Actual things you actually said (or heard) in the last 24 hours

New Ducktales. I want to go to there. I did not know this was a thing!

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You are in for a treat then. It’s amazing!

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Is that Disney+?

That’s where I watched it but fairly sure there will be less reputable means to watch it.

Not forgetting this

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“Be a garbage can, not a garbage can’t.”

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Okay, I have to know, what was the context or situation that brought about these words?

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Taking out the bins probably

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This reminds me of a common exhortation in our family:
Are you a Pelican or a Pelican’t???

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Sorry, I’ve been lurking getting to know you all and had to port this over to here:

“I don’t speak Welsh, but get more confident with alcohol” - @Captbnut

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Alcohol: the first Esperanto

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I was basically sitting on this one just waiting for a situation that justified it

Bingooo

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I like this one a lot

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I once had a long conversation at the Oktoberfest with a technical apprentice from Tübingen. I quite clearly remember him telling me he spoke no English, and I speak approximately no German.

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I have a friend who speaks Esperanto (goes to conferences and everything) and I learned from him that William Shatner did a 1966 horror movie called INCUBUS entirely in (very bad) Esperanto.

Here’s the comedy trailer where they know exactly what kind of movie they have:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iGhLN8qDiY

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I can imagine pausing after every word must not do the trick so well in Esperanto…

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“the historical inevitability of an undead proletariat”

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“In my experience most doctors are opportunistic drinkers - keep going until they ran out, or at least they can’t see it any more.”

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“Peel me like your French oranges”

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“Hola, buenos dias” - My wife to the Indian appliance technicians who came to triage and fix our refrigerator

However, they later spoke to our white au pair as if she were the lady of the house and assumed my Asian American, Jersey born wife was the help. So we’re even.

I appear to be the only one who can’t stop laughing.

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“Honesty is not the easiest way to go through life. Honestly.”

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