No engineers. No calculations or load studies.No checklists or inspections. No ‘elf ‘n safety No modifications.No insurance. No pumps. No ballast studies. No tow master. No manuals. No certifications. No contingency plans.
Check out the guys bailing out the water furiously.
Tanjooberrymutts??
All will become clear when you read the next piece 😉
Believe me… you WILL understand!!!
Here goes…
The following is a telephonic exchange between maybe you as a Hotel guest & room-service in China …
Room Service: “Morrin. Roon sirbees.”
Guest: “Sorry, I thought I dialled room-service.”
Room Service: ” Rye , Roon sirbees…morrin! Joowish to oddor sunteen?”
Guest: “Uh… Yes, I’d like to order bacon & eggs.”
Room Service: “Ow ulai den?”
Guest: ” …….What??”
Room Service: “Ow ulai den?!?… Pryed, boyud, pochd?”
Guest: “Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry.. Scrambled, please.”
Room Service: “Ow ulai dee bayken? Creepse?”
Guest: “Crisp will be fine.”
Room Service: “Hokay. An sahn toes?”
Guest: “What?”
Room Service: “An toes. ulai sahn toes?”
Guest: “I…. Don’t think so..”
RoomService: “No? Udo wan sahn toes???”
Guest: “I feel really bad about this, but I don’t know what ‘udo wan sahn toes’ means.”
RoomService: “Toes! Toes!… Why Uoo don wan toes?… Ow bow anglish moppin we botter?”
Guest: “Oh, English muffin!!! I’ve got it! You were saying ‘toast’… Fine…Yes, an English muffin will be fine.”
RoomService: “We botter?”
Guest: “No, just put the botter on the side.”
RoomService: “Wad?!?”
Guest: “I mean butter… Just put the butter on the side.”
RoomService: “Copy?”
Guest: “Excuse me?”
RoomService: “Copy.. tea… meel?”
Guest: “Yes. Coffee, please…. And that’s everything.”
RoomService: “One Minnie. Scramah egg, creepse bayken, Anglish moppin, we botter on sigh & copy… Rye ??”
Guest: “Whatever you say.”
RoomService: “Tanjooberrymutts.”
Guest: “You’re welcome”
Remember I did say “By the time you read through this…
.. YOU WILL UNDERSTAND ‘TANJOOBERRYMUTTS’
And you do, don’t you!
😉
Boadicea's Chariot 
Splendid, even better when it didn’t cost us a penny in foreign aid!
Excellent choice of musical accompaniment
Soutie – I don’t just like this, I absolutely love it. Pure genius. I have seen and heard the same so many times in my meanderings around the globe that it makes me nostalgic for the world that functions perfectly well without ‘elf ‘n’ safety nutters.
OZ
I do, I do understand, and thank you for an amusing post, Soutie. 🙂
Morning all 🙂
Ja, I thought them too good not to share 😉