Friday, October 20, 2006

Language Barriers

A bus stops and two Italian men get on. They seat themselves and engage in animated conversation.
The lady sitting behind them ignores their conversation at first, but she listens in horror as one of the men says the following:
"Emma come first. Den I come. Two asses, dey come together. I come again. Two asses, dey come together again. I come again and pee twice. Then I come once-a more."
"You foul-mouthed swine," retorted the lady indignantly, "in this country we don't talk about our sex lives in public!"
"Hey, coola down lady," said the man, "Imma just tellun my friend howa to spella Mississippi."

13 comments:

NewYorkMoments said...

But do they knowhow to spell Timbuktoo?

badgerbob said...

Let's hear your version.

morbid misanthrope said...

That reminds me of the time I learned to spell Canada.

Anonymous said...

Why do such incidents always involve Italians?

Anonymous said...

bayi, you never did tell me who you are...

Anonymous said...

just thinking

it has never been my intention to remain mysterious. you write some of the most beautiful poetry and prose i have ever read. hence, my comments in your blog which you have stopped posting. i still miss your writing.

but badger will agree that this is hardly the platform for me to do a self expose. i can be contacted at bayiyap@hotmail.com. leave me an address where i can get back to you and i would be happy to introduce myself.

my apologies for the digression, badger.

Anonymous said...

How come everyone dumped me when I went to the new blog ?

badgerbob said...

Nym, still waiting for timbuctoo

Morb, was it a trying time? Lay it on us.

bayi, I concur. Any exposure on this site could be an open invitation to a barrage of strange comments from the bizarro world, lurkers, who monitor this site.

jt, you failed to acknowledge the creepy advances, from my rat cousin ,Willard, who was logging in as me, so he gave up trying.
The good news is that Willard is no longer with us, because we killed, and ate him.

Anonymous said...

jt

you rarely post in your new shared blog. i was there but i read without making any comments. i don't think we dumped you.

badger has a very engaging style and a weird sense of humor that seem to attract the dark side of us. :)

badgerbob said...

OMG!! I can't believe you said I have style. Tread very carefully. or before you know it, we will be overrun with metro-sexuals, filling up their man-bags with my jokes, and re-telling them at coffee houses everywhere.

Anonymous said...

B is prolific and my posts do get lost in there, but I will be trying to get back to my usual style... I restricted him to one or two posts a day and I'll try to keep up...

Bob, condolences (?) on willard... I'll try to be sure to acknowledge your 'advances' in the future.

badgerbob said...

You mean willard's , don't you?
And he is dead!

BD said...

Just comment on my posts you (appropriate lingo)s...