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Bassman - Funny how people never ceases to amaze me! Posted Dec 27, 2008
Heathrow the airport. I used to work half a mile away.
How could anyone suspect I was a Police Man, with THIS hair? 
Maybe it's because we were speaking in decent English - whole sentences and no dropped T's.... innit!
Bassman 
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Dec 27, 2008
Are there others in your country who speak indecent English? 
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Lighthousegirl - back on board Posted Dec 27, 2008
Many Many people Paul
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Dec 27, 2008
In my country (America), there are many whose English is laughable (or cryable), but we didn't invent the English language, so that's our excuse. The English, being English, determine what the English language is, simply by speaking it....
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Bassman - Funny how people never ceases to amaze me! Posted Dec 28, 2008
The local accent where I now live is truly appalling and their regular term of endearment is even worse - so bad I refuse to even write it down. I loathe it. My old boss used to go out of his way to use it at every opportunity, I'm sure just to wind me up....
At the same place of work, we had a cleaner who was Mongolian. He told me there were only about 4000 words in the whole of their language and had so much trouble with English because there were so many words for the same thing - almost. It was really interesting when he used to come in and ask us the meaning of specific words - which for the same spelling had more than one meaning. That made me think quite hard about the way I use English. Don't know if I was ever any real help!
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Dec 29, 2008
I'm sorry, Bassman, but I am used to looking for the punchlines in what people say, as if the world was one big comedy act. 
I thought you were going to say something like, "We had a cleaner who was Mongolian. He told me there were only about 4000 words in the whole of their language, and 2,000 of them describe different kinds of sand." 
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Bassman - Funny how people never ceases to amaze me! Posted Dec 30, 2008
Funny you should say that.... He said that 2000 of them described H2G2 researchers who always looked for punchlines.... and the other 2000 were the punchlines.
A very jolly race the mongolians - Maybe Ghengis Khan just didn't get the joke?
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Dec 30, 2008
I don't think Genghis Khan needs to get any jokes. He has tens of thousands of direct male descendants. Not many historical figures can say that (or would say that if they were still alive).
But I enjoyed your response. 
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Lighthousegirl - back on board Posted Dec 31, 2008
* Pops the 
ready for New Year *
Happy New Year everyone
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Dec 31, 2008
In 2009, may we all escept the wrath of Khan.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Dec 31, 2008
"escept" was supposed to be "escape"
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Mu Beta Posted Jan 3, 2009
GreyDesk appears to be playing darts on BBC1 at the minute.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jan 3, 2009
Is he within range of a dart bearing a message from us? 
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Bassman - Funny how people never ceases to amaze me! Posted Jan 5, 2009
Does that mean Ghengis Khan was as prolific as Gene Simmonds?
Bassman
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jan 5, 2009
Probably more.
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Jan 5, 2009
If you Khan beat 'em, join 'em.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jan 6, 2009
What if the Khan you're dealing with is a Khan artist?
Or is overkhanfident?
Or is full of Chili Khan Carne?
Or is unrekhanstructed?
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Bassman - Funny how people never ceases to amaze me! Posted Jan 7, 2009
Is that supposed to be a joke.... I Khan't understand it....
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jan 7, 2009
Oh, yes you Khan.
I bet you can even dance the Khankhan.
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