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22 June 2009

Don't Shoot - Those Drugs Aren't Mine

I have found a new Vietnamese language course on the iPod. It's called the World Nomads [sic] Vietnamese Language Guide and I can only find the one lesson.

The first lesson zips along quite well until, out of the blue, at 11 minutes and 54 seconds, they teach you how to say "Don't shoot - those drugs aren't mine."

I kid you not.

Then for the remaining 2 minutes and 15 seconds they teach you to count to ten.

Shouldn't the police be suspicious if you have rote learnt to deny the drugs before you can say anything else? It would sound wooden, like those terrible child actors they used to use in A Country Practice.

I think I'm starting to like this woman

First this:


And then this:

"I've known Susan all her life," said David Stein, the village butcher. "We know what Susan can do verbally; she can be pretty rough on you. When she loses it, she loses it rough style."