Re: Dawn French Fan Club 3

MurielB Sam 5 Aoû - 9:29

gerardM a écrit:

outstanding

Excellent or exceptionally good:

gerardM Sam 5 Aoû - 11:49

MurielB a écrit:...
outstanding
Excellent or exceptionally good:

I'm glad these pictures provide you with new words Smile

especially "outstanding" which is a common one.

gerardM Sam 5 Aoû - 12:12

I was barely sitting down when I heard a voice from the other stall saying: “Hi, how are you?”
I’m not the type to start a conversation in the men’s restroom, but I don’t know what got into me, so I answered, somewhat embarrassed, ‘I’m doing just fine.”
And the other guy says: “So, what are you up to?”
What kind of question is that? At that point, I’m thinking this is too bizarre so I say: “Uhhh, I’m just traveling for work.”
At this point I am just trying to get out as fast as I can when I hear another question. “Can I come over?”
Ok, this question is just too weird for me but I figured I could just be polite and end the conversation. I tell him, “No… I’m a little busy right now!”
Then I hear the guy say nervously:
“Listen, I’ll have to call you back. Some guy is in the other stall answering all my questions.”

gerardM Sam 5 Aoû - 13:51

MurielB Sam 5 Aoû - 16:32

communication is difficult. There is always a gap between what you say and what the people understand.

gerardM Sam 5 Aoû - 18:09

gerardM Sam 5 Aoû - 18:11

gerardM Dim 6 Aoû - 15:49

A married couple went to the hospital to have their baby delivered.
Upon their arrival, the doctor said he had invented a new machine that would transfer a portion of the mothers pain to the baby’s father. He asked if they were willing to try it out. they were both very much in favor of it.
The doctor set the pain transfer to 10%, for starters, explaining that even 10% was probably more pain the father had ever experienced before. However, as the labor progressed, the husband felt fine and asked the doctor to go ahead and “kick it up a notch.”
The doctor then adjusted the machine to 20% pain transfer. The husband still feeling fine. The doctor checked the husbands blood pressure and was amazed at how well he was doing at this point, they decided to try for 50%. the husband continued to feel quite well.
Since the pain transfer was obviously helping out the wife considerably, the husband encouraged the doctor to transfer ALL the pain to him.
The wife delivered a healthy baby boy with virtually no pain. She and her husband were ecstatic. When they arrived home, they found the mail man dead on the porch.

MurielB Dim 6 Aoû - 16:44

No I don't know the meaning of that expression

To kick it up a notch=>To make things more intense, exciting, or interesting.

MurielB Dim 6 Aoû - 16:48

they found the mail man dead on the porch.

Excellent paternity test ! :-)

gerardM Dim 6 Aoû - 22:43

MurielB a écrit:No I don't know the meaning of that expression
To kick it up a notch=>To make things more intense, exciting, or interesting.

Not exactly Muriel, I guess you missed "notch".
You've to separate:
- To kick up = to cause to rise upward
- a notch = a level (Fr un cran)

gerardM Dim 6 Aoû - 22:53

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gerardM Lun 7 Aoû - 0:19

gerardM Lun 7 Aoû - 21:34

MurielB Lun 7 Aoû - 22:38

gerardM a écrit:
MurielB a écrit:No I don't know the meaning of that expression
To kick it up a notch=>To make things more intense, exciting, or interesting.
Not exactly Muriel, I guess you missed "notch".
You've to separate:
- To kick up = to cause to rise upward
- a notch = a level (Fr un cran)

Tx a lot Gérard.

gerardM Mar 8 Aoû - 9:45

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gerardM Mar 8 Aoû - 11:42

An Irish priest was transferred to Texas.
Father O’Malley rose from his bed one morning. It was a fine spring day in his new west Texas mission parish.
He walked to the window of his bedroom to get a deep breath of the beautiful day outside.
He then noticed there was a jackass lying dead in the middle of his front lawn. He promptly called the local police station.
The conversation went like this: “Good morning. This is Sergeant Jones. How might I help you?”
“And the best of the day te yerself. This is Father O’ Malley at St. Ann ‘s Catholic Church. There’s a jackass lying dead in me front lawn and would ye be so kind as to send a couple o’yer lads to take care of the matter?”
Sergeant Jones, considering himself quite a wit and recognizing the foreign accent, thought he would have a little fun with the good father, replied, “Well now Father, it was always my impression that you people took care of the last rites!”
There was dead silence on the line for a long moment...
Father O’Malley then replied: “Aye, ’tis certainly true; but we are also obliged to notify the next of kin first, which is the reason for me call.”

gerardM Mar 8 Aoû - 21:55

MurielB Mar 8 Aoû - 22:23

gerardM a écrit:
An Irish priest was transferred to Texas.
Father O’Malley rose from his bed one morning. It was a fine spring day in his new west Texas mission parish.
He walked to the window of his bedroom to get a deep breath of the beautiful day outside.
He then noticed there was a jackass lying dead in the middle of his front lawn. He promptly called the local police station.
The conversation went like this: “Good morning. This is Sergeant Jones. How might I help you?”
“And the best of the day te yerself. This is Father O’ Malley at St. Ann ‘s Catholic Church. There’s a jackass lying dead in me front lawn and would ye be so kind as to send a couple o’yer lads to take care of the matter?”
Sergeant Jones, considering himself quite a wit and recognizing the foreign accent, thought he would have a little fun with the good father, replied, “Well now Father, it was always my impression that you people took care of the last rites!”
There was dead silence on the line for a long moment...
Father O’Malley then replied: “Aye, ’tis certainly true; but we are also obliged to notify the next of kin first, which is the reason for me call.”

The nest of kin are the nearest blood relatives of a person who has died

gerardM Mer 9 Aoû - 9:07