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.

 

 

[Svenja Wahl]

You made me laugh, Dean :-))), great work and great blog, thanks to both of you!!