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Posted by Neredbojias on 11/13/62 11:26
With neither quill nor qualm, Els quothed:
> Neredbojias wrote:
>
> [throat pastilles]
> >> Just try and say "allemachtig, dat is prachtig, niet één
> >> gereedschapskist, maar achtentachtig!" and you'll know what the
> >> pastilles are for.
> >
> > Piece of cake. I said it 250 times in a row and my throat never felt
> > better.
>
> You pronounced it the wrong way.
People were starting to give me strange looks.
>
> >>> Nah, don't worry. I need to learn just enough tulip talk so that when I
> >>> take a girl out to a restaurant and the bill comes, I can pull the old
> >>> surprise: Dutch-treat routine with some convincing lingo to back it up.
> >>
> >> Dutch girls are smarter than that/you.
> >
> > If Dutch girls are so smart, why do they call "accidentally" pregnant
> > girls "in Dutch"?
>
> Never heard that expression, but maybe it's cause the Dutch cap
> doesn't work that well?
Well, it's an older expression, but if Dutch caps are made of the same
material as their shoes, they wouldn't work well on anybody.
> >> You just gave away your age.
> >
> > Yeah? What is it?
>
> 23.7 physically and an alternating 17.3 and 30.1 mentally.
> (rough estimates)
Hell, my dentures are older than that.
>
> >>> In any case, I don't mean to condemn all Australians
> >>
> >> Let's leave it at that.
> >
> > You're starting to sound like my ex-wife.
>
> Don't all women?
Only if they talk.
>
> >>> I suppose I should take this opportunity to mention that "soft soap"
> >>> also means complimentary words that are insincere and/or gratuitous
> >>
> >> Ah, you mean those spoken by men who...
> >>
> >>> often voiced in an attempt to ingratiate oneself with a woman for
> >>> purposes which are a mystery to neither.
> >>
> >> Yup, those.
> >> I call that see-through-soap. Nothing soft about it.
> >
> > No wonder you have trouble with language.
>
> Since when do I have trouble with language?
Hey, let me say right now that you speak English about a million times
better than I speak Dutch and a lot better than most non-English-
speaking-natives speak it. Indeed, you speak it very much as would an
indigenous American woman, and therein lies the trouble. American men
have developed a sort of automatic filter for the vagaries of womanspeak
that's rather difficult to turn off even when said speak originates from
someone who knows what they're talking about but sounds like the drivel
the men are inured to.
>
> >>>>> Just because a person has something doesn't mean he is it.
> >>>>
> >>>> I didn't say it did.
> >>>
> >>> I didn't say you said it did.
> >>
> >> Good.
> >>
> >>> Btw, it did what?
> >>
> >> Nothing. It was used in a negative. Like "didn't".
> >>
> >>> Oh, this is another one of them Dutch idioms, isn't it?
> >>
> >> It isn't.
> >> It's English grammar.
> >
> > This sounds like one of them circular arguments where someone ends up
> > saying, "Well I'm the Queen of England!"
>
> Nah... you? A queen? I find that hard to believe.
Every man has his price.
>
> >>>>> Oh, there was a "neritboias ixtl" or
> >>>>> something like that mentioned in paleo-Incan scrawlings discovered
> >>>>> inside a cave near Chichen Itza, but I think it was simply their pet
> >>>>> name for the outhouse.
> >>>>
> >>>> Sounds like a reasonable assumption.
> >>>
> >>> Wish you were one of my dissenting colleagues.
> >>
> >> No you don't.
> >
> > Yeah, you're right. Women don't belong on the trail.
>
> What trail?
The Santa Fe trail. Strictly man territory.
>
> >> How old do you think good aged Cognac really is?
> >
> > Oh, 2-3 months. I never actually understood the reference, but
> > everybody uses it so...
>
> Good aged Cognac is older than you are ;-)
No wonder it tastes like petroleum distillate.
--
Neredbojias
Contrary to popular belief, it is believable.
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