying to figure out what kind of numbering scheme they were using when I noticed that at the top of the columns of numbers, in bold block letters I'd written, "B I G N O".

D'oh!