Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Listening In

Overheard at the shop at Old Trafford yesterday: You've got shinpads.

But dad, these are Manchester United shinpads!

Off to Paris later today. Wonder what kind of talk we'll be hearing there.

2 comments:

Trebuchet said...

It'll all be in French, unfortunately. *grin*

It reminds me of my English cousin-in-law. He looked around the ballroom at a local wedding and said, "I must be the only ang moh here."

I pointed out that cousin Berndt was also around.

The Englishman responded, "Good Lord! He's a German!"

The tone of voice was priceless.

Brian Connor said...

No Germans (that we noticed, anyway) here so far. But plenty of just about everybody else. One of the things that makes Paris so great.