accents

[chargermll]

Back in 2012 me and three other guys got sent to do a job in Louisianna. One day after work we decided to go to a bar and get some drinks. The bartender asks me what I want and I said can I get a Miller Lite. He looks at me kind of puzzled and says Merlot. So I said Miller Lite again and again with a puzzled look he says Merlot. I thought for a couple of seconds and then asked for a Corona. That he understood. Way back around 05,06 I was an apprentice at the time and they put me with this electrican to help him finish up a conduit run. This guy was from Poland and had a thick accent. He looks at me and says we need to cut some of this conduit with a pencil. I'm thinking to myself, how is this guy going to cut conduit with a pencil. About 30 seconds later it hit me. I said to him "oh your going to cut the conduit with a bandsaw". He said yes with a pencil. His thick polish accent made pencil and bandsaw sound the same to me.

 

[kiwigtx]

True story - back in 1992 I was working at an IBM teaching facility out in west London (Sudbury), as part of the electrical & maintenance team. Our job was to prep classrooms for computers - which in those days ran 8-pin IBM connectors and a coax to each terminal. Desk configurations were switched according to numbers and the class being run. Anyhow it could take a weekend to refit an entire class.

One morning I jumped in the elevator to travel up with a workmate, and as we were chatting, a woman turned around and asked me "Where abouts are you from?"

I replied "The basement." .....laughter broke out in the crowded elevator car.