| વિષયના પાનાઓ: [1 2] > | Off topic: The right recipe for cooking up Heaven દોર પોસ્ટ કરનાર: Natalia Eklund
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Warning: Joke involving national sterotypes below. A sense of humor required! If you have an abhorrence of stereotype style jokes, don't read any further.
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(Got this from a fellow translator)
HEAVEN is where:
- the police are English
- the cooks are French
- the mechanics are German
- the lovers are Italian
And everything is organized by the Sw... See more Warning: Joke involving national sterotypes below. A sense of humor required! If you have an abhorrence of stereotype style jokes, don't read any further.
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(Got this from a fellow translator)
HEAVEN is where:
- the police are English
- the cooks are French
- the mechanics are German
- the lovers are Italian
And everything is organized by the Swiss.
HELL is where:
- the police are German
- the cooks are English
- the mechanics are French
- the lovers are Swiss
And everything is organised by the Italians.
[Don't get riled up, we know stereotypes are not reality! I even like some English food ]
Anyway, I hope it got a good laugh, have a good weekend. ▲ Collapse
| | | | patyjs 
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I, in fact, do fit the stereotype, being English and culinary challenged! I'm married to a Mexican....now, I wonder where they fit in? 
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Spent a few weeks in Jolly Old (mostly London) in the 80s. Almost starved to death until I found out where the Chinese and Indian restaurants were.
[Edited at 2008-09-26 15:12]
| | | | Natalia Eklund
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Local time: 15:16
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વિષયની શરૂઆત કરનાર | interesting idea for a variation | Sep 26, 2008 |
Hi patyjs,
You're right, we should find a variation including others (but only for the Heaven part!)
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Therrien
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Local time: 07:16
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Ouat do you mean ze mécaniques are French?
Juste follow ze golden rule.
Ouen in doubt, duct tape it.
[Edited at 2008-09-26 16:10]
| | | | Giles Watson
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Local time: 15:16
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ઇન મેમોરીયમ
patyjs wrote:
I, in fact, do fit the stereotype, being English and culinary challenged! I'm married to a Mexican....now, I wonder where they fit in?
Perhaps it was a Mexican who saved the day by slipping some chilli into the mince the English cook was boiling to death
| | | | | How about Spanish people? | Sep 26, 2008 |
Aren't we bad enough for a joke like this?
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rofl
This is absolutely brilliant!!!
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JPW (X)
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| Just for you, Tomás... | Sep 26, 2008 |
A prize was to be awarded for the first person to discover a horse with black and white stripes - like a zebra.
A German, A Frenchman, an Englishman and a Spaniard participated hoping to win the prize of 1,000,000 euros.
The German decided to spend weeks in the National library researching into horses with black and white stripes.
The Englishman went straight to a shop in Piccadilly which specialises in hunting gear, bought all the equipment necessary and s... See more A prize was to be awarded for the first person to discover a horse with black and white stripes - like a zebra.
A German, A Frenchman, an Englishman and a Spaniard participated hoping to win the prize of 1,000,000 euros.
The German decided to spend weeks in the National library researching into horses with black and white stripes.
The Englishman went straight to a shop in Piccadilly which specialises in hunting gear, bought all the equipment necessary and set off for Africa in his quest for this strange creature.
The Frenchman bought himself a horse and painted it black and white.
The Spaniard went to the best restaurant he knew in Madrid, ordered an expensive meal for himself with a fine bottle of wine; after the meal he ordered an expensive Havana cigar and a Napoleon brandy, sat in a luxurious arm-chair in the hotel and began to consider what he would do with the 1,000,000 euros once he had found this remarkable horse with black and whte stripes.
Boom! Boom! ▲ Collapse
| | | | | They found me!! | Sep 26, 2008 |
John Paul Weir wrote:
The Spaniard went to the best restaurant he knew in Madrid, ordered an expensive meal for himself with a fine bottle of wine; after the meal he ordered an expensive Havana cigar and a Napoleon brandy, sat in a luxurious arm-chair in the hotel and began to consider what he would do with the 1,000,000 euros once he had found this remarkable horse with black and whte stripes.
Oh my goodness! They finally found me!!!
BTW: The cigar was a bit dry. But I can't complain about the restaurant: the window of the restroom was big enough!
| | | | Agnieszka Hayward (X)
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| Näh..... you got it all wrong, N.M., dear ;-) | Sep 26, 2008 |
To me...:
HEAVEN is where:
- the police are Cuban (provided you are a tourist in Cuba)
- the cooks are me!!! (OK, or my mum) Note both of us are Polish
- the mechanics are... this nice bloke round the corner from where I live (Polish still)
- the lovers are... our husbands now! Yessss ... See more
| | | | Allesklar
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Local time: 00:46
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| French mechanics | Sep 26, 2008 |
Therrien wrote:
Ouat do you mean ze mécaniques are French?
Juste follow ze golden rule.
Ouen in doubt, duct tape it.
A mechanically inclined friend once told me that understanding French cars wasn't that hard - you just have to think about sex all the time while you are working on them
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N.M. Eklund wrote:
And everything is organised by the Italians.
AH! I knew itttt! I knew I was living in Hell! --not so much of a stereotype
I suppose all other countries are just in the Purgatory aisle
and for those who may not know this..:
http://www.infonegocio.com/xeron/bruno/italy.html
[Edited at 2008-09-27 12:56]
| | | | | Italian hell | Sep 27, 2008 |
We have a joke: a sinner goes to hell and Lucifer gives him the choice between the German and the Italian section of hell. First he shows the man the German hell: people are crucified among screams and blood. Then he shows him the Italian hell: there, too, people have been crucified. "That is not a real choice, then" tha man mutters. "Oh yes. if I were you, I would choose the Italian section. One day the nails are gone missing, the next day nobody can find the hammer..."
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unadiluna wrote:
We have a joke: a sinner goes to hell and Lucifer gives him the choice between the German and the Italian section of hell. First he shows the man the German hell: people are crucified among screams and blood. Then he shows him the Italian hell: there, too, people have been crucified. "That is not a real choice, then" tha man mutters. "Oh yes. if I were you, I would choose the Italian section. One day the nails are gone missing, the next day nobody can find the hammer..."
Here in Greece we have the same joke, but instead of the Italian there is the Greek section. And it is soooo true!
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