Working Daze by John Zakour and Scott Roberts for October 20, 2019

They’ve heard the raises going “poof” so often it’s not a threat anymore.

They were caught in the act of goofing off instead of working.

Goofing off is just as important to being productive as is actual work. Consider it as down time for maintenance.

then if they come from hot countries – the skin remains green when ripe.

What? Rita making sense?

I wish my office conversations had been as intellectual. Usually it was just “boss sniping”

Where’s Roy?

A norange. Folk etymology did the rest.

In Dutch they are called sinasappels, which seems to work out to Chinese apples. That makes orange juice sinasappelsap, which I think is a wonderful word.

Sounds like Rita hears sounds that nobody else seems to.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/29942/which-came-first-orange-color-or-orange-fruit

If you want to see how smart Jay is.

Actually, the fruit was originally called a norange. After many years of people saying a norange, many people thought they were saying an orange. The n, over time, migrated from the word norange (the name of the fruit) to the a (indefinite article).

An orange was not named after the color nor was the color named after the fruit.

Rita – go get a life!

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2010/mar/31/origin-of-the-orange

People only get raises for bizarre reasons (see Ed) anyway