Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 08:24:40 -0400
From: "Bethany K. Dumas" dumasb[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UTK.EDU
Subject: good story re /mVt/(fwd)
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Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 17:03:11 -0700
From: Alan Harrison j9470388[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]wlv.ac.uk
Which reminds me of the tale of the man walking down the canal bank (the
cut-bonk in the vernacular), when he sees a child crying (blartin' in
the vernacular). Says the would-be Good Samaritan, "Why'm yoh blartin',
son?"
The child responds, "Me mate's fell in the cut." At this, our hero tears
off his jacket and boots and dives into the not exactly limpid waters of
the Birmingham Canal Navigation. He finds the usual stuff, old bike
frames, dead dogs, etcetera, but no drowning child. Coming up,
spluttering, he asks, "Wheer exackly did 'e fall in the cut?" At this
point the penny drops with the child, who has stopped crying and is
gazing at the rescuer in amazement: "Naow, mate, not that sort o' mate -
the mate off me sandwich."
Alan Harrison