[UA] School sketches (long)

[Gregory Paul Stolze]

At 02:05 PM 02/01/2001, you wrote:
>The Finns worship Nokia.

Mommy YES!  I own stock in Nokia!

>I almost said shit, but I didn't, as it seems kind of awkward to me to use
foreign curse >words. It's as if I'm trying to be something I'm not, trying
to show my cool to all you >native English speakers. And that brings me
nicely to the cultural differences.

I'm trying to remember where I read the good bit about how people can only
swear well in their own language.  It had an example of a Quebecois saying
something like "I'm so to fucking sick of these American fuckers of their
own mothers coming to our country" or some such.

-G.
[F]or heaven's sake stop bugging her about all these erotic tactics like
three-ways.
We have some of those lamps in our house, and they're not as exciting as
you might think.
		-Garrison Keillor

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