Attendance call on the first day back at school in Birmingham.
The Teacher began to call out the names of the pupils
"Mustafa Al Eih Zeri?" Here Miss "Achmed Al Kabul?" Here Miss "Fatima Al Hayek?" Here Miss "Ali Abdul Olmi?" Here Miss "Mohammed Bin Kadri?" Here Miss "Ali Son al Len?" NO ANSWER
In the days of travel by ship we were sitting in the customs shed at Genoa and it took several calls before my father realised it was his name they were calling. His name Maurice Bradley and with the Italian pronunced slowly it came out "Mau-ri-che Bra-del-li"
In the days of travel by ship we were sitting in the customs shed at Genoa and it took several calls before my father realised it was his name they were calling. His name Maurice Bradley and with the Italian pronunced slowly it came out "Mau-ri-che Bra-del-li"
Old but still makes me laugh...gets better as it goes on .... click here...
One for Burns Night Two guys in a pub discussing poetry, one a Scotsman was extolling the virtues of Rabbie Burns whilst the other an Englishman was disagreeing, saying Will Shakespeare was the better exponent. On leaving the hostelry the English guy spotted a guy with very bandy legs approaching them, and turning to the Scotsman asked, how would Burns describe the man? "I spied a man gan doon the road wiv shanks tha wurr extremely bowed". What would Shakespeare have said? "Forsooth!, gadzooks! , what sort of fellow is this, who carries his balls in a parenthesis"