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25 Dec 22 - 05:00 AM (#4160196) Subject: A quick Christmas story! From: GUEST,Nick Dow I was standing in a church with a seven-year-old Gypsy girl while her auntie was chatting with the priest. She was looking at the model of the nativity. I asked 'What did the wise men bring to the baby Jesus?' She looked up at me and said ' I know that! It was Myrrh, Gold and Frankenstein!' Merry Christmas Nick |
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25 Dec 22 - 09:53 AM (#4160208) Subject: RE: A quick Christmas story! From: keberoxu Sung by children at any opportunity: Oh my darling, oh my darling, Oh my darling Frankenstein, You are lost and gone forever, Dreadful sorry, Frankenstein! |
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25 Dec 22 - 11:30 AM (#4160222) Subject: RE: A quick Christmas story! From: GUEST,Nick Dow That explains it!! |
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25 Dec 22 - 04:09 PM (#4160237) Subject: RE: A quick Christmas story! From: Joe Offer Cute story. Merry Christmas, Nick. -Joe- |
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25 Dec 22 - 05:48 PM (#4160243) Subject: RE: A quick Christmas story! From: leeneia Good story, Nick. Thanks. |
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26 Dec 22 - 10:18 AM (#4160308) Subject: RE: A quick Christmas story! From: GUEST,Guest I can't remember where I heard or read it but: Knowledge: Frankenstein was the scientist not the monster. Wisdom: Frankenstein was the monster. |
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26 Dec 22 - 05:05 PM (#4160331) Subject: RE: A quick Christmas story! From: Helen I'll admit it. The first time I heard about frankincense and myrrh I had no idea what it was. It didn't really make much more sense after the explanation because why would the three kings travel so very far and bring gold - yep, I get that - and two kinds of incense? But your story reminds me of someone coming into the library where I worked, asking for a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird, and the very new young library assistant saying she couldn't find it in the old alphabetical catalogue book. I asked her what she was looking for and she said Tequila Mockingbird. |
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26 Dec 22 - 05:22 PM (#4160336) Subject: RE: A quick Christmas story! From: GUEST A teacher had asked her class to draw a picture related to a Christmas Carol. As she walked around the room, studying the works of the children, she stopped at Sallys position and asked her.' I can see Mary and Baby Jesus but who is the big fat man, is that supposed to be Joseph;;?? Sally replied ' No miss that's round John' The teacher said 'I have never heard of round John before' to which Sally replied...'yes you have miss... it' in 'Silent Night'.... 'it's 'round John, virgin, mother and child. Georgiansilver |
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26 Dec 22 - 05:29 PM (#4160338) Subject: RE: A quick Christmas story! From: Helen Yes, another good one Guest! |
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26 Dec 22 - 07:32 PM (#4160348) Subject: RE: A quick Christmas story! From: GUEST,Nick Dow Love it! |
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27 Dec 22 - 06:01 AM (#4160370) Subject: RE: A quick Christmas story! From: Georgiansilver Sorry GUEST above was me. Just reset cookie. |
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31 Dec 22 - 08:40 PM (#4160891) Subject: RE: A quick Christmas story! From: Tattie Bogle My real surname is Santer, yes, really! So back in my working days, in mid-December I phoned into our admin dept to enquire about my next rota. “Hello, this is Dr Santer” sez I. Voice on the other end sez, “Oh yeah, this is Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer “ and puts the phone down on me! |
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01 Jan 23 - 04:47 AM (#4160908) Subject: RE: A quick Christmas story! From: MaJoC the Filk Every year, some fresh wag rings up Jesus College ....
.... and thinks they're the first one ever. |
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02 Jan 23 - 05:17 AM (#4160991) Subject: RE: A quick Christmas story! From: The Sandman I had a chuckle this morning , i listened to a version of the song wqaly walyon irish radio when the radio announcer, called it wally wally |
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02 Jan 23 - 10:16 AM (#4161037) Subject: RE: A quick Christmas story! From: GerryM I had a chuckle this morning, someone posted about a song called wqaly walyon. |
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02 Jan 23 - 11:04 AM (#4161043) Subject: RE: A quick Christmas story! From: The Sandman I had a chuckle this morning , i listened to a version of the song, waly waly on irish radio the radio announcer, called it wally wally |
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02 Jan 23 - 01:21 PM (#4161051) Subject: RE: A quick Christmas story! From: Helen Thanks Dick, your wally wally story reminds me of a couple of pronunciations of Australian words or place names, often but not always on US TV shows. A story about an ee'-moo i.e. emu in America which escaped from its enclosure. It's pronounced ee'myou not ee'-moo. A fictional town in Oz called Woop Woop, which was pronounced on a TV show rhyming with loop instead of rhyming with the double o in look. "Woop Woop is used to refer to a place in the middle of nowhere. People use it to signify that a location is far away, unfamiliar to them, and difficult to get to." There are a lot of place names in Oz which are from First Nations languages, and the pronunciations can be quite funny, if someone does not know the local pronunciation. Wagga Wagga is pronounced Wogga Wogga - don't ask me why, I don't know. Wee Waa is pronounced Wee War, and there is a specific emphasis on the syllables in the longer names which can sound funny when the emphasis is misplaced. On the other hand, it's interesting that people from Melbourne, Vic pronounce the place called Castlemaine as Cass'ellmaine, and tend to refer to where I live i.e. Newcastle as Newcass'le instead of pronouncing it New'carsle. That might hark back to the way the UK people pronounce it, I guess. Note: the ' denotes the syllable which is emphasised in the pronunciation. |
