OK, I've remembered a
really bad one.
Olf Hansen, the president of the local Communist Party of Bergen, was spending his winter holiday with his British friends, Linda and George. Now I don't know what was on his mind, but he behaved very badly the whole week. He contradicted his hosts all the time, even on the most banal and obvious statements.
For instance, one evening George looked out the window and said, "
Oh, look. It's snowing."
Immediately and without even glancing up from his Collected Works of Louis Althusser, Olf grunted, "
No, it's raining"
. George tried to reason: "
Just look at it! The big snowflakes under the streetlight ... and, look, the lawn is even turning a little white! It's definitely snow!"
Now Olf did look up. He stared at George for a full ten seconds, then calmly replied: "
You mean, 'definitely rain'."
By now George had definitely had enough of Olf's impolite behaviour. He called on to a higher authority -- his wife -- to resolve the dispute: "
Linda, look. Look out there. The snow. Tell him it's snowing. He won't believe me, he keeps saying that it's raining. Tell him that's not rain."
But to his surprise, Linda just shrugged and said:
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×"Rude Olf the Red knows rain, dear."
Whoop, silly me. I guess I'm too worried about bad-word-fear being ingrained into the forum.
/dy
