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Transatlantic English strikes again

Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 3:24 pm
by spot
http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/d ... 009c0.html

The Denton Record-Chronicle's high on my list of great newspapers, they go where few other papers tread.

"A prostitute stole a man’s pants, with his wallet and car keys inside, he told Denton police Monday. The man called 911 about 9 p.m. to report the crime. The responding officer noted the man was too intoxicated to make a written statement and the officer had trouble finding out what actually happened".

The only use of the word for male clothing in England is for underwear, it puzzled me for a minute.

Denton's not a busy town, I take it?

Transatlantic English strikes again

Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 5:27 pm
by Pinky
:wah::wah:

I love the inadvertant slip-ups between US and UK!

Never ask if you can bum a fag...it doesn't mean scrounging a ciggie over there, lol!:o:wah:

Transatlantic English strikes again

Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 5:45 pm
by Pinky
fuzzy butt;961591 wrote: I've seen that bum a fag in full flight here .................not a good option when it comes to asking for a ciggarette in a pub.:wah::wah::wah: He was Canadian so he was forgiven.


Haha!!! I still find it funny though!

The first time I heard anyway say 'cute fanny' I nearly fell off my chair looking for holes in clothing!:lips::wah::lips:

Transatlantic English strikes again

Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 5:50 pm
by Pinky
LOL! Did you ever see 'Sex Wax' in gas stations?

You can imagine me picking that up and squawking 'Oh my god!!! They do lube!' only to be informed that it's for your surfboard...oops.:o

Transatlantic English strikes again

Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 10:43 am
by spot
I get the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in my email too. This is today's...Until Sunday, 35-year-old Carla Ramson lived in an apartment in southwest Atlanta with two men she identified as her husband and live-in boyfriend, according to an Atlanta police report. Both men were arrested after they got into a fight at their apartment in the 2900 block of Third Avenue, possibly because one got jealous of the other. The incident happened at 11:30 a.m. Sunday.

Ramson told police that she and husband Lee were having sex in her bedroom, while Reed was sitting in the living room, the report said. Apparently that didn’t sit well with Reed. He got angry and demanded that Ramson and Lee let him in the bedroom, the report said. Reed somehow got into the bedroom and pushed Lee, the woman told police. Lee returned the favor, pushing Reed onto a table lamp, the report said. Reed then picked up a glass vase and hit Lee in the face, Lee told police. Lee retaliated by getting a knife and trying to stab Reed several times, Reed told police. When police arrived, Reed was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital for injuries, and both were eventually taken to jail.

When reached by phone Thursday afternoon, Ramson said that both men no longer lived there and she wasn’t going to worry about it. But she said she couldn’t talk because she had company over, and she asked a reporter to call her later. She could not be reached later.

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/ ... Newspapers in England are nothing like so entertaining.