Got a credit card? use our Credit Card & Finance Calculators
Thanks to eyeball08,Wondergirly,bofh,johnstevens77,Bhoddhisatva, for Donating to support the site
Geek test #3
Forum rules
Material posted here that is disparaging towards any group on the basis of race, faith, nationality, gender, disability or sexual orientation will be deleted and any poster of such material risks suspension.
Material posted here that is disparaging towards any group on the basis of race, faith, nationality, gender, disability or sexual orientation will be deleted and any poster of such material risks suspension.
Geek test #3
An American tourist in Italy is constipated for a week, but when he arrives in Florence, the water is better and his condition goes away. "With Firenze like this," he said, "who needs enemas?"
-
- Lemon Half
- Posts: 7814
- Joined: January 22nd, 2017, 2:29 pm
- Has thanked: 665 times
- Been thanked: 1289 times
Re: Geek test #3
laladonny wrote:Firenze is the Italian word for Florence.
Florence is the English word for Firenze.
-
- Lemon Half
- Posts: 7181
- Joined: November 24th, 2016, 3:29 am
- Has thanked: 1661 times
- Been thanked: 3817 times
Re: Geek test #3
Foreign language-based puns like this can be difficult to make work, as the joke above illustrates!
Here's a simpler one:
I met a depressed Scandinavian the other day. He wished he'd never been Björn.
Here's a simpler one:
I met a depressed Scandinavian the other day. He wished he'd never been Björn.
-
- Lemon Quarter
- Posts: 3485
- Joined: November 5th, 2016, 8:43 am
- Has thanked: 3867 times
- Been thanked: 1418 times
Re: Geek test #3
I still remember the 'English lessons for Swedes' sketch from Not the Nine o'clock news, many years ago.
Should be spoken with a strong Scandinavian accent:
Lesson 10. In the pharmacy
-Allo, I would like to buy a deodorant please.
"Certainly sir. Ball or aerosol?"
-Neither. It's for my armpits.
Steve
Should be spoken with a strong Scandinavian accent:
Lesson 10. In the pharmacy
-Allo, I would like to buy a deodorant please.
"Certainly sir. Ball or aerosol?"
-Neither. It's for my armpits.
Steve
-
- Lemon Half
- Posts: 8379
- Joined: November 8th, 2016, 5:56 am
- Has thanked: 4471 times
- Been thanked: 3601 times
Re: Geek test #3
stevensfo wrote:I still remember the 'English lessons for Swedes' sketch from Not the Nine o'clock news, many years ago.
Should be spoken with a strong Scandinavian accent:
Lesson 10. In the pharmacy
-Allo, I would like to buy a deodorant please.
"Certainly sir. Ball or aerosol?"
-Neither. It's for my armpits.
Steve
I hunted without success for a video of that when discussing the dangers of aerosols around Covid (and how those aerosols don't wear masks when they should)
There are a lot of really good NTNON videos about on the web and I think they've aged really well
- but can't find that one
-sd
-
- Lemon Quarter
- Posts: 3563
- Joined: November 5th, 2016, 10:30 am
- Has thanked: 1 time
- Been thanked: 1184 times
Re: Geek test #3
I Googled Not the Nine o'clock News Swedish chemists shop,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6IBiR9m3vY
https://www.google.com/search?q=not+the ... e&ie=UTF-8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6IBiR9m3vY
https://www.google.com/search?q=not+the ... e&ie=UTF-8
-
- Lemon Half
- Posts: 6050
- Joined: May 30th, 2021, 6:01 pm
- Has thanked: 1843 times
- Been thanked: 2067 times
-
- Lemon Half
- Posts: 8379
- Joined: November 8th, 2016, 5:56 am
- Has thanked: 4471 times
- Been thanked: 3601 times
Re: Geek test #3
kempiejon wrote:I Googled Not the Nine o'clock News Swedish chemists shop,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6IBiR9m3vY
https://www.google.com/search?q=not+the ... e&ie=UTF-8
Ha! I think I thought they were French not Swedish!
Thanks muchly
-
- Lemon Half
- Posts: 8379
- Joined: November 8th, 2016, 5:56 am
- Has thanked: 4471 times
- Been thanked: 3601 times
Re: Geek test #3
pje16 wrote:easy on google
not the 9 o'clock news ball or aerosol
Indeed I see that.
Must have been my typing or condition at the time
-
- Lemon Quarter
- Posts: 3563
- Joined: November 5th, 2016, 10:30 am
- Has thanked: 1 time
- Been thanked: 1184 times
Re: Geek test #3
servodude wrote:
Ha! I think I thought they were French not Swedish!
Thanks muchly
French, that would lead to the confusion
-
- Lemon Quarter
- Posts: 3485
- Joined: November 5th, 2016, 8:43 am
- Has thanked: 3867 times
- Been thanked: 1418 times
Re: Geek test #3
One of my all time favourites of those two is from their 'Alas Smith and Jones'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuOZ7K0pZlI
Sketch start at 5:00
It must have taken a lot of work. Quite incredible how they get get the mannerisms of toddlers so amazingly right!
Steve
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuOZ7K0pZlI
Sketch start at 5:00
It must have taken a lot of work. Quite incredible how they get get the mannerisms of toddlers so amazingly right!
Steve
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 23 guests