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02 Jan 23 - 01:33 PM (#4161055) Subject: RE: A quick Christmas story! From: Dave the Gnome The round John story reminded me of the little lad that thought there was "a monk swimmin'" in the Hail Mary :-D |
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02 Jan 23 - 01:33 PM (#4161056) Subject: RE: A quick Christmas story! From: GUEST,Oriel Newcarssle if you are posh/a southerner. Newcassle like hassle - northerner. Nyuhcassle - you come from Nyuhcassle or work with someone who does! (Apologies to any Geordies - I don't know how to spell it phonetically!) |
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02 Jan 23 - 01:42 PM (#4161057) Subject: RE: A quick Christmas story! From: Helen Oh yes, Oriel, I forgot to say Nyew'carssle in Australian, not Noo'carssle. LOL |
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02 Jan 23 - 04:58 PM (#4161086) Subject: RE: A quick Christmas story! From: GerryM John Dengate related that his father had thrown his shoe at the TV after an (Australian) announcer had pronounced Tibooburra as tiBOOBra (the correct pronunciation being closer to TI-buh-buh-ruh (accent on the 1st syllable, not the 2nd, and no "boobs" anywhere in sight). |
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02 Jan 23 - 05:19 PM (#4161091) Subject: RE: A quick Christmas story! From: Helen GerryM, I'm trying to remember which town a young Oz TV presenter mispronounced some time last year. It was funny, but I'll have to look up the list of town and suburbs to remind myself - or it will pop into my head when I'm thinking of something else. There are so many possible ways to pronounce those place names. It's more surprising that most people get it right, I guess. |
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02 Jan 23 - 09:56 PM (#4161112) Subject: RE: A quick Christmas story! From: GerryM Helen, could be Canowindra – very tempting to pronounce it in four syllables, accent on "win", which will bring laughs, or fury, to those who know it's more like k'NOWN-dra. |
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03 Jan 23 - 12:09 AM (#4161118) Subject: RE: A quick Christmas story! From: Helen Canowindra, yes that's a classic! Just looking through the place names in NSW makes me realise how difficult it would be to guess the pronunciation of a lot of the names: Postcodes Australia - NSW - alphabetical lists - A Part of it is knowing where the accented syllable(s) go and part of it is that the spelling doesn't indicate the pronunciation in some cases, e.g. Awaba in the Lake Macquarie area is pronounced UhWOBBuh. It's a bit of a local (Newcastle or mid north coast) joke that Bulahdelah, which is pronounced BULLuhDEEluh, is deliberately mispronounced as BullARdellAR. I could go on, but I won't - until I remember which place the TV presenter mispronounced last year. |
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03 Jan 23 - 03:02 AM (#4161119) Subject: RE: A quick Christmas story! From: Sandra in Sydney My great aunt used to work at Goonoo Goonoo so we've always known it's pronounced Gunna G'noo. (Sounding like something out of the Teletubbies, Goonoo Goonoo is actually an outback station that is 20km south of Tamworth, New South Wales) station = ranch to our northern American readers. How to pronounce Australian place names: Kata Tjuta, Ubirr, Bermagui and more |
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03 Jan 23 - 10:39 AM (#4161154) Subject: RE: A quick Christmas story! From: Tattie Bogle Going back to the strange phone calls: our bedroom phone goes off while we're both asleep, on Christmas Eve/Night. Caller says "Can I speak to Mr Santer" I pass phone to husband. "Can I get a bike for Christmas?" says a youthful voice. Husband plays along - "Only if you're a VERY good boy". Meantime, I look at the clock, and it's 3 bl##dy AM! "No bike unless you get to bed right now!" End of conversation! |
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03 Jan 23 - 01:15 PM (#4161172) Subject: RE: A quick Christmas story! From: Helen 3 AM and your husband has a good sense of humour!!?? He's a keeper! LOL |
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03 Jan 23 - 03:15 PM (#4161184) Subject: RE: A quick Christmas story! From: Helen I just read through all of the postcode locations in NSW, and although I thought the suburb which was mispronounced by the TV presenter, and which caused me to almost ROTFL might have been Eleebana, pronounced ELLeeBARNa but mispronounced as EllEEbarnA, I think it was Kotara, pronounced KotTARa, but she mispronounced it as KOTTarA. I have two thoughts after reading the full list of place names. The first is how lovely it is that so many of our place names are from First Nations languages, and the second thought is that we are sometimes unfortunate victims of the various English language speakers who tried to use English spelling for some of those words. Part of the problem is that different English language speakers had different ideas of how to spell the sounds, and part of it is the complexity of English spelling, e.g. how was Wee Waa pronounced by the original First Nations language speaker and how was it interpreted by the English language speaker, and have we been mispronouncing it for decades? Sorry, this is off topic, I guess, but I find it interesting. |