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Could AB not also be "have you?" (with a stuffy nose?)
 
 
 
In a message dated 1/23/2009 11:21:28 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
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(B)Aby  see the puppies.  (H)ell, (th)em (ai)n(t) no puppies.  Oh,  (y)es
(th)em are too see (th)em peein'.

My mother taught me most of  that rebus 45 years ago.

Karen Tellefsen - Electrical  Testing
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See is you can read this.

AB C da  puppies? L MN No puppies. OSMR 2 CM PN.

PR

-----Original  Message-----
From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Werner  engelmaier
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 2:00 PM
To:  [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [TN] English




Aaah, John,  but this is where the rub is---the 'p' stands for  pence.

Werner




-----Original Message-----
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To: 'TechNet E-Mail Forum'  <[log in to unmask]>; 'Werner  engelmaier'
<[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 1:55  pm
Subject: RE: [TN]  English










Most people would construe  that as p'ing in an alley.........

John Burke
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-----Original Message-----
From: TechNet  [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Werner engelmaier
Sent: Friday,  January 23, 2009 10:52 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [TN]  English

My grandkids came up with a perfectly good [British] English  sentence
that would leave most American befuddled {for Dewey--go have a hay  day
with
this}:

We stood in a cue in a narrow mew for a loo for a  p.

Werner







-----Original  Message-----
From: Graham Naisbitt  <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Fri,  23 Jan 2009 12:59 pm
Subject: Re: [TN]  English









You know what? Maybe this  economic disaster isn't so bad after all....?
?

Graham  N?
?

On 23 Jan 2009, at 14:08, Whittaker, Dewey (EHCOE)  wrote:?
?

> Dancing around this subject: are the two of you to  wear your tutu, >
too??

> Dewey?

>?

>  -----Original Message-----?

> From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]]  On Behalf Of Werner engelmaier?

> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009  6:59 AM?

> To: [log in to unmask]

> Subject: Re: [TN]  English?

>?

>?

> Well, Inge,?

> not  only is pronunciation challenging, but there is at least one?

>  sentence that spoken makes perfectly good sense, but you  cannot
really?

> write it:?

>?

> There are  three twos [tos, toos] in the English language.?

>?

>  Werner?

>?

>?

>?

>?

>?

>?

>?

>  -----Original Message-----?

> From: Hernefjord Ingemar  <[log in to unmask]>?

> To:  [log in to unmask]

> Sent: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 8:50 am?

>  Subject: Re: [TN]  English?

>?

>?

>?

>?

>?

>?

>?

>?

>?

>?

>  yeah...agree...not easy to pronounce english  words..?

> no  wonder some people don't understand a ounce?

>?

>  e.g   'ghoti'?

>?

> anyone who can read what it  is??

>?

> It's 'fish'?

>?

> f as in  laugh?

> i as in women?

> sh as in  station?

>?

> Inge?

>?

> -----Original  Message-----?

> From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of  Randall L Bock?

> Sent: fredag 23 januari 2009 14:25?

>  To: [log in to unmask]

> Subject: [TN] FW:  English?

>?

> Funny for the  day....?

>?

> From: [log in to unmask]  [mailto:[log in to unmask]]?

> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009  8:17 AM?

> To: Agacinski, Gerry; Barardi, Michelle; Bock, Cal and  Kay; Randall L?

> Bock;?

> Brenda; Buckley, Joyce ;  Burroughs, Larry; Butler, Beverly; Collins,?

> Steve;?

>  Diane; Edwards, Beverly; Gileczek, Richard; Hafner, Denise;  Janet;?

> Krakowiak,?

> Janet; Lane, Linda and Brad; Mann,  Marjorie; Monica; Patton, Cherie;?

> Wheat,?

> Mike;  Wheat, Pamela; Wilke, Mary Jo?

> Subject:  English?

>?

> Subject: English -  interesting?

>?

> THIS IS GREAT!!!?

> Read all  the way to the end.............. This took a lot of work to  >
put?

>?

>  together!!!?

>?

>?

> You think English is  easy????

>?

>?

>?

>?

>?

>  Read to the end . . . a new twist?

>?

>?

> 1)  The bandage was wound around the wound.?

>?

>?

>  2) The farm was used to produce produce .?

>?

