On Nov 30, 2004, at 2:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Nick Arnett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dave Land wrote:
What's really sad is that my wife gets this here in California.
Does... she... speak... English???
DOOOOO YOOOOUUUUU SPEAKKKKK EEN-GLISHHHH !!!! (really loud voice) hehehee...
You got it, exactly. We were in Pittsburgh, my birthplace, for our back-East wedding reception, and a little blue-haired woman at a shop actually said that to her, *exactly* as you wrote it. Were you there?
Peggy was too annoyed at first to be funny, but later said that she wished she'd had the presence of mind to answer -- in her unaccented English -- that *she* spoke English, but that I didn't, because I was just a little something she'd picked up in 'Nam...
Gawd, I love that woman.
Dave
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