Comments on: I gotta give them an A for effort

By: Droll not Troll

Droll not Troll — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:17:40 +0000

Our immigration policy is far too complex for the average person to understand, but there must be some kind of quota there. The population is less than 22 million, so while it may seem we have lots of room, the infrastructure to provide suitable living standards for a large influx of people isn’t there. Nor is the water, which is why most prospective immigrants wouldn’t be able to live in most of the country.
There are people who say that Australia is already overpopulated, and I think they may have a point.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:17:22 +0000

So what prevents them? Do you guys have some sort of immigration quota or something?

By: Meowth

Meowth — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:03:22 +0000

Ah, a flotation device, as well!

By: Meowth

Meowth — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:02:48 +0000

You should reverse it a year and go back to the future.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:45:13 +0000

Yes, actually I did know that, although I’d be reluctant to call any English-speaking person a “boor,” at least to their face.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:41:46 +0000

I have changed, so if that was me, it wasn’t me.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:47:13 +0000

So if I hire you as my wedding planner, do you throw in an all-expense-paid tour of 1986 as well? I think I’ve got a Members Only jacket around somewhere…

By: lexan D

lexan D — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:39:56 +0000

Why yes of course, especially when swimming around teh intertubes.

By: Meowth

Meowth — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:29:06 +0000

Goggle? Did you wear it while swimming?

By: Meowth

Meowth — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:27:36 +0000

Don’t forget the pineapple!

By: Meowth

Meowth — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:24:37 +0000

What, did you think I would ride around on a weak flesh-donkey?

By: Meowth

Meowth — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:21:49 +0000

I was channeling Bender from Futurama.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:20:25 +0000

Just when you think you’ve got it figured out, it changes. Kind of like life.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:17:45 +0000

Mostly wedding receptions.

By: la conejita

la conejita — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:17:14 +0000

If you hire me as your wedding planner, I will make sure to have Curry Egg Horse Shoe Crap on the menu along with something else containing Herpes.

For your second Honey Moon, I will send you off to Asia where you will be able to experience Engrish in the real world.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:58:33 +0000

Thanks. Our celebration was rather dampened this year, since my wife’s cousin’s husband passed away two days before, and we were rather close with them.

By: lexan D

lexan D — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:28:26 +0000

Twenty-three years is very good.
Happy Twenty-third Anniversary!

By: JohnB

JohnB — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:19:40 +0000

Yeah, if we make it two more years, and I’m still involved with you all, I will definitely send an open invitation to the party. I would love the Engrish signs, and my wife, who does actually have a good sense of humor (she’s have to, to be married to me!), but is essentially computer illiterate, would probably like them too. But hey, when people look at me like I’m crazy, I write it off as a compliment.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:16:01 +0000

Yes, that very thought had occurred to me years ago, that if I ever did attempt to cheat on my wife during a blackout I probably didn’t get very far anyway.

By: la conejita

la conejita — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:06:05 +0000

Hey in two more years you’ll be celebrating your 25th Anniversary! Don’t forget to send an invitation.

I will show up with Engrish signs and people will look at me like I am crazy.

By: la conejita

la conejita — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:04:31 +0000

If you can’t remember doing it with other women while you were drunk. Chances are that you were so drunk and wouldn’t have met the requirements for having secks.

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:57:25 +0000

Meowth, aka Robocat?

By: Droll not Troll

Droll not Troll — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:34:58 +0000

You’d be surprised how many of them want to live in Australia.

By: Droll not Troll

Droll not Troll — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:30:16 +0000

All that licking ought to keep anything shiny!

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:50:53 +0000

No idea, but I’ll bet they’re fed up about being called Australian!

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:48:48 +0000

Thanks for the compliment!

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:47:41 +0000

Like you’re all welcome to call me British or Scotish, but if you call me English I will reach down my broadband, pull your arms off, and then beat you to death with the wet ends!

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:45:53 +0000

Boer is of Dutch origin, is pronounced “boor”, and translates into English as “farmer”. Also, if you call a white South African (particularly a male) a boer, they will think it’s a compliment, whether it is or not.

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:44:00 +0000

No mate, that’s Australians.