> 3) The  dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.?

>?

>  4) We must polish the Polish furniture.?

>?

> 5) He  could  lead if he would get the lead out.?

>?

> 6)  The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the  desert.?

>?

> 7) Since there is no time like the present,  he thought it was time to?

> present?

> the present  .?

>?

> 8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass  drum.?

>?

> 9) When shot at, the dove dove into the  bushes.?

>?

> 10) I did not object to the  object.?

>?

> 11) The insurance was invalid for the  invalid.?

>?

> 12) There was a row among the oarsmen about  how to row?

>?

> 13) They were too close to the door to  close it.?

>?

> 14) The buck does funny things when the  does are present.?

>?

> 15) A seamstress and a sewer fell  down into a sewer line.?

>?

> 16) To help with planting,  the farmer taught his sow to sow.?

>?

> 17) The wind was  too strong to wind the sail.?

>?

> 18) Upon seeing the  tear in the painting I shed a tear.?

>?

> 19) I had to  subject the subject to a series of tests.?

>?

> 20) How  can I intimate this to my most intimate  friend??

>?

>?

> Let's face it - English is a  crazy language. There is no egg in?

> eggplant, nor?

> ham  in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.?

> English  muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in >
France  .?

> Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet,  are >
meat.?

> We take?

> English for  granted.?

> But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand  can work >
slowly,?

> boxing?

> rings are square and  a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a?

>  pig.?

>?

> And why is it that writers write but fingers  don't fing, grocers
don't?

> groce and?

> hammers don't  ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the  >
plural?

> of?

> booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese.  So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2?

> indices??

> Doesn't  it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If  >
you?

> have a?

> bunch of odds and ends and get  rid of all but one of them, what do
you?

> call  it??

>?

> If teachers taught, why didn't preachers  praught? If a vegetarian
eats?

> vegetables, what does a  humanitarian eat??

> Sometimes I think all the English speakers  should be committed to an?

> asylum for?

> the verbally  insane. In what language do people recite at a play and?

> play at  a?

> recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that  run
and?

> feet that?

>  smell??

>?

> How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the  same, while a wise man >
and?

> a wise?

> guy are  opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a  >
language?

> in?

> which your house can burn up as  it burns down, in which you fill in a?

> form by?

>  filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going  on.?

>?

> English was invented by people, not computers,  and it reflects the?

> creativity of?

> the human race,  which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why,?

> when  the?

> stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out,  they
are?

> invisible.?

>?

> Why doesn't  'Buick' rhyme with 'quick' ??

>?

>?

> You lovers  of the English language?

> might enjoy this  .?

>?

> There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more  meanings than any >
other?

>?

> two-letter word, and  that is 'UP.'?

>?

> It's easy to understand UP, meaning  toward the sky or at the top of >
the?

> list,?

>  but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP ? At a meeting,  >
why?

> does a?

> topic come UP ? Why do we speak  UP and why are the officers UP for?

> election and?

> why  is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?

>?

> We  call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room,  polish
UP?

> the?

> silver; we warm UP the leftovers  and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP?

> the house?

> and  some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has?

>  real?

> special meaning. People stir UP  trouble, line UP for  tickets, work
UP?

> an?

> appetite, and think UP  excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be?

> dressed  UP?

> is special.?

>?

> And this UP is  confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is?

> stopped UP.  We?

> open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at  night.?

>?

> We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP ! To  be knowledgeable about
the?

> proper?

> uses of UP ,  look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized?

> dictionary,  it?

> takes UP  almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to  about thirty?

> definitions.?

> If you are UP to it, you  might try building UP a list of the many
ways?

> UP  is?

> used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't  give UP, >
you?

> may wind?

> UP with a hundred or  more. When it threatens to rain, we say it is?

> clouding UP  .?

> When the sun comes out we say it is clearing  UP.?

>?

> When it rains, it wets the earth and often  messes things UP.?

>?

> When it doesn't r ain for awhile,  things dry UP.?

>?

> One could go on and on, but I'll wrap  it  UP, for now my time is UP, >
so?

> it is?

>  time to shut UP!?

>?

> Oh one more  thing:?

>?

>?

> What is the first thing you do  in the morning & the last thing you >
> do
at?

>  night??

> U----P?

>?

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