Posted by Els on 11/28/71 11:26

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.

>>> 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?

>>>>> Sometimes I drink stuff neat and sometimes I drink stuff sloppy. -Yet
>>>>> another difference in the sexes.
>>>>
>>>> Yup - we stop the intake before we make a mess. (well, I do)
>>>
>>> Well, I usually stop the intake before I throw up but sometimes that
>>> annoying gas turns out to be more than it seemed.
>>
>> You just gave away your age.
>
> Yeah? What is it?

23.7 physically and an alternating 17.3 and 30.1 mentally.
(rough estimates)

>>> 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?

>>> 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?

>>>>> 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.

>>>>> 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?

>> 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 ;-)

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