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17162. Magoseph - 10/22/2005 4:41:39 PM Hey, Judith—I’m fine and dandy, prancing around the house while Flexy is meeting with his kids and grandkids, a meeting to which my presence is superfluous, as I piously said to him. What happens usually when I accompany with him is that the four girls are much more interested in me than they are in their grandpa. Of course, their interest has nothing to do with my well-known charm, but only in the fact that I can play with them.
 17163. Ms. No - 10/23/2005 3:04:56 AM Ah! I loved that movie! 17164. jexster - 10/23/2005 7:00:02 PM Bring me ACE
Bring me NINER
Bring me PINCHER
Bring me RUSTLER
Bring me CALIGULA
Bring them all to MY PERFECT WORLD OF SHIT 17165. Macnas - 10/24/2005 9:22:08 AM What you need jex, is a little time off! 17166. jayackroyd - 10/24/2005 2:33:09 PM Some guy named Ralph from Michigan with a weird predeliction for caviar metaphors has a letter in today's NYTimes. 17167. Macnas - 10/24/2005 4:03:09 PM Too many caviar metaphors are bad for your health.
The sturgeon general says so. 17168. alistairconnor - 10/24/2005 4:33:21 PM That's wonderfully awful Mac...
The problem with stuff that gets me shaking with laughter, is that there's no way in the world I can explain it to my French office mates. So it just reinforces my reputation for weirdness.
(otherwise well-earned I might add) 17169. alistairconnor - 10/24/2005 4:37:34 PM The other thing that cracked me up today, I read in the Guardian sports section. This soccer commentator Rodney Marsh, explaining a bad-taste joke with the coach ended his international career :
Basically, before one match, he said to me "I'll be watching you for the first 45 minutes and if you don't work harder I'll pull you off at halftime." And I said, "Christ, we only get a cup of tea and oranges at Fulham!" And that's the last time I played for England.
It just doesn't survive translation. 17170. Macnas - 10/24/2005 4:40:41 PM Heard that before, still gets a chuckle. 17171. jayackroyd - 10/24/2005 5:29:13 PM Ralph's letter
Good job, wonk. 17172. jayackroyd - 10/24/2005 5:30:38 PM It scarcely makes its way into American English. I had to read it three times before I understood the double entendre. 17173. judithathome - 10/24/2005 6:33:14 PM Ah....now it's funny. 17174. Max Macks - 10/24/2005 6:49:37 PM lurk 17175. jayackroyd - 10/24/2005 7:10:55 PM yeah, I was trying to get the tea and oranges thing to make sense, but it wasn't the tea and oranges that were being jerked, um, around there. 17176. thoughtful - 10/24/2005 7:49:22 PM oh I get it...a little slow, but also unfamiliar with that little phrase.
Like the time after a large restaurant dinner with a brit friend of ours I declared, "I'm stuffed." and he looked appalled. Heck, how did I know what i was saying.
I mean this is the country where they advertise pasties all over the place. 17177. thoughtful - 10/24/2005 7:49:54 PM little did i know about fanny packs either.
17178. jayackroyd - 10/24/2005 8:01:14 PM I think I've been a little too oblique. Folks, please note that wonkers letter to the editor to the NYTimes did indeed run today, and is linked in 17171. My congratulations. 17179. PelleNilsson - 10/24/2005 8:09:59 PM I still don't understand it.
Btw, Ralph is a variation of the fine traditional Norse name Rolf. It was a Rolf who colonized Normandie.
On renewed reflection, maybe I do understand, but I'm too shy to ask. 17180. Magoseph - 10/24/2005 8:17:40 PM I still don't understand it
I didn't, but luckily I have a friend in Fort Worth. Even though, it took a while before I got it.
Wonks, congrats on your fine article. 17181. Ms. No - 10/24/2005 8:46:16 PM For the timid:
pull you off = jerk you off
My work here is done.
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