OT:Heard on American Dad: daughter Hayley singing a song about...

[Wilson Gray]

She has my sympathy. I found out that there's a major problem involved
in asking - in English! - for the location of the bathroom, even among
Dutch people who have lived in the States long enough to have earned
American doctorates.

-Wilson

On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Leslie Decker <leslie at familydecker.org> wrote:
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> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> "... tapping that ass."
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>> When I was in Amsterdam, sometimes, Dutch people would complain about
>> the casual use of "God verdoeme!" by Americans. Now, I see their
>> point.
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>> Well, one of the problems there, of course, is that 'godverdomme' is much
> stronger than (for most English-speakers ) 'God dammit.' Most Dutch people
> have told me it was closer too 'motherfucker' for shock value.
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> it made for an interesting situation when an English friend of mine was
> having a holiday dinner with her Dutch boyfriend and his entire family,  She
> thought it was something like 'dammit' and scandalized his grandparents by
> using it when she dropped her napkin!
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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