Subject: French Spelling
From: Unicorn (unicorn@indenial.com)
Date: Wed Dec 05 2001 - 16:37:11 EST
"Need a New Car?"
A Texan was visiting a Maine farmer ("fahmah").
The Texas rancher was boasting to his host
about the size of his spread: "I can get into my
pickup truck and drive all day and still not reach
the boundary of my ranch," he bragged.
The Mainer shook his head knowingly, and replied,
"Aayuhh, I had a truck like that once."
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"Miss"
The preacher was having a heart-to-heart talk with
a backslider of his flock, whose drinking of moonshine
invariably led to quarreling with his neighbors, and
occasional shotgun blasts at some of them.
"Can't you see, Ben," intoned the parson, "that not
one good thing comes out of this drinking?"
"Well, I sort of disagree there," replied the backslider.
"It makes me miss the folks I shoot at."
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"French Spelling"
In California's Sonoma Valley, where vineyards cater
to wine snobbery, a woman phoned the classified ad
department of a newspaper. She offered for sale what
sounded like "well-aged Caumeneur."
The ad-taker was unfamiliar with that particular wine,
but was used to the infusion of French words into the
local vocabulary.
"Could you please spell that?" she asked.
"You know," said the woman impatiently, "C-o-w
M-a-n-u-r-e."
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