So, I've got this friend at work. Let's call him Matt. (That's his name, Matt.) He's got this whiteboard at work, I've occasionally gone into his cube and drawn some things on it, like a little picture of Homestar saying that I "bwoke into your workybox" and suchlike. Haven't done anything in a while. He was out at lunch the other day, and so as I walked by and decided to go for a more classic cartoon: Doug. I went for the first quote that came to mind, one you can see on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0YwtVYYonI for instant comedy gold. Right? So I scrawled "THERE'S A BOMB IN THE LASAGNA" on the board and slipped out, no witnesses.
An hour later Matt comes into my cube and asks, "Do you know the old Nicktoon Doug?" I figured he rightly suspected me of the "vandalism", so I played dumb. "Oh yeah, I remember that, it's been a while." "Well, you wouldn't believe this, but there was a Doug quote on my whiteboard when I got back from lunch today." I pretended to try in vain to come up with a quote from it, saying it'd been a while. "It's an obscure one. I had to have Jake" (you don't know him) "look it up on his phone. But it was..." (he got quiet) "'There's a bomb in the lasagna.'" I laughed a little bit, and he said, "That could've gotten me FIRED. You can't write stuff like that in the workplace! I erased it right away, but that might've gotten me into some serious trouble."
Oops. That... that did not come to mind.
"Wow," I responded. "Do you know who did that? That's crazy." "No, most everyone was at lunch with me. I thought it might've been you, but you have nicer whiteboard handwriting. Unless you're some handwriting shapeshifter, I know it wasn't you." I had fun goading him on to guess and wonder who it could've been that did that, and we had some fun speculations, but I didn't fess up until today. We had a good laugh, but yeah... of all the randomly pulled-out-of-thin-air quotes to select, I probably did not make the wisest choice.
On the bright side, he's inviting me over his place next week to watch Doug among other shows.