Accidentally sending a text message about sharking someone to the person whom you're sharking, in a pitifully freudian mistake.

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God is that embarassing! and i did it twice!

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 17 May 2004 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

"sharking"?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 17 May 2004 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

what the fuck is sharking?

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 17 May 2004 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Led Zeppelin to thread.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 May 2004 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

That happened to me in an email; a friend (ginny) had been getting increasingly delusional and "postal"; I wrote an email to my friend Nic, saying how I was worried about her and didn't know what to do.

It ended up being sent to Ginny, and she never forgave me for it, convinced that everyone was talking behind her back.

― Psychokitty, Monday, 17 May 2004 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

xpost

that was a snapper!

http://www.charkbait.com/article/shark5.jpg

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 17 May 2004 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

sharking (as used by The Streets in their new song!) means to woo, to come on to, to fire into. It is howeve subtler than all those phrases and can be used in a number of lovely ways: the investment shark, the multiple download shark (too geeky?), the basking shark....

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 17 May 2004 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, drilling rights.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 17 May 2004 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

"drilling rights" fucking classic, teeny.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 17 May 2004 19:22 (twenty-two years ago)

....i'm not sure drilling rights is right. That would more be the 'divvy system'. Sharking is performed by both sexes and just is the gentle art of making someone love you.

or like you enough to kiss you.

or speak to you.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 17 May 2004 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

this feels truly awful when it happens.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:15 (twenty-two years ago)

christ, it was. the first one was fairly non-descriptive and i managed too pass off as a genuine mistake. the second just made me look like a total weirdo, with crazy fancywarmth (hey! i'm all in for the ridculous words today). to make it worse i was with my ex-girlfriend when I mis-sent the second one and so was panicing and couldn't really tell her why.

god! am i supposed to be a grown up?

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I did this before after asking a girl out, I texted my best friend and was like "she said she'd love to! great!" but sent the text to her by mistake.

I'm convinced this made her CEO of Ronan's heart for the rest of the time we saw each other.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I did this at work (we have an intra-company IM dingus). I was making a joke about a co-worker's less-than-loyal feelings about her boyfriend and I sent it to her. I remember the feel of cold dread, but I made an amazing save. She was standing up at her desk talking to the IT guy that was hitting on her (that inspired my joke), and I walked over and closed the window (there's no history function so that was that), then smiled charmingly when she gave me the "what the hell was that?" look. Doesn't get much closer than that, folks.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

we have an intra-company IM dingus

Does the dingus dangle duly?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:32 (twenty-two years ago)

i did contemplate in some way stealing her phone.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

i've done this with the phone - dialed the person i was going to talk about. it goes 1) panic when they answer 2) stupid fumbling for excuse why you called 3) mucho guilt

― bnw (bnw), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

A friend who worked in IT for a ~200 person software company replied to a "we need people" mail by volunteering his ex-girlfriend, who was looking for a job, and pointing out that he could guarantee that she will work hard for results, or something equally cringeworthy. You can guess what happened next, and what happened next after that is that the mail server was taken down for emergency repairs.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't guess, tell me!

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 17 May 2004 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

three weeks pass...

Er, he'd sent it to everyone in the company.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 10 June 2004 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

wish sharking had caught on.

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Sunday, 13 March 2011 06:07 (fifteen years ago)

at my high school "sharking" meant pulling down someone's shorts and showing their underwear

― corey, Sunday, 13 March 2011 06:24 (fifteen years ago)

Sharking, meaning being on the pull, was a common term when I was a student in the early 90s.

― Alba, Sunday, 13 March 2011 09:54 (fifteen years ago)

Weird, in Ireland we used "sharking" to mean buying garden related products at a hardware store. Like you'd come back with a new strimmer and someone would start humming the Jaws theme.

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Sunday, 13 March 2011 09:58 (fifteen years ago)

In Sharking Water

― one time, something happy craz (Trayce), Sunday, 13 March 2011 10:02 (fifteen years ago)

One time we had this one twat at work (who we later fired for both incompetence and being a completely foul personality). One day, she starts whining about how she works twice as hard as everybody. I got pissed, and went to gripe about it to a friend, but I sent an Instant Message to the twat instead.

I tried to play it off cool, but felt it futile. Then, I glanced up at her computer. Idiot was sitting in front of it gabbing, message blinking, hasn't clicked it.

The manager then suddenly walks with her into a room for her one on one, and I look at the computer, still flashing, unread.

Walked over to her computer nonchalantly and closed the Instant Message, walked back to my desk, disaster averted (it woulda started a war, believe me)

― hold my breathless i wish go dead (San Te), Sunday, 13 March 2011 15:11 (fifteen years ago)

eerily similar to

I did this at work (we have an intra-company IM dingus). I was making a joke about a co-worker's less-than-loyal feelings about her boyfriend and I sent it to her. I remember the feel of cold dread, but I made an amazing save. She was standing up at her desk talking to the IT guy that was hitting on her (that inspired my joke), and I walked over and closed the window (there's no history function so that was that), then smiled charmingly when she gave me the "what the hell was that?" look. Doesn't get much closer than that, folks.
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, May 17, 2004 8:30 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark

― bernard snowy, Sunday, 13 March 2011 15:18 (fifteen years ago)

i reread that like five times trying to figure out what good closing the windows was gonna do.

― plax (ico), Sunday, 13 March 2011 15:21 (fifteen years ago)

see I wouldn't have been bold enough to do it if she was at her desk, just woulda let her read it and go into her whiny shitstorm

― hold my breathless i wish go dead (San Te), Sunday, 13 March 2011 18:29 (fifteen years ago)

love both of those IM stories, intense little workplace moments

― NI, Sunday, 20 March 2011 16:22 (fifteen years ago)

sam rockwell or nic cage could make good little scenes out of either imo

― the '' key on my keybord is not working (darraghmac), Sunday, 20 March 2011 17:49 (fifteen years ago)

except w/ him the message woulda been read cuz his cokehead sniffing woulda alerted the girl to his presence within two or three steps

― sometimes magic sounds like tape (San Te), Sunday, 20 March 2011 20:24 (fifteen years ago)

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