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<blockquote data-quote="Roy_H" data-source="post: 4733418" data-attributes="member: 44604"><p>Just a few days before our farm sale My aunt came running into the yard looking very flustered and confused and she greeted me with the words "There's a man on the phone, I think he's Irish, I can't understand him, please would you come and have a word with him? ( When I picked up the phone I think the conversation started with "Well hello dere, its a long distance call from Ireland, I'm ringing to ask you about a couple of yer tractors yer selling in yer farm sale ") But the problem was that every time I tried to answer one of his questions (I had no trouble understanding <em>his</em> strong Irish accent by the way) he would reply " Er...what was dat dat you say?" <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/scratchhead.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":scratchhead:" title="Scratchead :scratchhead:" data-shortname=":scratchhead:" />, in other words he could not understand ME, in fact no matter how slowly and clearly I tried to speak with him I kept getting the same reply "What was dat dat you say?"<img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/scratchhead.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":scratchhead:" title="Scratchead :scratchhead:" data-shortname=":scratchhead:" />. So I thought "Sod it, here goes nothing" and I began to converse with him in the bestest "Father Ted" type Irish accent that I could muster ,( "Well now, I tells yer what, you'd better get yerself over here and have yerself a little bit of a look!" You know the sort of thing) I thought "OK if he is insulted and slams the phone down on me, so what, we aren't getting anywhere with this conversation anyway" Well well well, we had a right old natter after that, in fact he even jumped on the ferry and came to the sale (Whether he actually bought anything I can't honestly remember) What I do remember is when I had finished talking to him on the phone I found my aunt sitting on the sofa with a bright red face and with tears rolling down her cheeks with laughter ! She had overheard every word of the conversation : "I<em> just don't know</em> how you had the nerve to do that !" she said <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite20" alt=":ROFLMAO:" title="ROFL :ROFLMAO:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":ROFLMAO:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Roy_H, post: 4733418, member: 44604"] Just a few days before our farm sale My aunt came running into the yard looking very flustered and confused and she greeted me with the words "There's a man on the phone, I think he's Irish, I can't understand him, please would you come and have a word with him? ( When I picked up the phone I think the conversation started with "Well hello dere, its a long distance call from Ireland, I'm ringing to ask you about a couple of yer tractors yer selling in yer farm sale ") But the problem was that every time I tried to answer one of his questions (I had no trouble understanding [I]his[/I] strong Irish accent by the way) he would reply " Er...what was dat dat you say?" :scratchhead:, in other words he could not understand ME, in fact no matter how slowly and clearly I tried to speak with him I kept getting the same reply "What was dat dat you say?":scratchhead:. So I thought "Sod it, here goes nothing" and I began to converse with him in the bestest "Father Ted" type Irish accent that I could muster ,( "Well now, I tells yer what, you'd better get yerself over here and have yerself a little bit of a look!" You know the sort of thing) I thought "OK if he is insulted and slams the phone down on me, so what, we aren't getting anywhere with this conversation anyway" Well well well, we had a right old natter after that, in fact he even jumped on the ferry and came to the sale (Whether he actually bought anything I can't honestly remember) What I do remember is when I had finished talking to him on the phone I found my aunt sitting on the sofa with a bright red face and with tears rolling down her cheeks with laughter ! She had overheard every word of the conversation : "I[I] just don't know[/I] how you had the nerve to do that !" she said :ROFLMAO: [/QUOTE]
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