Urban Dictionary, under its definition of 'Letchworth', included this example phrasing: "Wow, look at that the world's first roundabout in Letchworth." "Yeah, interesting isn't it? Shall we get the **** out of here now?" "Yes, let's."
Three women die together in an accident and go to heaven... When they get there, St. Peter says, "We only have one rule here in heaven: don’t step on the ducks!" So they enter heaven, and sure enough, there are ducks everywhere. It’s almost impossible not to step on one. Despite their best efforts, the first woman accidentally steps on a duck. Along comes St. Peter with the ugliest man she’s ever seen. He chains them together and says, "Your punishment for stepping on a duck is to spend eternity chained to this man!" The next day, the second woman accidentally steps on a duck. St. Peter arrives, again with another extremely ugly man, and chains them together with the same warning. The third woman, seeing what’s happened to her friends, is determined to never step on a duck. She manages to go months without incident. Then one day, St. Peter comes up to her… with the most handsome man she has ever seen. Tall, built, gorgeous — movie-star material. Without saying a word, St. Peter chains them together and walks away. Overwhelmed, the woman says, “I don’t know what I did to deserve this!” The man replies, “I don’t know about you, but I stepped on a duck.”
A Spanish language teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish, unlike English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine. "House" for instance, is feminine: "la casa." "Pencil," however, is masculine: "el lapiz." A student asked, "What gender is 'Computer'?" Instead of giving the answer, the teacher divided the class into two groups, Male and Female, and asked them to decide for themselves whether "Computer" should be a masculine or a feminine noun. Each group was asked to give four reasons for its recommendation. The men's group decided that "Computer" should definitely be of the feminine gender ("la computadora"), because: 1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic; 2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else; 3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for possible later retrieval; and 4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck to buy accessories for it. The women's group, however, concluded that computers should be masculine ("el computador"), because: 1. In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on; 2. They have a lot of data but still can't think for themselves; 3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they ARE the problem; and 4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had waited a little longer, you could have gotten a better model. The women won.
