yep, definitely the best thread ever!
then there was the client (same company) who was, like, totally obsessed with the idea that all the links on the site should be jigsaw-piece shaped buttons.
she'd done a one-day html course (shudder).
and she ALWAYS called the @ symbol an 'ampersand' : "can we maybe have a big chrome spinning ampersand for the email link? because people associate the ampersand with the web, don't they?"
bwah-aha-hah!