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Offramp
May 28, 2012, 5:24:52 AM5/28/12
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"Last night I was playing over Johannes Zukertort versus Berthold Englisch, London 1883 with a coworker after work. There were these two pretty, but kinda fat girls drinking at the bar and being loud. They had what I could have sworn was an Irish accent. I'm a big fan of girls from the UK, so I struck up a conversation. I asked them, "So... you two ladies are from Ireland?" I could see immediately that I had offended them. The brunette said, "WALES!"
I apologized and said, "I'm sorry. Are you two whales from Ireland?"
I apologized and said, "I'm sorry. Are you two whales from Ireland?"
Taylor Kingston
May 28, 2012, 12:18:26 PM5/28/12
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On May 28, 2:24 am, Offramp <alaneobr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Last night I was playing over Johannes Zukertort versus Berthold Englisch, London 1883 with a coworker after work. There were these two pretty, but kinda fat girls drinking at the bar and being loud. They had what I could have sworn was an Irish accent. I'm a big fan of girls from the UK, so I struck up a conversation. I asked them, "So... you two ladies are from Ireland?" I could see immediately that I had offended them. The brunette said, "WALES!"
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> I apologized and said, "I'm sorry. Are you two whales from Ireland?"
A similar trope was used in the Beatles movie "Yellow Submarine." As
> "Last night I was playing over Johannes Zukertort versus Berthold Englisch, London 1883 with a coworker after work. There were these two pretty, but kinda fat girls drinking at the bar and being loud. They had what I could have sworn was an Irish accent. I'm a big fan of girls from the UK, so I struck up a conversation. I asked them, "So... you two ladies are from Ireland?" I could see immediately that I had offended them. The brunette said, "WALES!"
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> I apologized and said, "I'm sorry. Are you two whales from Ireland?"
I recall, the scene went something like this: Riding in the sub
beneath the surface, Ringo spotted a group of large animals swimming
past. "School of fish," he says. "No, whales," says another Beatle.
"They're too old for school, must be a university," another
wisecracked. "University of Whales," muses Ringo.
Quadibloc
May 29, 2012, 3:33:17 PM5/29/12
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On May 28, 3:24 am, Offramp <alaneobr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I asked them, "So... you two ladies are from Ireland?" I could see immediately that I had offended them. The brunette said, "WALES!"
Clearly, they should have said "Cymru" to prevent your unfortunate
> I asked them, "So... you two ladies are from Ireland?" I could see immediately that I had offended them. The brunette said, "WALES!"
confusion.
John Savard
Detectorist
Jun 11, 2012, 3:55:56 PM6/11/12
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raylopez99
Jun 12, 2012, 12:04:18 PM6/12/12
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On Monday, June 11, 2012 3:55:56 PM UTC-4, Detectorist wrote:
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> Lots of beautiful women in Wales.
That chick that married Michael Douglass and was a Verizon spokeswoman is pretty hot. Kathy Zeta-Jones or something. Google: Catherine Zeta-Jones = Welsh. Is that the same as Whales in England?
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> Lots of beautiful women in Wales.
RL
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