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PostPosted: Tue Mar 25, 2025 1:15 pm    Post subject: Re: what happens twice in a week and once in a year? Reply with quote

Not an answer to Skills current question but as I was born poor, I know the answer but will let someone else guess it.

Here is a bit of linguistic humour in the meantime:

A German buddy I worked with in Japan back in the late 90s shared this at the time when he found out I was a VW enthusiast and I found it funny.

"Directors at Daimler Benz and Chrysler have announced an agreement to adopt English as the preferred language for communications, rather than German, which was another possibility.

As part of the negotiations, directors at Chrysler conceded that English spelling has some room for improvement and have accepted a five-year phase-in plan. In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". Also, the hard "c" will be replased with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but komputers have one less letter.

There will be growing kompany enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replased by "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20 persent shorter.

In the third year, DaimlerKhrysler akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reash the stage where more komplikated shanges are possible.

DaimlerKhrysler will enkourage the removal of double letters, whish have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"'s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps sush as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" by "v".

During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be droped from vords kontaining "o", and similar shanges vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis, and employes vil find it ezi to kommunikat viz eash ozer.

Ov kors al supliers vil be expekted to us zis for all busines komunikation via DaimlerKhrysler.

Ze drem vil finali kum tru."
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 25, 2025 2:52 pm    Post subject: Re: what happens twice in a week and once in a year? Reply with quote

Haha that's hilarious.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 25, 2025 5:46 pm    Post subject: Re: what happens twice in a week and once in a year? Reply with quote

hobthebob wrote:
Haha that's hilarious.


I agree Laughing that was a good read

Shonandb wrote:
Not an answer to Skills current question but as I was born poor, I know the answer but will let someone else guess it.


same here, guess us poors know the joke....

I'll give it till tomorrow and see if someone gets it before I post the answer
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Thanks for the correction. I used to be a nice guy, then I ruined it by exposing myself to the public.

Brian wrote:
Also the fact that people are agreeing with Skills, it's a turn of events for samba history
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 25, 2025 5:55 pm    Post subject: Re: what happens twice in a week and once in a year? Reply with quote

zerotofifty wrote:
What word has three pairs of consecutive letters? This is a different question than the prior one.

Good luck


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2025 7:41 am    Post subject: Re: what happens twice in a week and once in a year? Reply with quote

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skills@eurocarsplus wrote:
poor people have it, rich people need it and if you eat it, you'll die.

What is it?

Nothing.

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2025 9:34 am    Post subject: Re: what happens twice in a week and once in a year? Reply with quote

RUNKLE wrote:
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skills@eurocarsplus wrote:
poor people have it, rich people need it and if you eat it, you'll die.

What is it?

Nothing.

.



WINNER!

you get...nothing Laughing
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gprudenciop wrote:

my reason for switching to subaru is my german car was turning chinese so i said fuck it and went japanese.......
[email protected] wrote:
most VW enthusiasts are stuck in 80's price land.

Jake Raby wrote:
Thanks for the correction. I used to be a nice guy, then I ruined it by exposing myself to the public.

Brian wrote:
Also the fact that people are agreeing with Skills, it's a turn of events for samba history
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 27, 2025 1:39 pm    Post subject: Re: what happens twice in a week and once in a year? Reply with quote

Shonandb post -

Mark Tucker approved ... !

Good stuff ... stay safe

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 28, 2025 8:12 am    Post subject: Re: what happens twice in a week and once in a year? Reply with quote

skills@eurocarsplus wrote:
RUNKLE wrote:
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skills@eurocarsplus wrote:
poor people have it, rich people need it and if you eat it, you'll die.

What is it?

Nothing.

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WINNER!

you get...nothing Laughing


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