Re: Dawn French Fan Club 2

gerardM Ven 9 Oct - 22:22

A family moves into a new neighborhood, one day the family overslept and their six-year-old daughter missed her school bus.
The father, though late for work himself, had to drive her. Since he did not know the way, he said that she would have to direct him to the school.
They rode several blocks before she told him to turn the first time, several more before she indicated another turn.
This went on for 20 minutes - but when they finally reached the school, it proved to be only a short distance from their home.
The father, much annoyed, asked his daughter why she'd led him around in such a circle.
The child explained, "That's the way the school bus goes, Daddy. It's the only way I know."

gerardM Ven 9 Oct - 22:30

MurielB Sam 10 Oct - 21:11

here, the sentence is rather about couples of countries and not a general meeting with oodles of attendees so that the "non-discussion" is thought as between-two, hence "each other".

Gérard if women ruled the world it wouldn't be a generalized war, just countries arguing in pairs !

gerardM Dim 11 Oct - 0:12

gerardM Dim 11 Oct - 0:19

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... and losing weight; 3 years.

gerardM Dim 11 Oct - 0:33

gerardM Dim 11 Oct - 0:39

gerardM Dim 11 Oct - 11:48

Tom is applying for a job as a signalman for the local railroad and is told to meet the inspector at the signal box.
The inspector decides to give Tom a pop quiz, asking: "What would you do if you realized that two trains were heading towards each other on the same track?"
Tom says: "I would switch one train to another track."
"What if the lever broke?" asks the inspector.
"Then I'd run down to the tracks and use the manual lever down there," answers Tom.
"What if that had been struck by lightning?" challenges the inspector.
"Then," Tom continued, "I'd run back up here and use the phone to call the next signal box."
"What if the phone was being used?"
"In that case," Tom argued, "I'd run to the street level and use the public phone near the station."
"What if that had been vandalized?"
"Oh well," said Tom, "in that case I would run into town and get my Uncle Leo."
This puzzled the inspector, so he asked, "Why would you do that?"
"Because he's never seen a train crash."

gerardM Dim 11 Oct - 12:00

gerardM Dim 11 Oct - 17:39

gerardM Dim 11 Oct - 21:07

MurielB Dim 11 Oct - 21:29

Another expression I had to check out on the net

To suck it up is to deal with something displeasing.

gerardM Lun 12 Oct - 22:41

A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.
"Why?" asks the confused waitress, as the panda goes towards the exit.
The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."
The waitress turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.
"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

gerardM Mar 13 Oct - 11:31

An American tourist went into a restaurant in a Spanish provincial city for dinner, and asked to be served the specialty of the house.
When the dish arrived, he asked what kind of meat it contained. "Senor, these are the cojones," the waiter replied.
"The what, you say?" exclaimed the tourist.
"They are the testicles of the bull killed in the ring today," explained the waiter.
The tourist gulped, but tasted the dish anyway, and found it delicious. Returning the following evening, he asked for the same dish.
After he finished the meal, the tourist commented to the waiter: "Today's cojones are much saltier and smaller than the ones I had yesterday."
"True, senor," agreed the waiter. "You see, the bull, he does not always lose."

MurielB Mar 13 Oct - 21:19

"You see, the bull, he does not always lose."

gerardM Mer 14 Oct - 22:55

gerardM Mer 14 Oct - 23:24

A Grandma who had serious hearing problems for a number of years went to the doctor to be fitted for a hearing aid that would return her hearing to 100%.
The grandma went back for further tests a month later and the doctor said, "Your hearing is perfect. Your family must be really pleased that you can hear again."
To which the elderly woman replied, "Oh, I haven't told my family yet. I just sit around and listen to the conversations. I've changed my will three times!"