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Theo: “Thank you for calling Last Hope Help Desk; my name is Theo. How may I assist you?” Voice on phone: “Yes, I’m calling about Special Offer 21.”
Theo: “Certainly, sir. That’s our package of high-quality animated files that you can install directly onto your website, desktop, or screen saver.” Voice on phone: “Actually, I’m wondering if I could make it a present for my son’s birthday.”
Theo: “Absolutely! I can provide a coupon for you; your son can redeem it at his leisure.”
Voice on phone: “So it’s a GIF certificate?” Theo: “I’ll alert the marketing department to change the name at once, sir.”

I’m going to get a lot of laughs from some folks and merry hell from others. There is a continuing controversy over whether the “G” is hard or soft. Some people say it’s pronounced like the peanut butter brand, “Jif”, while others use the hard “G”, which is what makes this joke work. I went for the joke. It’s a common failing among punsters like myself. Deal with it.  😀

Chapter

  • Theo at the Help Desk

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  • Last Hope Help Desk

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Kantuck Nadie nadie-akon
June 11, 2019, 3:59 pm
(puts a paw to her muzzle, and groans loudly) “Oh deer gods…someone swat the writer with a newspaper! (giggles)
 
Tristan Black Wolf
June 11, 2019, 7:02 pm
And you’ll notice that I didn’t use lower-case letters; that makes it capital pun-ishment. *dodges another newspaper*
 
kantuck nadie nata-akon
June 13, 2019, 12:06 pm
Groan!!
 
Casanova
June 14, 2019, 1:12 am
I personally say it with a hard G. Even though the original developer(s) wanted it to sound like the peanut butter brand, I can only guess that people did not want to confuse the file format with the peanut butter brand.