Subj : Re: Fish license question
To   : nemo
From : Waldo Centini
Date : Sat Jul 22 2006 12:02 am

From: Waldo Centini <waldoREMOVESPAMcentini@zonnet.nl>

nemo surprised us with

>> > Was there a real person named Sir Gerald Nabardo?
>> > He was mentioned as a person who had an unusual pet.
>> >
>> Sir Gerald Nabardo eine Haustiergarnele hat, die Simon?
>>
>>
> Does that mean moustache? He had a whopper and he was a Member of
> Parliament.
>
>

Nope. The joke was: Sir Gerald Nabarro has a pet prawn called Simon. The rough 
translation in German (and I mean very rough!) was incorrect, and should be: 
Sir Gerald Nabarro hat einen Garnele als Haustier, Simon genannt.

There.

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Waldo

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