A plea

[wellinghall]

If anyone would like to enliven my morning at work by commenting here, that would be much appreciated!

ETA: Or sending me a message.

Comments

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

Over on fanficrants someone has just related how she received a comment on her piece of fanfiction from an American, saying, "i saw on you're profile that you don't live in America so i know english isn't you're first language"


Her profile lists her as living in the United Kingdom.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

*beats head repeatedly on desk*

[inzilbeth-liz.livejournal.com]

When, a few years ago, I finally found the nerve to post a piece of my fan fiction, I received a comment from a Californian gal questioning whether English was my first language. Me?? Born and bred in rural Gloucestershire!!

[Sorry, Andrew, I can't think of anything more amusing.]

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

*bangs head again*

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

My divided by a common language internet pet peeve is people who post at comms to ask "Do Brits can a fwargl a fwargl?" As if everyone really spoke American and knew what a fwargl was, but perversely chose to call it something else.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I suspect I'm missing something here.

[inamac.livejournal.com]

A better example would be the question "What do Brits call a 'comforter'" - to which the obvious answer is "Someone who gives comfort", and not, and the questioner needs to know: (a)a child's dummy or (b)a quilt (or possibly duvet - I've never been able to work out exactly what function an American bed comforter performs).

This morning's example of the genre was "What do you guys call a flashlight?"

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I see, thanks.

[el-staplador.livejournal.com]

There was a young curate of Salisbury
Whose manners were quite halisbury-scalisbury:
He wandered round Hampshire
Without any pampshire
Till the bishop compelled him to walisbury.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Excellent!

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Thanks :-)

More pictures of Amy Pond... ;-)

[sally_maria]

Re: More pictures of Amy Pond... ;-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Thank you :-)

[emperor]

Have you encountered NCBI ROFL? They dig up amusing / rude / odd abstract from pubmed.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I hadn't encountered them - thanks!

[gurthaew.livejournal.com]

Um, does working from home all day entitle me to check in here periodically for amusement?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Of course!

[thecatsamuel.livejournal.com]

*passes tea and chocolate biscuits*

I am trying to remember a joke from the panto to tell you as well, but most of them were too rude for me to understand.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

*sips gratefully*

*dunks biscuit*

There must have been one clean one ... (or at least, on eyou can quote verbatim, even if you didn't understand it? ;-) )

[thecatsamuel.livejournal.com]

They've all blurred rather, but if I tell you it was Cinderella and that Buttons spent rather a lot of time telling the audience about Prince Charming's famous balls, you can probably get an idea of the sophistication levels...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Yes ...

[segh.livejournal.com]

Do you know the one about the barmaid from Yale?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

No ...

[segh.livejournal.com]

On the breasts of the barmaid from Yale
Was tattooed the price of the ale,
While on her behind
For the sake of the blind
Was the same information in Braille.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I like it :-)

[tree_and_leaf]

An Anglican curate in want
Of a second-hand portable font
Will exchange for the same
A signed photo (with frame)
Of the Bishop elect of Vermont.

I saw a portable font the other day, actually...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Ah, but was it second-hand?

[tree_and_leaf]

It was in a cathedral treasury, so used but not second-hand, I suppose...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Cathedral treasuries tend to look dimly on offers to buy their wares ...

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

Too many memories of when they were likely to be confiscated!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

True, true.