Tim Healys Chutney Spoon Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 Baylee Dipepa sounds like he'll be on the front pages of the tabloids in a few years charging with sex offences.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 17 minutes ago, Carbomb said: I'm glad to see a guy called "Amissah" is not a striker. Sounds like Mark E Smith being asked for his daughter’s pronouns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finbar Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 I went to school with a Christopher Peacock which is fine until you call him Chris. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westlondonmist Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 (edited) 40 minutes ago, Finbar said: I went to school with a Christopher Peacock which is fine until you call him Chris. I worked with a guy who's last name was Peacock, he said he had a relative with that name. Could we worse, could be Ray. His mum was Rosie Anne so R A Peacock Edited March 20 by westlondonmist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted March 20 Paid Members Share Posted March 20 Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted March 21 Paid Members Share Posted March 21 there's a British journalist called Roger Boyes. That's good for a titter, but a friend of mine mentioned him being a customer at their work once, and seeing on their database that he was married, which meant at some point he stood in front of a crowd of people while someone asked them the question, "Do you, Roger Boyes..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted March 21 Paid Members Share Posted March 21 Again, maybe not quite in the spirit of this thread but I'm about to watch this Dutch horror film called Tailgate. Its Dutch title? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted March 21 Paid Members Share Posted March 21 Dutch is just an incredibly unserious language. Two of my favourites are this announcement from last year: Â Â Â And this book title, which sounds like someone drunkenly and increasingly aggressively quizzing you on Wally's whereabouts: Â Â Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted March 21 Paid Members Share Posted March 21 A friend living in the Netherlands told me about how his Dutch partner didn't correct him for several months, when he first learned used the phrase "Met vriendlijk groenten" at the end of emails and letters. He wanted to say "with friendly greetings", which is "met vriendlijk groeten". By adding the extra "n", he was signing off with "with friendly vegetables". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted March 21 Paid Members Share Posted March 21 my Dad used to work in the Netherlands a lot, and one of his colleagues in Rotterdam told him that he didn't need to bother learning Dutch, just learn the word "belachelijk" - it means "ridiculous", and he just said that if anyone starts trying to speak to you in Dutch, you just say that and walk off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBacon Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Belgian/Flemish (???) is just as funny. Hoofdcoach! It very much reads like a Scottish accent. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted March 21 Paid Members Share Posted March 21 6 hours ago, BomberPat said: And this book title, which sounds like someone drunkenly and increasingly aggressively quizzing you on Wally's whereabouts: Â I think that one's "Where's Wally Now?" which has Wally travelling through time. There's a lady on the Apprentice tonight by the name of Solitaire Townsend. Presumably at least one of her parents really enjoyed Live & Let Die. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted March 22 Moderators Share Posted March 22 18 hours ago, Carbomb said: A friend living in the Netherlands told me about how his Dutch partner didn't correct him for several months, when he first learned used the phrase "Met vriendlijk groenten" at the end of emails and letters. He wanted to say "with friendly greetings", which is "met vriendlijk groeten". By adding the extra "n", he was signing off with "with friendly vegetables". That would be a good pun to use in marketing emails if the Dutch have any oddbox / hello fresh type companies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted March 22 Paid Members Share Posted March 22 (edited) It's actually become our sign-off when we email each other (he's an actor on our roster). We did change it up - "with cordial aubergines", "with civil mushrooms", and, of course, "with kind parsnips" were a few variations. Edited March 22 by Carbomb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted March 22 Paid Members Share Posted March 22 My favourite email sign-off was when I was a PA for a bloke who had been director of a lot of big companies, and we would have to draft all his emails for him from stuff he'd handwritten and then print them for him to annotate and approve, a really torturous process. When emailing a business partner called Jon, he signed off "as they say in Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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