The English Language, and Variations Thereof

I paid a visit to The Home Depot this evening to pick up some material for a project. While in the electrical aisle, I saw a foreign-born fellow asking an employee for assistance. The customer seemed quite frustrated and irate as he screamed at the employee what sounded like: "SLICED HAM and PIG, SLICED HAM and PIG!!!"

The employee told the man quite aplologetically that he did'nt understand him. The customer left only to return a short while later holding two objects, one in each hand. He showed them to the employee and berated the poor guy in a foreign language.

It turned out that when the customer was saying: SLICED HAM and PIG,

what he was trying to say was: SLEDGE HAMMER and PICK !

I've seen people berate non english speaking people on larger multi national forums for butchering the English language and frankly I have found them to be idiots themselves. Learning a second language is no easy task. On the other hand anyone who doesn't speak English natively should certainly not expect everyone to understand them.

Tis the season for up tight and moody, relax, don't worry be happy!

Use Matthaus' therapy, surround yourself with 8-10 coal stoves, many tons of coal, and have fun all day!!

greg L

lol , where you get those smiley things ?

Matthaus wrote:

I just added to my Adblock list.

ken wrote:lol , where you get those smiley things ?

Click the view more smilies link under the smilies.

Guess I'll have to whip up some code and htaccess file to randomly generate folder names. --------------> <------------should be a smiling devil here....

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You can disable them among other things in the user control panel,