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[Zeb_Carter]

It seems that now the scum of the earth are pretending to be our boys in uniform for their scams...

Received this today...

From: "Sgt. Nelson Dillon" <info@mail.com>
To: undisclosed-recipients

My name is Sgt. Nelson Dillon, serving in the Engineering military unit in
Ba'qubah in Iraq.I do have a business proposal for you in the amount of
$15,350,000 MILLIONS US DOLLARS.Do get back to me if you are interested
for further details.

I just bet they do!

 

[stephen55]

Still waiting............

I guess we all get these e-mails. I'm waiting for one that (truthfully) states...

If you check your bank account, you will see that I deposited $17,575,348.55, which comes from a business associate who wants you to have it. Please send me $2.25 for the transaction fee.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Me too...

Say la vie. (is that right? I don't speak French.)

 

[midwestyankee]

Me too...

Say la vie. (is that right? I don't speak French.)

It's spelled c'est la vie, but you got the pronunciation right, to be sure.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

It's spelled c'est la vie, but you got the pronunciation right, to be sure.

Thanks. The only other languages I speak/read are English, Ghetto and Korean. And Korean I just speak. All those stick figures are really hard to learn.

 

[stephen55]

How many is that...?

I have a gift for languages. I am fluent in English, American, New Zealand, Australian, Canadian and have almost mastered Scottish and Irish. The one that has always been impossible for me is Newfoundland.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I have a gift for languages. I am fluent in English, American, New Zealand, Australian, Canadian and have almost mastered Scottish and Irish. The one that has always been impossible for me is Newfoundland.

Come to think of it I speak all those too!

I have always had trouble with Maine. They speak a different kind of the American up there. And Welsh is a little hard to understand until you ear adjusts.

 

[stephen55]

A buddy of mine comes from Newfoundland. When he started Elementary School, he was put in English As A Second Language class.

One of my Favourite Newfie jokes....

Buddy Whatzhizname was sitting around the fire, out at the gravel pit, with a few chums having a cuppa tea in the woods. He told the buds about meeting an American...

By's, I wuz down Conception Bay ways...doin' some squiddin'. I cum in... fine feed a squid, fine feed....slippin' off me Tor Bay pantyhose...an' this fella cums up...'Mericun he wuz an' he sez he duz..."I uz just watchin' some scoooba divers," scoooba divers he sez, an' he sez "How cum they alluz fall backerds off the side a the boat?"

Now, what ya gonna do with a fella that thick? By tunderin' Jezaas by's...what ya gonna do? So I figurs I gotta set 'im straight...straight like...else, how's he gonna know...how's he gonna know? So I tells 'im...I tells 'im, "It's like this by', like this'," I tells 'im, " Cuz if they fell forerds off the side a the boat...they'd still be in the fuckin' boat, now wouldn' they!!"

 

[voluptuary_manque]

A buddy of mine comes from Newfoundland. When he started Elementary School, he was put in English As A Second Language class.

One of my Favourite Newfie jokes....

Buddy Whatzhizname was sitting around the fire, out at the gravel pit, with a few chums having a cuppa tea in the woods. He told the buds about meeting an American...

By's, I wuz down Conception Bay ways...doin' some squiddin'. I cum in... fine feed a squid, fine feed....slippin' off me Tor Bay pantyhose...an' this fella cums up...'Mericun he wuz an' he sez he duz..."I uz just watchin' some scoooba divers," scoooba divers he sez, an' he sez "How cum they alluz fall backerds off the side a the boat?"

Now, what ya gonna do with a fella that thick? By tunderin' Jezaas by's...what ya gonna do? So I figurs I gotta set 'im straight...straight like...else, how's he gonna know...how's he gonna know? So I tells 'im...I tells 'im, "It's like this by', like this'," I tells 'im, " Cuz if they fell forerds off the side a the boat...they'd still be in the fuckin' boat, now wouldn' they!!"

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[MzDeviancy]

A buddy of mine comes from Newfoundland. When he started Elementary School, he was put in English As A Second Language class.

One of my Favourite Newfie jokes....

Buddy Whatzhizname was sitting around the fire, out at the gravel pit, with a few chums having a cuppa tea in the woods. He told the buds about meeting an American...

By's, I wuz down Conception Bay ways...doin' some squiddin'. I cum in... fine feed a squid, fine feed....slippin' off me Tor Bay pantyhose...an' this fella cums up...'Mericun he wuz an' he sez he duz..."I uz just watchin' some scoooba divers," scoooba divers he sez, an' he sez "How cum they alluz fall backerds off the side a the boat?"

Now, what ya gonna do with a fella that thick? By tunderin' Jezaas by's...what ya gonna do? So I figurs I gotta set 'im straight...straight like...else, how's he gonna know...how's he gonna know? So I tells 'im...I tells 'im, "It's like this by', like this'," I tells 'im, " Cuz if they fell forerds off the side a the boat...they'd still be in the fuckin' boat, now wouldn' they!!"

LMFAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOO

Fuck, I love Newfies. They're the greatest thing about Canada.

 

[midwestyankee]

Come to think of it I speak all those too!

I have always had trouble with Maine. They speak a different kind of the American up there. And Welsh is a little hard to understand until you ear adjusts.

Let's just say that, having grown up in Maine, I followed the dialogue in stephen55's Newfie joke perfectly. The dialectal variations exhibited by the coastal inhabitants of both places are somewhat related.

Comedy is a great revealer of regional linguistic differences.

Comedy from Maine: Bob Marley

Comedy from Wales

 

[Handley_Page]

Strange that one from Bob Marley (who I thought was the late Reggae singer).

"Innit." We get that a lot in England, mostly, I suspect, due to a particular TV comedian; (he was taking the piss but the kids didn't get it, just kept quoting him).

"Well, its like vis innit. . . . . . . ."

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Let's just say that, having grown up in Maine, I followed the dialogue in stephen55's Newfie joke perfectly. The dialectal variations exhibited by the coastal inhabitants of both places are somewhat related.

Comedy is a great revealer of regional linguistic differences.

Comedy from Maine: Bob Marley

Comedy from Wales

Very good. I actually understood both!

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Oh, I just remembered, I also speak redneck...

Redneck Dictionary: witchadidja

"Hey Bob, you did bring your truck witchadidja?

Redneck Dictionary: mayonnaise

"Mayonnaise there sure are a lot of people here."