Well, wow. I just got the crap scared outta me.

[Heidi]

I'm sitting here in my studio in absolutely silence, doing about 50 things at once, and suddenly the door is thrown open without a knock, and Oswaldo, our postman, tosses a big yellow envelope on my desk. "Ciao!!!! Resto! Buon Anno!" And then he's gone like a flash.

Sheesh, I love the guy for returning my change to me, but a knock would be nice. :yoiks:

[Callalily]

1. I know the feeling.

I too startle easily. At work people have learned to give a light tap on my door before entering.

:hug:

[Heidi]

2. I think Oswaldo got the message when

I greeted him with, "SHIT!" instead of "Ciao!" :rofl: :spray:

[Callalily]

3. Bwahahahaha!

Yes, sometimes a reactionary word does the trick!

[Heidi]

4. He's probably down at the Post right now

telling all of his co-workers what a filthy mouth I have. :rofl: :spray:

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. Even though

you said it in English...? :shrug:

[Heidi]

7. The "S" word is universally understood,

I'm learning.

Oh, have one of these while you're here: :*

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. Ah

This I didn't know.

Now I can stop saying "scheiss" around MissH. :D



:*

[Heidi]

10. Our goddaughters didn't know that

"shit" was an English word until CMW informed them. :eyes:

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. It's great that he's teaching them the important stuff

Hey, did'ja know Monty Python got away with "shit" twice because they said it in furrin languages? Once was when Beulah Premise was on the phone with Muriel Sartre; when she asked for Jean Paul and was told he wasn't in, she said, "Oh, merde."

Then in the "Michael Ellis" bit, the Nazi agent who was undercover as Queen Victoria said "Es schmecke wie ein Scheisshaus" when she noticed the aroma from the carpet being soiled after people freaked over Dennis Keats' "Ode to a Glass of Sherry":


My heart aches and a drowsy numbness pains
my senses, as though an anteater I'd seen
A nasty long-nosed brute
With furry legs and sticky darting tongue
I seem to feel its cruel jaws
Crunch, crunch, there go my legs
Snap, snap, my thorax too
My head's in a twain, there goes my brain
Swallow, swallow, swallow, slurp





Just thought you'd like to know that. :D

[Heidi]

15. Duly noted.

Your work here is complete. :rofl: :spray:

[Callalily]

6. They probably

all want to take turns on your route to see which one can make you jump the highest!

[Heidi]

8. And if they _do_, I'll know where they got that bright idea, Ms. Smarty-Pants.

:spank:

:rofl: :spray:

:hug: Happy New Year, SF! :hug:

[Callalily]

11. Ummmmm . . .

Who me?

[Heidi]

12. YOU, missy, are in cahoots

with the Swiss Post. It's a conspiracy of surprising proportions. :tinfoilhat:

:hug:

[Callalily]

19. And we all know

what jokers those Swiss are. Like, putting holes in cheese! :rofl:

[Heidi]

21. CMW once told me a naughty joke about the holes in Swiss cheese,

and even if I could remember it, I like you so well that I wouldn't inflict it on you. :rofl: :spray:

[Callalily]

22. Thank you from the bottom

of my heart. Additionally, we wouldn't want this thread locked because of you! That would never do!

[TheMightyFavog]

14. Man, I wish I was in Switzerland now...

I didn't see much of it, but if the rest of Switzerland is anything like Swiss International Airlines and Zuerich International Airport, (Which IMHO, is the best airport that I have ever been to, leaps and bounds over Heathrow, O'Hare and McCarren in Vegas.) then I'm sure I would enjoy Switzerland immensly, especially in Winter.

Frohe neues Jahr!

[Heidi]

16. Switzerland would love to have you return, JC!

We're in the warmer, Italian-speaking part, though. :hi:

[xchrom]

17. and here i thought the Postman always rang twice?

i'd have pitched something at his head.

[Heidi]

18. My hands were shaking so badly, I don't think I even thought

to clutch my pearls. :rofl: :spray:

Buon anno, sweetie! :hug: :loveya:

[xchrom]

20. Buon Anno! and i have officially put my pearls on

and am clutching them right now.

love to you and CMW -- and all my best.