Bad Bascomb, SASS # 47,494 Posted March 14 Posted March 14 Foolish Husband Doesn't Know ‘Whenever You Get A Chance’ Means ‘Right Now’ 4 1 4 Quote
Sedalia Dave Posted March 14 Posted March 14 On 3/12/2025 at 7:37 PM, Buckshot Bear said: Was this fairdinkum? 1 2 Quote
Eyesa Horg Posted March 14 Posted March 14 9 hours ago, Bad Bascomb, SASS # 47,494 said: Makes me wanna pop a cap in his arse 2 2 Quote
Cypress Sun Posted March 14 Posted March 14 2 hours ago, Bandit Biker said: Gotta wonder about the pic's. He seems to dislike people in animal costumes, spiders and some woman. 2 3 Quote
Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 Posted March 14 Posted March 14 (edited) I think this warrants more of an eggsplaination. Edited March 14 by Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 1 5 1 Quote
Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L Posted March 15 Posted March 15 3 hours ago, Alpo said: The HR director at my work tried to pull this one on me during an all hands meeting one time (She and I had a few minor run ins prior.) Since I knew of this, I rapidly rattled off all of the right answers and she had to backtrack and explain to the attendees that most people will say the word and not the color of the word. 1 3 Quote
Cypress Sun Posted March 15 Posted March 15 2 hours ago, Alpo said: Ah yes, my first swimming lessons Damn near drowned until the drawstring broke on that burlap bag. The follow up lessons were even better! Guess how long I can hold a cinder block underwater! 5 Quote
Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L Posted March 15 Posted March 15 2 hours ago, Alpo said: In the 50's too! BTDT. I took a few swimming lessons and could not master it. Then, while taking lessons at a State Park lake, the instructor did just that - he threw me into 10+ feet of water and I learned very quickly! 2 Quote
Chantry Posted March 15 Posted March 15 On 3/12/2025 at 7:08 PM, Buckshot Bob said: And it's worth every penny to keep her there! 4 1 Quote
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted March 16 Posted March 16 3 hours ago, Alpo said: ......... like going "toilet" before you got into bed ........ 🤔 3 Quote
John Kloehr Posted March 16 Posted March 16 48 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said: Taking a journalism class back in High School, we were instructed in the importance of correct spelling. Webster's Dictionary the "the" reference for it. Webster went through all the words in it and removed things like the "u" in color and many other changes. I could not help but think that our the spelling reference was filled with intentional misspellings. Which could have led to: For example, in Year 1 that useless letter c would be dropped to be replased either by k or s, and likewise x would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which c would be retained would be the ch formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform w spelling, so that which and one would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish y replasing it with i and Iear 4 might fiks the g/j anomali wonse and for all. Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez c, y and x — bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez — tu riplais ch, sh, and th rispektivli. Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld. - Mark Twain (or one of at least two other likely authors) 3 2 1 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted March 17 Posted March 17 7 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said: I don't know what the English would think of "Australian" and how we have desecrated the English language 5 Quote
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted March 17 Posted March 17 .................. well, I think we improved it; ....... and made it somewhat "understandable" .... 🙃 4 Quote
Calamity Kris Posted March 17 Posted March 17 13 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said: German has about 385 dialects, not including the Swiss German and Austrian German dialects. I wonder which one they chose.................. 3 Quote
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted March 17 Posted March 17 2 hours ago, Calamity Kris said: German has about 385 dialects, not including the Swiss German and Austrian German dialects. I wonder which one they chose.................. I doubt that it'd be the Australian German dialect. 😉 3 Quote
Alpo Posted March 17 Posted March 17 3 hours ago, Calamity Kris said: German has about 385 dialects, not including the Swiss German and Austrian German dialects. I wonder which one they chose.................. My mother told me that she took German in college. And the instructor told the class that no matter how hard they worked in class they would not be able to speak German correctly. "I'm Swiss, so I don't speak German correctly. So I can't teach you correctly." 4 1 Quote
Subdeacon Joe Posted March 17 Posted March 17 54 minutes ago, Alpo said: My mother told me that she took German in college. And the instructor told the class that no matter how hard they worked in class they would not be able to speak German correctly. "I'm Swiss, so I don't speak German correctly. So I can't teach you correctly." Plattdeutsch vs. Hochdeutsch. 2 1 Quote
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