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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2014 14:35:53 GMT
A true story.
A friends daughter has married into a Welsh (very Welsh) family. Before she got married she was told that her future husband's father had gone to the chiropractor. She enquired what was wrong - had he hurt his back or something.
Some puzzlement. No, he went every Thursday
Eventually a translator was found.
Turned out he had gone to choir practice!
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Post by scorp on Jan 15, 2014 8:27:26 GMT
I'm pretty sure I'm going to borrow that!
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Post by ARENA on Jan 15, 2014 9:22:06 GMT
You remind me of the Whistler quote.........
Wilde: I wish I'd said that.
Whistler: You will Oscar, given time you will.
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Post by scorp on Jan 16, 2014 8:27:09 GMT
"Your Majesty is like a stream of bat's piss..."
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Post by ARENA on Jan 16, 2014 9:51:34 GMT
............you shine out like a shaft of gold when all around is dark.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2014 9:52:19 GMT
"Your Majesty is like a stream of bat's piss..." I must be getting slow. Can you explain that Scorp in terms I can understand? |
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Post by scorp on Jan 16, 2014 14:52:31 GMT
A quotation from a Monty Python sketch in which Wilde, Whistler, Shaw and co are misquoting one another to the Prince of Wales, so that the supposed originator of the statement is left to explain it away - if he can!
Not sure why the Prince is being addressed as 'Your Majesty', but still...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW:
Right. Your Majesty is like a dose of clap.
(gasps)
THE PRINCE OF WALES:
What?!?
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW:
Before you arrive is pleasure, but after is a pain in the dong.
THE PRINCE OF WALES:
I beg your pardon?
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW:
It was one of Wilde's.
OSCAR WILDE:
Wha-
THE PRINCE OF WALES:
Well, Mr. Wilde?
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW:
Come on, Ozzy.
OSCAR WILDE:
Uh ..... uh, wha-, wha- .....
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW:
Come on, Ozzy, now, tell us all about it.
OSCAR WILDE:
Wha-, what I meant, Your Majesty, uh-h-h .....
(general heckling from the crowd)
JAMES McNEILL WHISTLER:
Let's have a bit of the old wit then!
OSCAR WILDE:
What, what-
THE PRINCE OF WALES:
I'm waiting.
OSCAR WILDE:
What I-, what I meant was .....
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW:
Come on, Ozzy, .....
JAMES McNEILL WHISTLER:
Give us a bit of the wit, Oz.
OSCAR WILDE:
Um, w-w-what I meant, Your Majesty, w-was ..... oh ..... (blows a raspberry)
(The Prince shakes Wilde's hand. Laughter all round.)
THE PRINCE OF WALES:
Oh! Excellent! Excellent, Wilde! Very witty, Wilde.
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Post by cobden28 on Jan 17, 2014 16:51:05 GMT
The only Welsh joke, if you can call it thus, is actually a true story. Thirty years ago one of my then colleagues was a young Welsh lad whose first language was English, but who also spoke fluent Welsh as well.
Alex lived and worked in England but his Mum and Dad lived in Aberystwyth, and on one occasion when Alex was visiting his parents, he got o n a local bus and bought his ticket which he asked for in English. One of the other passengers on the bus, hearing this English voice buying a ticket, said something on the lines of 'bloody English!' but in Welsh of course, to the person sitting in the next seat.
I always remember Alex saying how shocked this passenger looked when Alex then spoke to him in perfect Welsh!
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