Really quite ridiculous
Everyone will have heard moans about how Mother's Day / Valentine's Day / Easter are becoming overly commercial festivals promoted only by Hallmark in order to boost card sales. Well yesterday I was shopping for a birthday card, and what I saw really takes the biscuit. Apparently April 26th is "Administrative Professional's Day" and there are cards you can buy to send to your nearest and dearest administrative professional. Oh my god.
posted by Claire @ 8:59 am
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10 Comments:
Trying to think if I know any administrative professionals...Bidwells Property Agents, perhaps?
Maybe instead of an Easter egg I should give them a rent demand made out of icing sugar and marzipan.
Surely almost everyone is an administrative professional, such as the nurse who administers laxatives, the commercial priest or carpet layers. Oh, scrap that last one...that's axminster.
Axminster is a pun? This is a new pun challenge, Pediment?
What am I supposed to do, find words that sound a bit like administer?
OK, what about the de facto head of state. Oh no, that's `Prime Minister'.
J
James, poor. I only had one pun in my comment, but at least it was a valid one!
Well, you've already used that one up. I could hardly say `commercial politician'.
If you really want me to continue the religious theme, what about the nun who is also a secretary?
J
And btw I count `axminster' as a failed pun. So your net punnage was 1-1=0. Do the math(s).
J
And yes, the nun is an `admin sister'. If you were wondering.
Ha, but you missed the 'scrap that last one' and 'ax[minster]' internal pun. It works on so many levels.
So many.
J
I think Administrative Professionals Day may, until recently, have been Secretaries Day. Then the secretaries decided it was less degrading to be known as `administrative professionals'.
How do I know this? From watching too much `Just Shoot Me'. So called because that's how you feel after watching.
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