Posted by Els on 09/13/05 11:24

Neredbojias wrote:

> 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.

They should have handed you throat pastilles instead.

>>>>> 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.

<g>

>>>> 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 didn't talk - I wrote.

>>>>> 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,

Do indigenous Americans speak differently from 'regular' Americans?

> 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.

Ah, you were using the plural 'you', as in 'you women'.
Assuming I know what I'm talking about - how about you giving me some
pointers to make it not sound like said drivel? :-)

>> Nah... you? A queen? I find that hard to believe.
>
> Every man has his price.

Probably, but I'm not paying.

>>>>>>> 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.

Not.
http://cakili.image.pbase.com/image/41183780.jpg

>>>> 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.

<g>
It does /not/ taste like that! (Well, I've never really tried
petroleum distillate, so I'm guessing)

Cognac is kept in oak barrels for up to 50 years. Minimum age is 2
years though.

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