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Reminds of the Victor Borge story about his uncle who arrived in the US from the old country and tried to market a fizzy drink called "One-Up"..................

My mate just hired an Eastern European cleaner, took her 15 hours to hoover the house. Turns out she was a Slovak.

Is there ever a day that mattresses are not on sale?

IT'S ALL IN THE PUNCTUATION

A Professor of English wrote the following sentence

"A woman without her man is nothing".

on the blackboard and asked his students to punctuate it.

All the men in the class wrote as follows.......

"A woman, without her man, is nothing"

Whereas all the women wrote.......

"A woman: without her, a man is nothing"

I like it!

Hi elle
Should I point out that the women had (unnecessarily) to add a word?

Typo, Chris! I erroneously put in an extra 'a'.
It should, of course , have read...
"A woman: without her, man is nothing" !

Yes - I did say "unnecessarily".

Preparations A*** didn't get past the Marketing dept.

Preparations A*** didn't get past the Marketing dept.

That was meant to be singular - Preparation A***.

I was trying other "formulations". (-;