So Jimmy works with my friend Andrew. Here is Andrew's description of the man,
"ODJ is a 75 year old Chinese immigrant who has been working as a translator with the same company for 35 years. He isn't particularly overweight, but he does have heart problems. I met him just after he had quadruple bypass surgery. He is the nicest guy in the world with good intentions, but he is literally IMPOSSIBLE to understand sometimes."
I am not sure why his heart problems are relevant because our focus is on Jimmy's inability to understand or be understood in conversation. Hopefully he only translates documents.
So when ODJ is lost in translation, Andrew recaps the funny conversation, or really lack of conversation due to confusion. The stories I hear are fantastic, and because of that I convinced Andrew to write a blog about our friend ODJ. Andrew created the blog, but he only has two posts so far. Both written in early March. And the first post isn't even an ODJ story, it is a description of the blog and apparently my state of being possessed by the blogosphere. Lame!
Because of Andrew's epic failure to maintain his blog, I am typing up the some of the ODJ stories he has shared through text messaging while at work.
Enjoy.
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ODJ: you ever use the scoopie?
ODJ: you know the call you can make with your computer
Andrew: Oh Jimmy you mean skype?
ODJ: Oh so the E is sirent
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ODJ: where you on Tuesday?
Andrew: some friends from out of town wanted to go to Disneyland.
ODJ: you are the Disneyland.... UH, uh, uh, uh, uh, the ddisneyland uh... Guy!
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ODJ: you ever go to sex frags?
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Twice ODJ has asked who the lady is on Andrew's mug.
The lady isn't a lady. He is Garth from Wayne's World
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Jimmy thanked Andrew for helping him with an excel problem by showing him a video on his iPod. An inappropriate video for work.
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ODJ: I like going to West Covina office because they have genital services
Andrew: uuuummmm what?
ODJ: you know genital services. They clean everything.
Andrew: Ohhhh janitorial services.
ODJ: Oh yeah...
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ODJ: I'm wondering you is a fan of simons and garfunkel
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ODJ: do you watch person escape?
Andrew: what?
ODJ: that TV show with the prison
Andrew: you mean Prison Break
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If you enjoyed reading these ODJ conversation recaps you may also like Engrish.com.
If you didn't enjoy the short ODJ anecdotes, too bad. They are hilarious, especially when recapped by Andrew. Unfortunately, he fails to see the fun of blogging.
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