Comments on: Golden Bay: down on the farm http://www.logophile.org/blog/2007/03/21/golden-bay-down-on-the-farm/ blog of a logophile (not "logos", but "λόγος") Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:06:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: tikitu http://www.logophile.org/blog/2007/03/21/golden-bay-down-on-the-farm/comment-page-1/#comment-5173 tikitu Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:27:36 +0000 http://www.logophile.org/blog/?p=250#comment-5173 <p>"So you've got a wee new brother, Jimmy? The stork came and visited, did it?"</p> <p>"The what?"</p> <p>"The stork -- in the chimney, bringing the new baby, you know..."</p> <p>"I don't know about no stork in the chimney. Me dad said it was a shag at the beach."</p> <p>(With apologies to Brian, who can tell that joke properly.)</p> “So you’ve got a wee new brother, Jimmy? The stork came and visited, did it?”

“The what?”

“The stork — in the chimney, bringing the new baby, you know…”

“I don’t know about no stork in the chimney. Me dad said it was a shag at the beach.”

(With apologies to Brian, who can tell that joke properly.)

]]> By: Tom Lentz http://www.logophile.org/blog/2007/03/21/golden-bay-down-on-the-farm/comment-page-1/#comment-5174 Tom Lentz Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:49:05 +0000 http://www.logophile.org/blog/?p=250#comment-5174 <p>My knowledge of English comes mainly from films, and I learned the word `shag' from Austin Powers. I made some Freudian interpretation error, it appears. So, what he actually was inquiring about was whether the pretty girls would like to share waterfowl with him?</p> My knowledge of English comes mainly from films, and I learned the word `shag’ from Austin Powers. I made some Freudian interpretation error, it appears. So, what he actually was inquiring about was whether the pretty girls would like to share waterfowl with him?

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