Klarinet Archive - Posting 000301.txt from 2004/03

From: ormondtoby@------.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] English and American
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 11:07:52 -0500

Fred Wilson wrote:

> amusing incidents when certain British
> expressions are used.

When my daughter was an exchange student in London, she pushed away from
the dinner table after eating a large meal with lots of potatoes, and
she declared: "I am stuffed!" The horrified exchange parents feared
(for a moment) that they had inherited a pregnant teenager who would
deliver while in their care.