John Hudson schrieb:
French fries .......... known as chips in the UK ........ got renamed after
France allied itself with Iraq in the UN.
you know, the problem for us (at least me) non-native english speakers
in this list is not the occasional, quite educative joke with misspelled
(on purpose or not) words but the occasional uncertainty about the
degree or subtlety of irony.
regards
:Doro
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Persönlichkeiten werden nicht durch schöne Reden geformt,
sondern durch Arbeit und eigene Leistung.
Albert Einstein
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