> About 10 years ago our company hired a non-English-speaking artist from
> Germany. Apart from being constantly high, our art department also had a
> (mean?) humorous streak. They taught him a very interesting form of
> English - and colourful. Instead of saying "wow, excellent!", they
> convinced him that the correct thing to say was "most spannerlike!", and
> that a correct form of greeting was "Hello Sailor!". There were many more
> interesting variations, and his English was eventually, suffice it to say,
> unusual :) Of course, he could swear like a trooper.
> A
I'm reminded of the Monty Python sketch. "My hovercraft is full of eels"
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Jim Strickland
jim_at_DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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