Posted by Els on 10/21/98 11:26

Neredbojias wrote:
>> Any English speaking person wanting to learn Dutch should have some
>> sort of stamina, as well as a healthy supply of throat pastilles.
>
> Stamina?

not giving up too easily

> Throat whatever-pastilles-are?

lozenges

> Oh, I get it. When people think you're Dutch, you have to run away
> before they throttle you.

eh.. not quite.
Just try and say "allemachtig, dat is prachtig, niet één
gereedschapskist, maar achtentachtig!" and you'll know what the
pastilles are for.

> 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.

>>> 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.

[Aussies]
>> they speak English (albeit a funny form of it).
>
> I thought that was the British?

No, the British speak English. It's then the Aussies and South
Africans who sound a bit funny, and it's the 'Mericans who lost the
ability to speak English altogether since they crossed the big pond.

> In any case, I don't mean to condemn all Australians

Let's leave it at that.

> What if a man wants to
> cleanse those delicate, sensitive places where the sun don't shine and a
> bar just doesn't quite fit?

Oops, I forgot - you're one of those males who don't know how to use
soap in a normal decent manner. Ever wondered why a woman will always
use soft soap if there is the slightest possibility a man may have
used the plain soap?

>> That, and by mums like myself, for the kids to wash their hands when
>> they have played outside. Soft soap doesn't last long in small kids'
>> hands.
>
> 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.

>>> 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.

>>> 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.

>>> Really? I'm impressed.
>>
>> You're easily impressed.
>
> Yep. My naivety is exceeded only by my ability to exploit it.

How old do you think good aged Cognac really is?

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