Date:         Sat, 22 Mar 1997 13:16:20 -0500
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         SStones <sstones@idirect.com>
Subject:      Friday Fun Translation... (A day late)

At 01:22 3/22/97 -0600, you wrote:
>On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Kelly Bauman wrote:
>
>> >S'il t'interesse de trouver des autres qui parlent ou ecrivent en francais, 

It's all too interesting, the trouble dead authors get you when partly
evident in front seats,


>> >il ne faut pas oublier ceux qui vivent outre la France.  Ich spreche auch

I drove fast past an officer, tues., with a visable french author.  I was
speeding and

>> >fliessend deutsch und mehrere andere Sprachen, aber es stoert mich nicht

flagged down and met patrolman Sprachen, after he stared at my licence

>> >auf english zu korrespondieren.

and English Zoo Registration (Hey...  It's ID)

>> Il y a plusiers de Canadiens au liste qui parle francais.

He seemed to pause like a Canadien (Montreal Hockey team) and listen to my
pal in the front seat.
 
>Bonjour,

"Hello"

>Il y a des Americaines qui le parle, si vous le preferez (il y avait 

When that got ambiguous quiet from my pal, he went to the prefferred side
(To await

>longtemps, mais, je pense que je peut le faire!).   :-)

the time, May, then pinched him just to be fair)


Well, To make a long story short, The cop eventually decided that the author
in the passenger seat was dead, added transporting a dead body without a
licence, murder one and kidnapping to my list of fines that had started with
speeding, but then dropped all charges when I offerred him a free Family
Membership to the English Zoo.
The Moral of this story?  Either drive slower or keep all dead bodies out of
sight in your van at all times.



Cheers,

SStones        Toronto Ont.
      <sstones@idirect.com>