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That's worse than I imagined. I'd actually thought she was assuming it
might have been built on top of the seabed, rather than drilled under
it, and just couldn't explain herself.

 

That was her second guess. She asked whether you could see the fishies
through the train window.

 

*speechless*

 

Not in the slightest.

Other gems I've written down include:

"250,000, that's not quarter of a million"
"I didn't know the Romans came from Rome"
"Salmon and lobster aren't seafood, are they?"

 

ginge wrote

Well not really.

Years and years ago I went, in the company of a nymphomaniac, to Jersey
to live for a bit. The 7 seater aeroplane(?) we were travelling on also
had a consignment of day old chicks in the cargo area at the back. When
the plane landed these little creatures all started cheeping furiously.
"Oooo," she said, "I can hear the seagulls, isn't it exciting"

 

Well, she's practically an American, so that's an entirely
understandable reaction.

 

I used to think that "out of the mouths of babes" section in FHM was all
made up.

Not anymore.

 

Presumably you were elsewhere at the time, drinking and enjoying the company
of less-insane people...?

 

The Medway tunnel sits on the river bed.

Aw.
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Recent graduate recruit at work: claimed to not know much history.

I asked a few questions:

"When did Neil Armstrong walk on the moon?

"1985?"

No, you're sixteen years out."

"Oh. 1999?"
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Many moons ago I was asked by a colleague why so many quoted Japanese
companies had "Nippon" in the name.
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Nah, he couldn't have. The moon was far too far away by then.

Ali

 

Don't ever take her via the Oresund crossing between Denmark and Sweden.
She'd never be able to comprehend it.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17199

or take the Airport line from HK Airport into town as it crosses the
Tsing Ma bridge inside an enclosed deck below the road deck. It
resembles a tunnel and thus goes over the water ;-)

http://www.tsingma.com.hk/Web_pages/Intro_tmca/tsing_ma_bridge_e.htm

To be moderately fair to her there are some underwater tunnels that are
built in sections and then immersed into the water rather than bored
through the seabed.

LOL! - absolutely classic stuff that is definitely off the end of the
boggle-o-meter.

 

LOL! - about the overall story not the great wire massacre.

I rather like this description.

 

Not quite the same, but my SO has a habit of getting her words muddled.
Like:
"Every time I talk to her she goes off on a tandem."

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Take out the obvious to email me.

 

Oh, I know - I didn't exactly see the funny side at the time, though.

it's very apt.

 

Champ says...

Eleanor Roosevelt

 

Champ says...

She's the source of a few of my favourite quotes.

 

*nice*

 

That's a 'malapropism' BTW

HTH etc

Chris D