This is a true story that happened about one year ago in our office, between me and two other bosses --
Calling it an exhaustive long day for meeting preparation, my big lady boss invited our idea for dinner restaurant, suggesting she'd leave it up to our preference this time. My small boss, a mid-30 Texan single, somehow mumbled out like this: "How about the topless restaurant we went last time, where they also have a milk bar....."
"Not a good idea...why do we go to a bar for dinner? Let's at least try some place a little more formal..." The big lady boss interrupted him, with a mist of loathing on her face.
"That bar is fantastic......" The Texan insisted.
"Nooonono, I don't think that's even appropriate......"
"But it is a bar where you can also order full course dinner....."
"I'm afraid we'll have serious trouble just to expense the bill from that bar....."
At this moment, their voices quickly went escalated and the dialogue animated, both minds paranoid with their own thought, then finally the big lady boss uttered aloud: "You can choose to go there on your own, but not with the team".
The Texan looked perplexed, appearing to have realized the faux pas, so he dashed immediately to the hallway to grab in another Hispanic co-worker: "What do you call that thing...the restaurant we went last time which also featured a milk bar?"
"Hmmm....you mean that tapas bar?"
"Oh yeah, that's what I really meant to say....tapas."
But since I was the only one witnessing the entire conversation, the big lady boss wanted to know what I had actually heard.
"He said something very close to topless, as I hear it." Swear to God, that's exactly how the Texan's tired and twisted tongue pronounced to my innocent ears.
"Yeeeh, you said topless, plus milk bar......so what would you expect me to react to that?" At last the lady boss commented with a chuckle of big relief.
(Afterwards I was trying to recount this true story in Chinese in a few other occasions , but never able to recreate the liveliness, which further testifies the unwritten law that some jokes can speak one language only;))
- Re: 【周末八卦】Topless Barposted on 09/21/2007
:-) Thought only men think about sex every three seconds.
Never ever try to re-tell an English joke in Chinese. People will just stare at you, as I painfully discovered myself a few years back. - Re: 【周末八卦】Topless Barposted on 09/22/2007
(I was trying to recite this true story in Chinese in a few other occasions afterwards, but never able to recreate the liveliness, which further testifies the unwritten law that some jokes can speak one language only;))
agreeable. "Able was I ere I saw Elba."just remind me of the translation of the palindrome by Napoleon :) someone with a stumbling effort kind of manage it with"不到俄岛我不倒". - Re: 【周末八卦】Topless Barposted on 09/23/2007
老哇以后能当官。
你说啥也没听着多好啊。:)
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