Oddities and Humor

We don't come to Canada for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves."
- and they call him a 'Prince' Philip

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@Ceili,

I take it then, you're not a fan of the royal family. Shocked

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www.huffingtonpost.com
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A New Zealand truck driver said he blew up like a balloon when he fell onto the fitting of a compressed air hose that pierced his buttock and forced air into his body at 100 pounds a square inch. Steven McCormack was standing on his truck's foot plate Saturday when he slipp..

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@edgarblythe,

"McCormack, 48, said his skin felt "like a pork roast" – crackling on the outside but soft underneath"

yowza...

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@edgarblythe,

That's an excellent site.

I liked this story.
'Rob Woodall Won't Give Up Government Health Care 'Because It's Free'

Typical hypocrisy.

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@Setanta,

Setanta wrote:

When Kennedy stood up in front of thousands of citizens of Berlin, and tried to say in German, I am a Berliner, but in his ignorance said I am a puff pastry--the people roared and cheered because they knew what he meant. The Saxon is too absorbed with the comtemplation of his own (alleged) excellence to understand things like that.

JFK: 'I Am a Jelly Donut' ('Ich bin ein Berliner')

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This is truly The Gaffe That Never Was, notwithstanding reports to the contrary in venues as prestigious as the New York Times and Newsweek magazine. Experts say Kennedy's grammar was flawless when he uttered those words in German near the Berlin Wall on June 26, 1963. The phrase had been translated for him by a professional interpreter.

It is true that the German word Berliner can denote either a person who is a citizen of Berlin, or a particular kind of jelly-filled pastry. But look at it this way: if I were to tell a group of Americans that my editor is a New Yorker, would any of them really think I've confused him with a certain weekly magazine of the same name?

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@DrewDad,

Robert Mitchum once said, "Ich bin ein hamburger."

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@edgarblythe,

He also said to his future wife 'Stick with me and you'll be farting through silk.'

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@hingehead,

Ich bin farding tru der zilk.

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@eurocelticyankee,

I've told this before, but I am reminded again -
Many years ago and far away in California, Prince Philip was visiting our medical center, and was taken by the oh so eminent head of our department to visit my lab, at that time a bit of a light in the mist of medicine as a new kind of special lab for certain diseases. I saw them coming down the hall, and quickly went to the ladies room, there to stay for, oh, ten minutes or so. When I came out, Dr. X had no doubt given his little speech and I was free..

Rude of me, looking back. It was a mix of m'irishness and probable dignitary phobia. That was likely '66 or '67. Would I do that now? No, I don't think so. Now I'd be more curious to watch the two in action.

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@edgarblythe,

Oh, lordie.

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@ossobuco,

There goes your Knighthood. Sad

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/8536889/Obama-in-the-UK-Have-you-heard-the-joke-about-the-Queen-the-Pope-and-Nelson-Mandela.html

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@eurocelticyankee,

Well, that would be my Damehood..

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@ossobuco,

No it's still called a Knighthood, then you would be referred to as
"Dame Ossobuco" and a man would be called Sir.
Alas mute point. Smile

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@eurocelticyankee,

I didn't know that..
All's well that ends well, though.

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@ossobuco,

I'll call you Dame, ok. Smile

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@eurocelticyankee,

Sure. There ain't nothin' like one..

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“You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, `My God, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've thought of that! ” -- Dave Barry

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtFyoP8OHlg

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