tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post6881985627205906789..comments2024-03-27T20:34:09.464+01:00Comments on zmkc: I Must Stress Thiszmkchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-80714231077873737922011-02-18T05:59:54.924+01:002011-02-18T05:59:54.924+01:00...was the correct answer ;-)...was the correct answer ;-)Gadjo Dilohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08998278830936531990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-7137729311328691682011-02-16T21:13:08.672+01:002011-02-16T21:13:08.672+01:00Plus, I think Francis is a really nice name.Plus, I think Francis is a really nice name.zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-7121843673721610522011-02-16T21:12:28.758+01:002011-02-16T21:12:28.758+01:00If it's any comfort, I used to know a woman ca...If it's any comfort, I used to know a woman called Honor Heap.zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-75142025181959904932011-02-16T13:23:09.639+01:002011-02-16T13:23:09.639+01:00Francis. A name that nobody even vaguely masculine...Francis. A name that nobody even vaguely masculine has been called since the Elizabethan era. My parents.... what were they thinking?Gadjo Dilohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08998278830936531990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-56595505957382883952011-02-16T12:10:41.843+01:002011-02-16T12:10:41.843+01:00oops.. let the cat outoops.. let the cat outPollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18291941714980391853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-65383960732320825042011-02-16T11:33:51.734+01:002011-02-16T11:33:51.734+01:00What is your motel like, Polly? Can we skype so th...What is your motel like, Polly? Can we skype so that I can see it all, without having to get in an aeroplane?<br />I like the diaeresis, Gadjo, but I don't make a fuss about it - or indeed my name: an old retainer made my wedding cake and it was only when we saw my name iced on the top that it became clear that for 25 years she'd thought, like a lot of the other people I'd met up till then, that my name was actually Sue. There was no point telling her the truth at that stage. But what's your real name anyway?zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-15125743592034843752011-02-16T07:27:43.225+01:002011-02-16T07:27:43.225+01:00Zoe!! I knew it. But, tell me, do you favour the d...Zoe!! I knew it. But, tell me, do you favour the diaeresis mark.... Zoƫ? This is a critical moment.Gadjo Dilohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08998278830936531990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-76044515055152381562011-02-16T05:32:32.551+01:002011-02-16T05:32:32.551+01:00According to this story (told by the president of ...According to this story (told by the president of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences), if it wasn't for you, Zoe, he mightn't have been a doctor...<br /><br />A famous nobel laureate is travelling with his wife in their car in the southern United States. They stop for gas. Suddenly she gets out of the car and the laureate is puzzled to see his wife hugging and kissing the gas station attendant. She tells her husband that he was a former sweetheart in her youth and she has not seen him for a long time. The Nobel laureate is not amused and tells her: "It is embarrassing to see my wife hugging and kissing a gas station attendant. After all, I am a Nobel laureate." To which she replies: "No, you don't understand. If I had married that guy, he would now be the Nobel laureate."<br /><br /> - and hello from Hangzhou, which is nothing like I expected, but that's the point of travel, isn't it?Pollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18291941714980391853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-61238345594709241132011-02-15T21:33:02.277+01:002011-02-15T21:33:02.277+01:00He's a Ph.D type of doctor, not a medical one,...He's a Ph.D type of doctor, not a medical one, Gadj. As to boring, all life is boring, isn't it, if you want it to be?zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-9596864000878576462011-02-15T13:19:08.867+01:002011-02-15T13:19:08.867+01:00Are you married to a doctor, zedders? (I didn'...Are you married to a doctor, zedders? (I didn't mean to imply that your life is boring, how could it possibly be.) I somehow imagined he'd be a diplomat, what with all the living and travelling in unfashionable Eastern European countries. But where's the fun in doctoring if one is not allowed to inject things?Gadjo Dilohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08998278830936531990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-4316196347404516122011-02-14T11:33:58.644+01:002011-02-14T11:33:58.644+01:00Yeah - after all I'm married to a doctor (alth...Yeah - after all I'm married to a doctor (although, as one of his daughters pointed out once, not the injecting kind) and, if it wasn't for me, he'd be a rich one as well.zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-73420849447867263622011-02-14T06:10:15.675+01:002011-02-14T06:10:15.675+01:00I can imagine your disappointment: a film about a ...I can imagine your disappointment: a film about a woman - played by Kristin Scott Thomas or otherwise - married to a <i>rich</i> doctor in the South of France does sound pretty darn boring.Gadjo Dilohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08998278830936531990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-90612229012544851142011-02-13T23:06:18.634+01:002011-02-13T23:06:18.634+01:00Hello, Madame, I will pass on the invitation - and...Hello, Madame, I will pass on the invitation - and you're right: imagine if someone put the stress on Mad in your name? The effect, of course, would be completely ridiculouszmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-50465478321397563992011-02-13T22:17:03.751+01:002011-02-13T22:17:03.751+01:00Inadvertent stress can always cause problems with ...Inadvertent stress can always cause problems with understanding, even with words. Hope she enjoys herself. When she's finished, she can come to the UK and improve our English too.Madame DeFargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08172239340844485940noreply@blogger.com