The Butch-er of Benghazi
Good one! Heh, I have a young guy working with me who I had to send to cut some tie-wraps from around some wires, so I handed him some wire cutters and said “You better take this pair of dykes with you”
He looked at me in bewilderment, his mouth opened and closed a few times, and finally I noticed and asked him what was wrong with him.
He stammered and stuttered, then said “That’s a weird name...” and I looked back at him in equal confusion saying “Huh? What?”
I didn’t get it at all, then all of a sudden it hit me and I exclaimed “Good God, you think I was making a sexual reference!”
I had to explain to him what “Dykes” were and how all mechanics call them that.
Then when I went home, I had to immediately log on and search, wondering to myself if there actually HAD been an original sexual reference that I had been blissfully unaware of all these years....thankfully, no. Just short for “Diagonal Cutters”...”Dykes”!
He made me look, though!