Happy St. Valentine's from Marie Wintzer, well not really, but close! Random fallen words or as the page turns?

[Dean aka Artist in Seine]

AH those French ladies know how to use the English language to their advantage.  This reminds me of a very funny event.  Once I went to a swimming pool in England and saw a sign that said "No Heavy Petting in the Pool", and for the life of me could not understand what it meant.  I asked a lady in the pool what the sign meant, and she slaps me across the face.  “Wise guy”, she said, and did the breast stroke to the other side of the pool, and told the life guard to keep an eye on me.  I really thought that there was a misspelling, and it should read; No Heavy Peeing in the Pool.  I thought the English were clever and maybe allow light peeing in the pool.  Or at least in one corner of the pool.

Later I found out what it meant, but I still can not believe that there was so much petting in UK pools that they actually had to make a sign to make people stop!  What is it with British people that if you put them in water, they get an urge to fondle each other?  This must explain why there are fewer swimming pools in backyards of UK home than in America!

Val can maybe enlighten us on the phoneme. 

Thank you very much Marie, at least the thought was there!  The balding middle-aged man part is too close for confort.

 

 

[Emmy Verschoor]

Hi Nancy, it made me hysterical too, I am laughing out loud here on my own, this is too funny!

Marie's card is wonderful and funny too!

[Nancy Bell Scott]

This blog about made me hysterical. Dean's story is TOO funny, and I love Marie's piece--for some reason especially "and there goes everything" and "it didn't make sense."

[Amy Irwen]

HAHAHA! NIIIIICCCCEE...

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[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

And thank you, Dean...(hijacking going on here ;-) for the air balloon that arrived today, Valentine's Day with a "heart" French postage stamp! So LOVEly

....By the way...is Dean heavy-petting that...whatever that is? ;-)

"Something is strange on the vine!"

[De Villo Sloan]

tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE - the hanging dogs!

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

today! (what's that today1 ?????)

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

Heavy petting is what Valentine has to do for Trouble...and Bianca (his kit kats)

Great art, Marie and great blog, Dean!

'Tis "LOVE" Day today1 Happy, happy! xxx

[De Villo Sloan]

[Emmy Verschoor]

hhahahahahahaha, you are funny, Dean and Val!!!

I see heavy pets in a pool!!

 

[Valentine Mark Herman]

Marie -- Svenja too, if you like -- come here and I'll show you.

'Heavy petting' is NOT about fodling. What it means is that you are forbidden to bring your heavy pets -- like elephants and rhinos -- to the pool.

In the North East of England, from where I come, there are several affectionate terms for women of all ages -- one is 'love' (pronounved 'luv'), another is 'duck', a third is 'sweetheart', and a fourth is...'pet'. (I think it is short for petal).

An affectionate greetings for men is 'wotcha cock';

And on that I say tar-ra;
Val