Showing posts with label humor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label humor. Show all posts
Monday, March 30, 2009
Iraqi Jumping Jacks
One of my friends told me that I had to search YouTube for "Iraqi Jumping Jacks" and that it was the funniest thing ever. I'll have to agree. This is some funny stuff. The guy on the far right look like he's having a seizure or something lol, and the guy in the middle is just dancing. I never realized that jumping jacks aren't an exercise that is done everywhere in the world. I guess they take more practice than I thought. In the US you start doing them in elementary school and the military does them all the time. Is the US the only country that does jumping jacks?
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Confusion between the letters "P" and "B"
Just as many speakers of Asian languages have trouble distinguishing "L" and "R", lots of Arabs have difficulty in telling "P" and "B" apart. Since Arabic only has the "B" sound, "P" is unfamiliar to them. This can make for some hilarious mistakes if a native Arabic speaker hasn't quite mastered the nuances of English. Once I was sitting in class and on Mondays the teachers would always ask us what we did over the weekend. This particular teacher spoke and understood English very well, but still had trouble with "P" and "B". He'd say things like "banda bear" and the words "pet", "bet", "bit", and "pit" all sounded alike to him. He'd only be able to tell by context what you meant.
Well anyway, this one Monday he was going around the room and everyone was telling him what we did over the weekend. When he got to me I told him that I had watched the The Bourne Identity. When I said that he started to look a bit uncomfortable. He told me that I should keep things like that to myself. I asked him why and he said, "Porn isn't an appropriate topic for class." After the rest of the students and I explained to him why we were laughing so hard he realized his mistake.
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