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Old 07-20-10, 10:04 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by frau kaleun View Post
He also found out right quick after arriving that calling someone a "booger" was not quite the same thing in London as it was back home.
I once was sharing the 'differences' with some people I worked with, when one woman asked me a question. She said she and her husband had been on a cruise ship and some English travellers suddenly gave her a strange look. She was still trying to figure out what she'd said to offend them, so she innocently asked me:

"Do you know what 'bugger' means?"
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