[orange4boy]

We once had a salesman in from a distributor selling various janitorial supplies at a wood shop I was working at. We were sitting on our benches having our coffee break. He had a bunch of products lined up on a bench and was explaining them to our foreman, Geoff, a gruff Northern Englander with a heavy accent who rarely smiled. Jeoff picked up a carboard box and said, quizzically "Wot's this then? Sweepin' compound? How does that work?"
The eager salesman began to earnestly show it to him.

Salesman seriously, "This product keeps the dust down while you sweep for a more effective clean-up operation"

The product consisted of a some kind of small chips covered in a tacky compound which he proceeded to sprinkle on to the plies of sawdust heaped on the floor. The foreman looked on politey as the salesman swept the floor, the "compound" completely overwhelmed and engulfed by the mounds of sawdust on the floor. Undaunted, he continued to sweep, explaining the various advantages of sweeping compound.

Geoff had a grin on his face and when he flashed us all a look, one of the guys sprayed his coffee out his nose as the rest of us tried to stifle our guffaws and make it look like we were laughing about something else.

Then Geoff says in a completely serious tone: "Does that sweepin' compound come in larger quantities then?" and we were all ROFL.