Friday I was filling out some applications looking for some part time work. I stopped by Office Depot filled out my application and gave it to one of the employees there. He took me to a computer where I continued the application process (which consisted of personality profile and what I would do in several situations).
Once I was done I returned to the gentlemen who called one of the managers to come talk to me. When he was speaking to the manager he said "Its the whale I told you about." Not wanting to make a scene I did not question him about it but I am curious what that term means. (To let you know I am not overweight). Has anyone ever heard of this term?
I don't really know, but they MIGHT mean, "Thar she blows!"; which is Old Whaler slang for, "We've found what we've been looking for".
Good try, Mike, but I can't see "whale" in any way being meant complimentary.
Triggins, if you are not overweight, I don't have any idea what the guy might have meant either.
I have been trying to come up with other words that you might have misheard as "whale," but so far, none of them make any more sense.
Well, will, wall, wheel, yell, hail, rail, rill, tail, tell,...
The only thing close that I could come up with that would make sense is "fellow," but that is not so close that it would be easy to mistake it.
This probably doesn't help, but a big-time gambler is called a 'whale.'
I've always wondered if there's a lower age limit on "Unrated" DVD sets, or if its the same as an "R" rated movie. Anyone know?
"Unrated" means rated "R" or "NC-17"
No actually Unrated means that it is a version of the film that has not been submitted to the MPAA's rating board, which is the only board that can give a movie their trademarked ratings (G, PG, PG-13, R or NC-17.) Most stores choose to treat unrated films as they would R or NC-17 ones, which has created problems when that caused them to stock foreign childrens' films (which were released by small distributors who did not have the cash to spend on being rated by the MPAA) along side adult titles.
Netflix has handled that problem by labelling some DVDs UR ("unrated") (the cut of an R movie that would probably have gotten it a NC-17), and others NR ("not rated") (independent, foreign, and pre-MPAA).