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Native Tongue

anyone who’s traveled extensively abroad can appreciate this one…

A man decided to visit his brother who was stationed in Germany. He assumed that most Germans would speak English. But he quickly discovered that many people spoke only their native tongue, including the ticket inspector on the train. Read more »

Contributed by dave | Posted in geographic | No Comments »

London Underground

Considering I travel to london on a near weekly basis, I can (unfortunately) relate to this. I had the mp3 of the song for quite a while, but never knew who originally produced it, and now I know.

The London Underground song is by the comedy band Amateur Transplants (Dr. Adam Kay and Dr. Suman Biswas). Hats off, this is brilliant. Check out the video, actually if anyone knows of their own profile on google video or youtube, let me know so i can include their video. or you can check out the video on their site.

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Contributed by dave | Posted in Government, english, video | No Comments »

Sign language gone awry

An Englishman, a Scotsman, and an Irishman are all to give speeches to the Deaf Society. All are keen to make an impression on their audience.

The Englishman goes first and to the surprise of his colleagues starts by rubbing first his chest and then his groin. When he finishes the Scotsman and Irishman ask him what he was doing. Read more »

Contributed by dave | Posted in Irish, english, scottish | No Comments »

Two men in a hot air balloon …

… get blown wildly off course and become lost after drifting into dense fog. After several hours of failing to discover where they are, one of the gentlemen says “I can tell where we are simply by reaching down into the fog!”

He promptly reaches over the edge of the balloon, rummages around and announces “We are currently over Pisa in Italy”. His friend is astonished and asks how he can be so sure, “Well,” says the first gentleman, “I could feel the top of the Leaning Tower!”

Several hours later he reaches Read more »

Contributed by crussell | Posted in english, geographic | No Comments »