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Ok everyone....share a story here. LOL
louisev:
the one that occurs to me most immediately is recently a tourist was wandering around Rosslyn Station, and buttonholed me at the corner of Wilson and North Lynn (the street signs are massive here), and asked me, while standing under the sign, "Where is North Lynn Avenue?"
serious crayons:
Sometimes otherwise educated and intelligent people reveal shocking little pockets of ignorance. This one might lose a little in translation for non-Americans, but here goes:
I grew up in Minnesota. A high school friend said to me, "It's too bad Minnesota isn't on a Great Lake."
I said, "It is. It's on Lake Superior. You know -- where Duluth is?"
She said, "Well, I've never been to Duluth."
(Um, OK, but have you ever looked at a map of your state?)
Here's another: A writer in his late 20s asked me whether Mark Twain had written "Huckleberry Finn," or Huckleberry Finn had written "Mark Twain."
louisev:
Lost in Translation:
As a gluten-intolerant person, I have gravitated toward Indian cuisine which is based heavily on rice, lentils, nuts and seeds, all of which I can eat. Recently I was trying to recreate a recipe for Dosa mix (snack pancake) and the ingredients said "ground nuts" - so I asked my colleague " In the ingredients it says 'ground nuts' - what kind of nuts are they?" And she said "Ground nuts." And I said " Yes I know, but what KIND of ground nuts?"
"Ground nuts" - ground up OR whole, is the colloquial term in Indian for peanuts. D'oh!
southendmd:
Lost in translation, part deux:
When a friend, whose native language is not English, was visiting my family's seaside cottage, was asked how his shower was, knowing the plumbing could be a little wonky, he replied, "Just crane".
"Hunh," I replied.
"It was fine, just crane."
Turns out, "Crane" was the manufacturer of the shower regulator, and "Crane" was between "hot" and "cold".
CellarDweller:
Well, I have to put one of my own here, because it was just so funny. Even now I laugh and can't believe how stupid I was.
:laugh:
When I went to visit Rich and Gene, Rich and I were picking on each other, as usual. I was calling him "country mouse", he called me "city mouse" and so on.
Anyway, the three of us were driving somewhere and there were a bunch of cows on a the side of a large hill, eating the grass.....his is the conversation that took place:
Rich: Yo, little bro....see those cows over there?
Me: yeah.
Rich: Those are mountain cows.
Me: Huh?
Rich: Yeah, they're specially bred with legs on one side shorter than the other, so they can stand on the side of the hill or mountain and eat the grass.
Me: *pause, cock head to the side* Ummmm....ok, but when they turn around, don't they fall over?
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As it was coming out of my mouth, I was saying "STOP" inside my head, but not loud enough apparently.
The three of us burst out into laughter, Gene turned around to say:
"Chuck, I could see the gears turning in your head for that."
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