“the world’s mine oyster“
… but I don’t think there’s been an “R” in a month for a while.
note: wearing a pearl necklace is basically the same as wearing a kidney stone necklace.
double note: pearls are irritating.
triple note: I’m still not sure if it’s the oysters that are an aphrodisiac … or the tequila shots that go with them.
quadruple note: quote from “The Merry Wives of Windsor/Act II Scene 2 by someone called William Shakespeare.
quintuple note: the photo has nothing to do with anything … unless you’re a conspiracy theorist … then I’m sure you’ll find some connection.
8 responses so far ↓
Dennis the Vizsla // July 12, 2009 at 5:15 pm |
“Shakespeare”, eh? He must have named himself after the famous English band “Shakespears Sister”, although he spelled it wrong.
Donald Diddams // July 12, 2009 at 5:48 pm |
But September is coming, sooner than you think! And here you are trying to throw us off with that picture of the sinister swan boats sneaking up …
Doraz // July 12, 2009 at 6:10 pm |
“pearls are irritating.”
How can you say that?
I love all of my jewelry in pearls!
Finicky Penguin // July 13, 2009 at 5:32 am |
First off, why are you wearing pearls?
Secondly, I forget what I was going to say secondly.
Thirdly, I never had a third thing prepared to say.
Fourthly, why did I just copy what you did in the actual post?
Fifthly… I’m stopping.
Tony // July 13, 2009 at 9:04 am |
What on earth are you talking about man???
We R in June at the moment.
Come on get with it Ross, you’re responsible for educating Japan’s children. What if they take notice of you and leave R out of all the months then the next generation of Japanese people will have a funny accent….
Hang on a minute…
Did you happen to teach previous generations of Japanese children by any chance???
I bet there are CIA agents inside those swans, I smell a conspiracy…
planetross // July 14, 2009 at 12:04 am |
Thanks for all the comments.
Dennis the Vizsla: I thought I better spell that one out; people probably get stuff like that confusedly mixed up all the time.
Donald Diddams: it was all about the “alliteration”angle! well done … I never thought anyone would catch that one! hee hee!
I’ll have to go with an “illiteration” clue next time. double hee hee!
Doraz: only irritating for the oysters … maybe.
If you had pearl teeth, would everything you rub against them feel like pearls?
Finicky Penguin: I carry my “pearls of wisdom” with me everywhere … maybe they are just “pueriles of wisdom” … and that’s just silly.
Tony: you better flip over another page on the calendar possibly.
A lot of people get food poisoning in July over here for some reason.
My favourite “R/L” confusion is “pirate/pilot“: not many Japanese can differentiate those two. I hope Johnny Depp doesn’t do a movie where he’s a pilot because then I’m going to have to come up with another way of explaining the difference.
I eat twice as many oysters in February … because … I forget the reason now.
Tony // July 17, 2009 at 8:32 am |
Oh it is July too
Silly me
I saw an old 1940’s wartime movie where this woman fell in love with a Japanese man. There was a scene where she was trying to apologise for something & she said “Sorry is the hardest word in the English language” The Japanese bloke replied ‘Sorry not the hardest word in Engrish, rorrypop is”
planetross // July 17, 2009 at 4:22 pm |
Tony: you just made that up!
I think the hardest word to spell for a lot of Japanese people is “volleyball” … too many “v”’s, “b”’s, and “l”’s. It ends up looking like “borreyvarr” or something written in Afrikaans.
note: if I’m being racist, I haven’t meant to be.
I always seem to say ‘I’m going to the hospital when I’m just going to get a haircut‘ and sometimes I tend to ‘ride over chopsticks instead of bridges‘ and usually say ‘it’s a really candy day instead of a rainy day’ or ‘there are many spiders in the sky when it should be clouds’.
Language is misunderstood; it needs a translator or something.