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2006-12-22 Britain

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Posted by .com 2006-12-22 01:15|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Hear them down in Soho Square
dropping achees everywhere....

Posted by Shipman 2006-12-22 07:10|| 2006-12-22 07:10|| Front Page Top

#2 "I understand the Oxford accent but not Cockney."

I fort 'e was 'avin' a lucky dip, but 'e's brown bread, china.

Posted by Whiskettes4Hilali 2006-12-22 09:29|| 2006-12-22 09:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Proctologist: "I said I wanted a Butt Light!"

Posted by DepotGuy 2006-12-22 10:16|| 2006-12-22 10:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Great concept, now expand on it. Why stop at just doctors?

Posted by bigim-ky 2006-12-22 12:53|| 2006-12-22 12:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Why not just make a verbal interview part of the licensing process? If not understood, reject. Or redirect towards the public address system at the Tube station?

Posted by USN, Ret. 2006-12-22 14:35|| 2006-12-22 14:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Why didn't he just say, "M'aidez, M'aidez" I think the emergency operator would have understood...

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-12-22 15:32|| 2006-12-22 15:32|| Front Page Top

#7 "I've studied English since I was 10 but it was Shakespeare..."

Ambo, ambo, wherefore art thou, ambo.

Alas, poor Joao Paulo, I knew him well.

To breathe, or not to breathe: that is the question.

The first thing we do, let's kill all the patients.

My patient 'e 'as a fever, longing still.

Now cracks a noble heart. good night sweet patient.

For in that sleep of death what ambulance may come.

I cannot tell what the dickens his problem is.

Whom I do treat and will do till his death.

When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,

Devoutly to be wish'd. to die, to sleep;

Thy drugs are quick. thus with a kiss I die.

Posted by Whiskettes4Hilali 2006-12-22 22:12|| 2006-12-22 22:12|| Front Page Top

#8 Simply gorgeous, Whiskettes4Hilali!

In Germany, the cash register clerks at the grocery stores are required to demonstrate facility in both Hochdeutsch (BBC German) and the local dialect, in order to be able to serve all customers... or at least that was so in the 1990s. And that was in the German version of a minimum wage job. When one is in a public service job, one needs to be able to communicate effectively with the generality of the public. If one is unable to do so, there are always other kinds of jobs, or other places. Your desire to work does not trump my right not to be killed by your incompetence in a work-critical skill.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-12-22 23:09|| 2006-12-22 23:09|| Front Page Top

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