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Good stuff!
I wish I could remember some examples of Japanese English, too. They love to make up slogans to write on clothing, shopping bags etc., regardless their meaning (or lack of meaning).
I used to work with a Japanese girl who used to wear a coat bearing the words "We are brave, because you need, for her great battler".
She seemed quite proud of it........
Ba.A / Mid. B 1972 - 1978
Thee's got'n where thee cassn't back'n, hassn't?
Thee's got'n where thee cassn't back'n, hassn't?
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There is plenty of humour sprinkled throughout the book. One lecturer was known for his Spoonerisms and faux pas. One time, being given the honour of kicking the first ball of the football season, he said the compulsory prayer and made a short speech to the cassocked spectators. Saying how privileged he felt, he continued, "I would be happy to kick all your balls off, whenever you want." The author comments: "It wouldn't have mattered. We didn't need them." http://www.sof-in-australia.org/thepriestfactory.htmScone Lover wrote:That reminds me of the joker who stole a council "No Ball Games Allowed" poster and stuck it to the back gate of a monastery!
Chris Geraghty, the author of, and a teacher at "The Priest Factory" later learned to use them to good effect (I assume) and also likes a tinnie or ten.
What happens if a politician drowns in a river? That is pollution.
What happens if all of them drown? That is solution!!!
What happens if all of them drown? That is solution!!!
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they truly were ........Scone Lover wrote:Are you kidding? The amount of self abuse lectures we got in Catholic school before I went to CH. Man the way they went on, they must have been experts on the subject.
......... the [catholic] church was an old hag, without make-up, thin, dry hair, drab clothes, without jewels. She was a wrinkled spinster intent on preserving her virtue, with thin, pursed lips and full of suspicion... Our church in Australia was still wearing her chastity belt, long after the barbarians had lost interest.
http://www.sof-in-australia.org/thepriestfactory.htm
and that from a teacher of Catholic priests!
What happens if a politician drowns in a river? That is pollution.
What happens if all of them drown? That is solution!!!
What happens if all of them drown? That is solution!!!
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