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I keep reading the strangeness in pennines thread as "strangeness in pennies". And I have hit the link at least twice now wandering what was so strange about the pennies (after having read the pennines thread). 
siriuss said:
I keep reading the strangeness in pennines thread as "strangeness in pennies". And I have hit the link at least twice now wandering what was so strange about the pennies (after having read the pennines thread).
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And speaking of dear Mr Al Fayed, I've read that, like all of us when speaking a foreign language, emotion and tongue-ties get the better of him. Berating an underling at his department store, the Egyptian grocer is reputed to have screamed:
"You f****** donkey. Stupid donk. Donkey donk F***"
How can a native speaker of English possibly top that for an insult?
Way to go, Mo.
"You f****** donkey. Stupid donk. Donkey donk F***"
How can a native speaker of English possibly top that for an insult?
Way to go, Mo.
So, in that case, how did it "discover" it? It just woke up one morning and realised "Hey, I've got a nuclear fusion rocket in my gullet! That would explain the heartburn"? I think not. (It has been a Well Known Fact for some years now that dragons run on fusion power. It had previously been thought they might use fission, but this would require them to eat a large quantity of Uranium and Plutonium. Their staple diet seems to rule this possibility out, as most Beautiful Princesses and Courageous Knights are somewhat deficient in these essential minerals.)
Still, it's better than a Jazz Fusion rocket. There have been some problems in getting enough kinetic energy out of it to be any use.
Still, it's better than a Jazz Fusion rocket. There have been some problems in getting enough kinetic energy out of it to be any use.
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Misread...
Strolling past the shops yesterday on my way to get a newspaper, my bleary Sunday-morning gaze happen to fall on one of those newspaper boards with the headline written in black marker pen. "OAP FOR MUGGING VICTIM", it said, and I wondered why he/she would want the responsibility of looking after an old person just after they'd suffered such a traumatic experience, until my brain ran it past me again and I realised it actually read "OP FOR MUGGING VICTIM"...
Strolling past the shops yesterday on my way to get a newspaper, my bleary Sunday-morning gaze happen to fall on one of those newspaper boards with the headline written in black marker pen. "OAP FOR MUGGING VICTIM", it said, and I wondered why he/she would want the responsibility of looking after an old person just after they'd suffered such a traumatic experience, until my brain ran it past me again and I realised it actually read "OP FOR MUGGING VICTIM"...
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I mishear things more often then I misread them. One I still get teased about to this day was when my sister and a friend were talking about bad pick up lines. One of them said her favorite was "nice shoes, want to f***" I SOMEHOW heard it as "Where's my shoes, motherf***er". I sat there quietly trying to figure it out how that one worked, until I finally had to ask. They couldn't stop laughing at me for a good half an hour.
