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Lixin Z.
November 7, 2005
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mary h.
October 27, 2005
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I want to learn German
I am a Chinese MBA student in Villingen - Schwenningen, Germany now. I want to practise my German with somebody, and can also make friends. I can speak English.
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lusong y.
October 18, 2005
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Ayuda
Hablo Español y deseo aprender Chino mandarin o cantones
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victor m.
September 15, 2005
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Duck calls and catfish bait
Actually, the name of the catfish has everything to do with the cat. The catfish is a scavenger, and it has tentacles around it's mouth that look very much like a cat's whiskers. That's why we call it a catfish.
But the point of the joke is that when the woman breaks wind,(when she "farts") she makes a sound that the blind man mistakes for the sound of a duck call, and an odor he mistakes for the smell of catfish bait.
Re:Question relating william
what it means by duck call is a wooden device used by hunters to mimck the sound of a duck to attrack ducks to kill.
catfish bait is a fishing bait made especially to catch a fish found in north america called a catfish(the name has nothing to do with a cat)
This is a reply to message # 53236
Language pair: Chinese, Mandarin; English
Category: Jokes
Post date: June 11, 2005
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Mark S.
June 11, 2005
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Latest: December 14, 2005
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Question relating
I read the story "Shopping at Walmart" by Lady T. It's interesting but I can not understand the last line. I guess the phrases Duck Call and Catfish Bait must have some special meaning here. Please explain if possible. Thanks.
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HN L.
June 3, 2005
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Mark S.
March 30, 2005
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Latest: March 31, 2005
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Re:Palabras parecidas: en español sobre aprender chino en inglés
Ahora me acuerdo que hay algo bastante graciosa que encontré en estudiar el mandarín.
En esta clase, tuvimos un diálogo en nuestros ejercicios, para decir, "quiero pedirle un favor," que en chino, se dice, "wo shang ching ni bang mang," (los escrito para que saben bastante como se dice, no como lo escribe en romanización de chino), O tal vez, "Ching ni bang wo". Lo que es algo divertido sobre eso es que la palabra, "bang" en inglés es un modismo para hacer sexo. En practicando esas expresiones, mi cerebro siempre quiere traducir todos las palabras al inglés, excepto la palabra "bang" que ya parece como una palabra en inglés. Por eso, siempre dije "wo shang ching ni bang wo", y en la cabeza siempre oí, "I want to ask you to "bang" me" que quiere decir, "Quiero pedir que me cogieras."
Siempre fue bastante difícil practicarlo y contener la risa.
Mark Springer
Sacramento, CA USA.
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Mark S.
February 20, 2005
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Latest: February 20, 2005
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zhu l.
February 1, 2005
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Re: A man walks into a bar...
> I also some cross country skiis that
> were as long as my car!
>
Those people who ski in a virgin snow
need the longest skis because the
surface pressure must be kept low.
Regular cross-country skis are 2 to 2.5
meters long.
> So tell me the truth now Puti, do they
> still have live orchestsras playing
> when you go to the mall shopping?
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I have seen one or two classic
instruments played at a time, but
never a real orchestra, even a small one.
Live music in general is quite rare in
malls. It is more common in the railway
station underground tunnels of Helsinki,
which could be thought as a kind of mall,
too, because there are some shops there.
Typically you can hear an accompanied
violin, cello, or a woodwind instrument
there.
My best tunnel music experience
happened in Paris, when I listened to
a performing harpist in a subway tunnel.
Puti
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Juha-Petri T.
January 26, 2005
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Latest: January 26, 2005
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