"John McKenzie" <jmac_melbourne@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:47B3B3BB.718C@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> During the 60s when my old man was between bad marriages (sorry mum) he
> lived at the family home for a while. Being from catholic stock, it was
> a ****ing huge house (and not all the rooms refilled after ww2 thanks to
> some ****s flying a dutch flag). So students used to board there too. At
> the time it was mostly singa****e/malay families worth a bundle sending
> their kids to school. I'm reminded of the fact that most of the family
> went away one summer, and dad stayed at the house. They all got back,
> and one of the students was having dinner with them. In his best
> English, he said to my grandmother 'may I be excused please, I must go
> to the ****house'. A few gasps (though to be honest, my grandmother
> taught me a bunch of swearwords I didn't know) and then all glared at
> dad. Before they left for the holiday, he would have said toilet, dad
> 'corrected' his English at every sly op****tunity.
Lol :)
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Regards,
Noddy.
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