From the sublime to the ridiculous

WIENERS

July 1st, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized

Most people like the French accent. They may not like the French, but they like the French accent and especially when a French person is presenting in English to a group of English people.

There are the normal accent offences such as the word ’sheet’ which comes out in a French accent as ’shit’, and then there’s the word ‘piece’ which becomes ‘piss’. But one that I’d not previously heard until the other day was the word ‘winner’.

During a presentation, a French lady was discussing a competition and handing out prizes but what she actually said was:

“congratulations to you, you are the wiener” which is, of course, American slang for penis.

  1. 7 Responses to “WIENERS”

  2. By Mark on Jul 2, 2004

    It’s a good job Michael Wiener wasn’t attending. Do be sensible. Excellent puddings.

  3. By stephane on Jul 2, 2004

    “Most people like the French accent”
    Here most people like the english accent too!
    “They may not like the French, but they like the French accent”
    (only let substitute “French” with “English ” and you’ve got the “r

  4. By Jonola on Jul 2, 2004

    thank you for the longest comment ever on this site! Although I’m sure that Shunta will now do his utmost to beat your record…

  5. By Mark on Jul 3, 2004

    Absolutely extraordinary.

  6. By shunta on Jul 4, 2004

    Well 351 words is a very long quote. I feel bad that I am so utterly predictable that you already know that I will attempt to beat the record for the longest quote ever in the history of your interesting and amusing website. Unfortunately I have very little to say on the subject so all I can do is attempt to waffle for a while and hope that I can write a very very long quote. This actually reminds me of the time that I had to do something that required me to do something else in order to complete the task. It all started very well but towards the middle tailed off and the noise it made was very strange. It was rather like a blind Labrador riding a penny farthing down a cobbled street. (Thanks to Matt Smith of The Cranley Hotel for that quote). Anyway this odd and worrying noise went on from some time until I did the other thing that I had to do and then fortunately the noise stopped as abruptly as it had begun just before. So after this second task was completed all I had to do was something else until Colin had finished his second task. When this was done we decided that enough was enough and went home. He rode his moped and I borrowed my girlfriend

  7. By Shifty on Jul 8, 2004

    Shunta, have you had your baby yet???

    I’m a little out of touch being 17,534 miles away!!!

  8. By Jonola on Jul 17, 2004

    Thank you, Shunta, for the longest comment ever, but surely you’ve got better things to do than write bollocks? Like looking after your heavily pregnant fiance for example…

Post a Comment