The Golden Piston Award

we have this thing at work, amongst the english guys, its called the Golden Piston Award...long story but the Golden Piston is awarded weekly to the english person in the office who does or says the dumbest thing that week. its always been a mythical award, but rich actually made a physical effigy of the the trophy today. now usually, its had been metaphorically awarded to gareth, who habitually does and says dumbass things, however, the inaugural trophy was actually 'won' by myself today. looking back its a tad embarrassing, but the background to it all is that there are a lot of americans and canadians in niigata, and american words are creeping into the english language with my english friends, ie 'store' instead of 'shop' etc... and its a bit of a bugbear for me, so i usually correct my english friends on the use of 'americanisms', the Golden Piston Award was given for saying the dumbest this week...imagine the screen going all wavy in a flashback kinda way back to 3pm today, the conversation went a little something like this...

Rich - "...yeah, ill put it on my resume' "

Me - " mate, stop using american!"

Rich - "resume' is french"

Me - "oh yeah, but you should use the english, Curriculum Vitae"

Rich - "but thats latin"

Me - "oh....."

i guess you needed to be there...