Classic from the Mrs! Vol 2

[21TonyK]

This morning waiting at traffic lights, oncoming X5....

wife "who on earth would pick a fluorescent yellow X5?"

me "the Police dear, its a Police car"


The other day...

wife "do satellites only put their lights on at night?"

me "what?!"

wife "you know so you can see them?

me "no dear, those are stars"

Shes getting worse with age.

[Frank7]

Gargamel said:

I saw that, same contestant, had never heard of Donna Tart tha Pulitzer -rise winning novelist who has sold an]bout eleventy billion books.

An English teacher? It was a bit odd.

I said the same to my wife, “She teaches English, yet says that she’s never heard of Donna Tartt, a Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist?”
Never fear, she had a comeback for that too, “Because English teachers will concentrate on the Classics, not coffee table paperbacks!”
I didn’t get it, she was intelligent enough to say yes when I proposed, yet she put forward way out, incredible excuses for the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire contestant.

[Evangelion]

To be honest, I thought a Donna Tart was something you bought at the bakery.

[singlecoil]

Frank7 said:

I said the same to my wife, “She teaches English, yet says that she’s never heard of Donna Tartt, a Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist?”
Never fear, she had a comeback for that too, “Because English teachers will concentrate on the Classics, not coffee table paperbacks!”
I didn’t get it, she was intelligent enough to say yes when I proposed, yet she put forward way out, incredible excuses for the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire contestant.

I'd have to say I find your wife's explanation entirely reasonable.

[john2443]

Evangelion said:

To be honest, I thought a Donna Tart was something you bought at the bakery.

I though it was what you have for pudding at a kebab shop

[gothatway]

Frank7 said:

she was intelligent enough to say yes when I proposed

we only have your word for it that it was an intelligent move on her part.

[Shuvi McTupya]

Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:

If anyone has a link to that I'd love a read!

Me too.

[Mothersruin]

Shuvi McTupya said:

Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:

If anyone has a link to that I'd love a read!

Me too.

I wouldn't know where to look - it was probably in one of the actual gif threads but its on volume 4, so on one of 1,500 pages.

[TorqueVR]

I thought a Donna tart was sweet kebab

[Frank7]

gothatway said:

Frank7 said:

she was intelligent enough to say yes when I proposed

we only have your word for it that it was an intelligent move on her part.

Mmmm, I can’t argue with that, it’s fair to say that I probably came out ahead when she said yes, but our life together has been on a points system, if she needs, or wants something, she just has to point at it, and I’ll buy it for her.
She didn’t know that when I suggested marriage, but if she saw it coming via a little crystal ball, then perhaps she was more intelligent than I thought.

[Gargamel]

Frank7 said:

Gargamel said:

I saw that, same contestant, had never heard of Donna Tart tha Pulitzer -rise winning novelist who has sold an]bout eleventy billion books.

An English teacher? It was a bit odd.

I said the same to my wife, “She teaches English, yet says that she’s never heard of Donna Tartt, a Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist?”
Never fear, she had a comeback for that too, “Because English teachers will concentrate on the Classics, not coffee table paperbacks!”
I didn’t get it, she was intelligent enough to say yes when I proposed, yet she put forward way out, incredible excuses for the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire contestant.

Well exactly, it’s not as if she writes trashy chick lit, these are serious literary works.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Tartt

As an English Teacher surely it is useful to have some wider knowledge of important books beyond the five on the syllabus....

Anyway, I get it there are lots of authors and on any given day you could be caught out. In fairness to the Teach, she did get that question right ....

[Frank7]

singlecoil said:

Frank7 said:

I said the same to my wife, “She teaches English, yet says that she’s never heard of Donna Tartt, a Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist?”
Never fear, she had a comeback for that too, “Because English teachers will concentrate on the Classics, not coffee table paperbacks!”
I didn’t get it, she was intelligent enough to say yes when I proposed, yet she put forward way out, incredible excuses for the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire contestant.

I'd have to say I find your wife's explanation entirely reasonable.

Fair enough, but I refer you to Gargamel’s post at 11.05 today, 13.05.18.

[Shakermaker]

My wife regularly uses the word canapé instead of canopy, and for various reasons, her daily lexicon has regular need for the word "canopy" to be used but her always saying canapé makes me chuckle

[Usget]

singlecoil said:

I'd have to say I find your wife's explanation entirely reasonable.

You'd need a reinforced coffee table. The Goldfinch is about eleventy million pages long. Every single one of them hauntingly brilliant.

[jimmyjimjim]

Mothersruin said:

Shuvi McTupya said:

Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:

If anyone has a link to that I'd love a read!

Me too.

I wouldn't know where to look - it was probably in one of the actual gif threads but its on volume 4, so on one of 1,500 pages.

Some where prior to this, I suspect.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[Mothersruin]

jimmyjimjim said:

Mothersruin said:

Shuvi McTupya said:

Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:

If anyone has a link to that I'd love a read!

Me too.

I wouldn't know where to look - it was probably in one of the actual gif threads but its on volume 4, so on one of 1,500 pages.

Some where prior to this, I suspect.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

Found it - WCZ was the guy - read through.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[Blown2CV]

yesterday Mrs 2CV and I were in a retail park, which is about my least favourite weekend thing to do, but we were buying a sofa so... anyway we were driving out and I was heading to a sign which was probably the biggest EXIT sign i have ever seen; even the letters were bigger than a person. She says "that's not the way out".

[Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah]

Sarah home half an hour ago. 'The front door was wide open, why's that?' Me, 'erm, because I've painted the frame' Her, 'oh. Well I've shut it' Me, 'oh FFS!'. Her, 'Well how was I supposed to know?!' Me. 'Errrrr, maybe because this morning you asked me to paint it today'. Her, 'you should have told me!'

[Moonhawk]

Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:

Sarah home half an hour ago. 'The front door was wide open, why's that?' Me, 'erm, because I've painted the frame' Her, 'oh. Well I've shut it' Me, 'oh FFS!'. Her, 'Well how was I supposed to know?!' Me. 'Errrrr, maybe because this morning you asked me to paint it today'. Her, 'you should have told me!'

At least you now have the perfect excuse not to do anything she asks.

"I didn't do it - because last time I did something you asked, you had a go at me for doing it"

[Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah]

Moonhawk said:

Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:

Sarah home half an hour ago. 'The front door was wide open, why's that?' Me, 'erm, because I've painted the frame' Her, 'oh. Well I've shut it' Me, 'oh FFS!'. Her, 'Well how was I supposed to know?!' Me. 'Errrrr, maybe because this morning you asked me to paint it today'. Her, 'you should have told me!'

At least you now have the perfect excuse not to do anything she asks.

"I didn't do it - because last time I did something you asked, you had a go at me for doing it"

Indeed, woman logic!