tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post2502576839247903565..comments2023-10-31T15:39:09.651+01:00Comments on box elder: Coming soon... and a joke.Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-43537836735949153772009-09-07T10:16:44.068+02:002009-09-07T10:16:44.068+02:00Hideously, I feel, I laughed aloud at the poor def...Hideously, I feel, I laughed aloud at the poor deflated balloons. Then I thought about the strange fact that most of our egos could stand a bit of let down! which, somehow is even funnier!Meggiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13074676856646898900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-78943508219760641082009-09-05T18:22:11.204+02:002009-09-05T18:22:11.204+02:00Only read a little bit of Graham Greene? For shame...Only read a little bit of Graham Greene? For shame. Try one of his shortest and funniest (and possibly his obscurest): Loser Takes All.<br /><br />Joky anecdote. We were returning from a holiday Yugoslavia in 1965 and had saved bags of spondulicks which we decided to blow on a meal out in Paris (<em>La Chaumière</em> in Les Halles, since you ask; both now alas a distant memory.) Prior to this my brother decided he needed a haircut. The hairdresser said he needed a shampoo first and arranged his head leaning backwards over the sink with a curious board arrangement to conduct the water away. The board worked imperfectly and when my brother stood up there was huge arc of dampness below the collar of his mohair suit jacket. This caused him to become quite cranky. Oblivious, the hairdresser said: "And now monsieur you look like a new man." My brother surveyed himself in the mirror, "Aye, a bluddy Frenchman." No tip.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-18614280344017220042009-09-05T14:02:21.779+02:002009-09-05T14:02:21.779+02:00Thank you all for your forbearance.
It has occurr...Thank you all for your forbearance.<br /><br />It has occurred to me to make a study of how much English humour is based on the subversion and manipulation of phrasal verbs, and to wonder to what extent this humour works with non-native speakers of English...<br /><br />I will make the gin in a large spring clip jar; I might drink it in the bathtub. Fast gin is tempting, but the more time you leave it to macerate the better.<br /><br />I confess I have read very little Graham Greene, and have only seen the film of The Quiet American, which I enjoyed; Michael Cain was very good, I thought. I refer to our QA as such because otherwise he has the same initial letter as another friend, and it describes him quite well. <br /><br />However, though he intrigued Rosie on one occasion by speaking rather darkly of how he'd lived and worked in far-flung locations on 'American Government business...', and though he was working behind the scenes in Vietnam at one time in a non-military capacity, his actual work was in aid and development, and he probably wouldn't care for the epithet, as he dislikes the Agency with feeling, since, he says, they intruded on, compromised and endangered his people. <br /><br />As far as I know he doesn't read here.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-40795917250252811842009-09-05T08:07:13.990+02:002009-09-05T08:07:13.990+02:00The joke made me groan. Nice one for a Saturday mo...The joke made me groan. Nice one for a Saturday morning (for that is when I am reading). The wine and cherry tomatoes sound divine.PurestGreenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10860331983741242940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-46733984119834370122009-09-05T05:08:44.071+02:002009-09-05T05:08:44.071+02:00HA! Good joke, Lucy.
:)HA! Good joke, Lucy.<br /><br />:)The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04846997590157958766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-32373108771669306372009-09-05T03:03:09.483+02:002009-09-05T03:03:09.483+02:00Why doesn't anyone ever think of making fast g...Why doesn't anyone ever think of making fast gin?Rouchswalwehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01393987883437907945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-27855749569270036292009-09-05T01:09:13.846+02:002009-09-05T01:09:13.846+02:00Ha.
Have you read The Quiet American? It's ...Ha. <br /><br />Have you read The Quiet American? It's quite good. <br /><br />Are you going to make gin in your bathtub?Zhoenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03515663141425057088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-81610314305014357852009-09-05T00:36:36.895+02:002009-09-05T00:36:36.895+02:00Ha ha ha..Ha ha ha..HLizahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04501423875033391870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-43743654888931482992009-09-04T23:32:26.159+02:002009-09-04T23:32:26.159+02:00Cute :)
I've been wanting to say, I love your ...Cute :)<br />I've been wanting to say, I love your photos this week! And this one is no exception. I look forward to visions of sloe gin...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.com