How others see the Thames

[boatone]

News story in the Washington Post

The Thames is Britain’s best-known river, immortalized in the novels of Charles Dickens, and a waterway once so putrid that it shut Parliament because of its stench. It’s now getting the Olympics treatment because of its potential to give would-be terrorists a foothold.

The Thames is a less than enticing vantage point for the Olympics — even for would-be attackers.

Although it has been cleaned up since the “Great Stink” of 1858 that forced the House of Commons to stay at home, its muddy reputation precedes itself. Comedian David Walliams battled diarrhea after doing a charity swim along the River Thames last year.

The journey is almost seven times the distance of the English Channel and is associated with the Victorian era novels of Dickens, such as “Bleak House.”

 

[No Regrets]

While America is a filthy land inhabited by Buffalo eating Red Indians, and Gun toting inbreds, right?

Septics are not, generally a clever type

 

[watson1959]

While America is a filthy land inhabited by Buffalo eating Red Indians, and Gun toting inbreds, right?

Septics are not, generally a clever type

b b b but I thought Buffalo ate grasses....not Indians

Agree with the rest

 

[No Regrets]

Most of them ate the dust according to my history books

 

[Captain Coochie]

From a French newspaper

Le Thames is errrrrrrrrr ow you say , errr ok and nice i tink but errrrrr there is a no regrets man and he is errrrrrrrrrrr ow you say errrrrrrrrrrrr he keep calling me le france cockeral and errrr i non like itttt errrrr .
All the other errrrrrrrrr ow you say errrrrrr le old people errrrrr they non likey le word errrrrrrrr and non funnie but i will drink my wine and errrrrr relax .

 

[watson1959]

From a French newspaper
Le Thames is errrrrrrrrr ow you say , errr ok and nice i tink but errrrrr there is a no regrets man and he is errrrrrrrrrrr ow you say errrrrrrrrrrrr he keep calling me le france cockeral and errrr i non like itttt errrrr .
All the other errrrrrrrrr ow you say errrrrrr le old people errrrrr they non likey le word errrrrrrrr and non funnie but i will drink my wine and errrrrr relax .

zees eez ow you say.......so freeky good.....zees coochie man ee as ze baist frainch accent I 'ave 'eard in so long

 

[No Regrets]

Eez a beet of a...oww you say....wankeerrrr een eengleesh n'est ce pas?

I theenk he errrrrrrr.....looks larke ze bully boys deengle dangle

burt ah lurve heem

 

[No Regrets]

bah ze way, watch for ze moderateurs eh?

 

[watson1959]

ah cannot sink zat ze modérateurs weel faind zis objectionable......but zen again we are tkaeen ze peess out of ze floppy-'atted garlick-cruncheurs and so perrrhaps zis is not so good.....

 

[No Regrets]

Maybe zey do nurt speak ze Francais?

 

[watson1959]

Maybe zey do nurt speak ze Francais?

ah ha! zat must be ze raison, Pas De Regrettes, eet is elementaire, mon cher

 

[No Regrets]

Noooon....Je ne regret rien.....nooooon rien de rien....beaucoup de Coques....dans la foruuuum.....mais je poster le piques.....et les moderateurs fair rieaaaaaaannnnn...

 

[watson1959]

Noooon....Je ne regret rien.....nooooon rien de rien....beaucoup de Coques....dans la foruuuum.....mais je poster le piques.....et les moderateurs fair rieaaaaaaannnnn...

eet is not posseeble for me to comment....