By: bluejade

bluejade — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:35:36 +0000

Yikes. You better start talking, like, yesterday. And get her outdoors as much as possible… it is tough to raise kids when the culture is so good at programming.

By: bluejade

bluejade — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:29:03 +0000

Kiwis are brown, furry, and tart when they’re not ripe.

Canadians are like merkins only more smug because they have health care and they’re not merkins.

By: bluejade

bluejade — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:25:08 +0000

My, you’ve changed! Still don’t think it was you, though!

By: lexan D

lexan D — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:25:27 +0000

lol. no.
And what kind of reception do you get with those?

By: lexan D

lexan D — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:20:51 +0000

You will be missed.
Since you gave proper notice, la conejita hopefully won’t put anything bad about you into your record.

By: lexan D

lexan D — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:14:19 +0000

You are a cat with a shiny metal ass?

By: dr handle

dr handle — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:17:02 +0000

Now who has the New Zealander accent?

By: dr handle

dr handle — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:16:05 +0000

Kiwis also say “eh” a lot, although it comes out more “ey”. So now all I have to do is learn to tell the difference between Kiwis and Canadians…

By: JohnB

JohnB — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:46:02 +0000

I shall be on the road a good portion of the day tomorrow, so I won’t be here in the morning.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:44:40 +0000

I really try to avoid talking to bores.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:41:41 +0000

I have, as I have mentioned many times previously, never cheated on my wife of 23 years, although the first couple of years of our marriage are kind of hazy because I was still an active alcoholic. So I can’t definitively rule out what might have happened in those days, but that does seem rather long as a gestation period.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:38:28 +0000

Yeah, that was a TV show that I actually watched when it was broadcast. I could sing the theme song fairly well, actually. I’m not sure of the dates, but I’m guessing ’61-’63? Dobie, a college student, had a beatnik friend named Maynard G. Krebs who showed a tic in which he would bleat, “Work!” any time someone mentioned the word. The title, I believe, was, “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.” And I swear all this is just from memory and I haven’t googled it, although now I will, just to see how closely I have the dates pegged. TV was certainly a very different medium in those days, for you folks who missed it. Lucy Ball went through an entire pregnancy and gave birth to Ricky Jr. without anyone once mentioning the word, “pregnant.” They never showed two people in the same bed on TV, and never showed a dead body, let alone the grisly forensic stuff they show now that, even though I’m fairly desensitized to the stuff, can still ruin my dinner. Now, my 10-year-old daughter watches, “Law and Order: SVU” with me, in which sex crimes are described in graphic detail, and gets annoyed if I tell her she shouldn’t watch it. She’s a fan of the rock band Hinder, and let me tell you, it’s an odd experience to hear my daughter, just beginning to show signs of puberty, singing along spirtedly in my truck to the CD, “Let’s go home, and get stoned, ’cause the secks is so much better when you’re mad at me.”

By: la conejita

la conejita — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:25:37 +0000

Ok John, now that we know you are a dinosaur, I am going to check you off the list of possible fathers for Dr Handle’s baby.

By: la conejita

la conejita — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:23:36 +0000

I thought you were dud.

By: la conejita

la conejita — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:22:35 +0000

Americans will always assume that Spanish speakers are all from Mexico. There’s quite a few Central and South Americans here. They get offended if they are called Mexicans.
I don’t think that it’s because it’s offensive to be called a Mexican, but because in a way, they are loosing their identity by being lumped into a group they don’t belong to.

By: la conejita

la conejita — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:50:24 +0000

Is that a mysterious smile I see? Or a chuckle?

By: JohnB

JohnB — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:14:43 +0000

Well, my first wife and I didn’t talk for years.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:13:20 +0000

*embarassed smile* I guess I was seen at the Hung Manshop…

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:12:35 +0000

I can’t think why; you talk completely differently to Boers.

By: blueJade

blueJade — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:09:53 +0000

I have distinct memories of a marriage to someone, but I am sure it wasn’t you. We don’t talk, remember?? So it can’t be you.

By: blueJade

blueJade — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:03:30 +0000

This man must be hung…? Where is this data coming from?