Dear Thinking, thank you very much for this ! It was funny. I'll have to find a transcript because I don't understand what he says after a while as he speaks too fast for me but I liked what I have understood so far...
Dear Thinking, Yes, accents are very funny and a real part of the linguistic "identity" of us humans. I love languages very much and accents are a part of them, one of the most living part of them.... As you don't speak French, you may not grasp what the guy says and how he says it but it's very funny too. The Parisian accent really sounds stuck-up and stiff.....
Sadly i I don't speak French but I got the drift of it...thanks for that .. i nursed this really old German man once...we sort of clicked together and got on really well..he asked me if I could speak German but I explained I had only learnt...achtung and swine hood.....from the movies.......so he taught me to say goodun Morgan...( good morning) so every morning I would enter his room and cheerfully say...goodun morgen swine hood..........honest he used to crack up laughing his head off...it became a endearing morning ritual between us.....even when I was on night duty I would say the same greeting to him....I look forward to finding that man in the new world..that is if I make it myself... by the way..Australian accents have to be the worst in the world.....lol...
Now that I've stopped laughing I'll mention what he was talking about. He has lost 22 kg of luggage - he had packed for the Australian warm weather - sunglasses from France. He laughed with everyone else at the luggage carousel at the arrival lounge at the airport. His luggage handle went around the carousel 3 times. Everyone else picked up their luggage and went home. Then he worked out that the luggage handle was his. There is a sticker on the luggage handle that says "Heavy item. Bend your knees when picking up." When he circles around, he says that he is going to "sort this out" and he goes up to the customer desk. The staff member at the desk asks him what the problem is. He holds up the luggage handle. She asks if he has a luggage problem. He says that it looks like he has. Then she goes through the usual security questions. Does he know what's in the luggage? He says: Does it matter now? Has the luggage been interfered with? He holds up the luggage handle and says that it looks like it. Did he leave the luggage unattended at any time? He says that he supposes that he must have. He says it weighs 22 kg - surely he would have noticed if he lost it - it would have felt very light in his hands. She says that she is going to fill out a report for the lost luggage. He mentions question 3 on the report: Does your luggage have any distinguishing features? His response: It's got a long black handle if that's of any help to you.
I was first introduced to Vegemite about a year ago or so,,, I was told to apply it on chicken before placing it in the oven. Never did that trick, however, as I received a parcel from Oz one fine day, there it was. A very large jar of 'Mite. And it happened to be first break at my workplace, 9:30am. I will always cherish that parcel. So I had my carrot sticks, celery sticks and radishes like always to snack on. And so I dipped those into that 'mite. That tasted like heaven to me,,,So darn good,,,
"Emergency!" Theme Song Now this took me down memory lane. This TV serial was shown in the '70's and I was a "slip of a girl" at the time. I used to run around in the backyard, pretending to be a paramedic. My dolls were my "patients." I used some highly technical equipment: a lunchbox was my "biophone" to communicate with "Rampart Hospital" a straw (and a scarf to wrap around the doll's arm) was the "IV line" to give "D5W and Ringer's Lactate" 2 steel cans which I rubbed together and used as the "defibrillator" an assortment of fabric remnants (from my mother's sewing room) served as "bandages" a doll's pram was the "ambulance" Anyway, that was quite some time ago. On a serious note now, I watched an interview with Randolph Mantooth, who played the character of paramedic John Gage. He spoke about what happened during filming. The producer of the show wanted the actors to look and act as if they were professional doctors, nurses, paramedics and firefighters - everything had to be as accurate and authentic as possible. For this reason, there was always a technical consultant on the set during filming - they would be a doctor, nurse, paramedic or firefighter, etc. During the filming of a scene, if the consultant noticed that something was not done according to protocol, he was to advise the director after the scene was finished. ("That part wasn't right - a doctor would not say or do that - he would go about it like this, etc.") If the director did not film that scene again, according to how the technical consultant had advised him, then he was removed and the following week, there would be a new director.