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作者：芦笛 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
Yesterday afternoon we had a meeting and the news broken by the big head really
broke my heart.
For the past two years, the institution where I work has been experiencing financial
difficulties. Now it’s in serious financial crises. The big head announced at the meeting
that either this place would be closed down, or at least a large proportion of staff would
be laid off.
So in order to play safe, I’ll have to look for a post elsewhere at this age! Can you think
of something worse than that? Who’s going to hire an old sod that is to retire in a few
years? Perhaps I should give it a serious thought to become a professional writer NOW.
At any rate, it does not seem likely that I keep writing here and produce at least one piece
per day. It is more likely that I post up one or two pieces per week. One thing is for sure:
I am going to finish the novel “Suibian’s Sky” before I disappear altogether.
Taking this opportunity, I would like to apologize to ~浴火凤凰 as I referred to him as
“smart ass” yesterday. This is certainly an insult and I regret this uncouth behavior.
Nonetheless, please allow me to explain that this is not a swear word as both he and
banzhu 02 firmly believed.
The confusion arose only because those guys learnt English in the USA, where “ass”
means either “bottom” or “donkey”. In contrast, in Britain, “ass” means “donkey”, nothing
else, while another name of “backside” is “arse”. In British English, the pronunciations
of both “ass” and “arse” are identical but the spellings are different, whereas in the USA,
their pronunciations and spellings are just the same.
Actually, the word “ass” (donkey) is used to describe a stupid person in both countries.
“Smart ass”, as I said above, is not a swear word at all. People just use it to call those
who are not terribly clever but extremely keen to show off their smartness. In effect, it is
similar to “smart fool”.
But of course this is not the excuse for me to use that very impolite word to insult ~浴火凤凰.
Therefore, I would like to apologize to him once again.
I would like 鬼谷子 to confirm whether he still wants to bet. Let me repeat the condition
once more: If you bet Chen Shuibian is to win the election, then if he loses, you will have
to send £100 to Langxie. If you win, then I will send the same amount of money to Langxie.
It’s up to you whether to bet or not, but I have to remind you that if you withdraw now,
nobody will take the bet, so I will send no money to anyone even if Chen wins the election.
Do you understand? If you do, please leave an unambiguous message here. After all,
£100 is not a huge fortune and even a guy facing lay-off like me can still afford it, is it?
Finally, I would also like to apologize to you for calling you “great grand-nephew” in retaliation
to your calling me “nephew”. We are older than 50 and yet we behave just like kids,
which is really, really incredible, ridiculous and stupid.
作者：芦笛 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org |
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- I hope you lucky(Ich wunsche dir alles gut!) -- 子邮 - (0 Byte) 2004-3-12 周五, 下午11:59 (145 reads)
- 网友慰驴－海川拾珠之五 -- 邋遢道士 - (1066 Byte) 2004-3-12 周五, 下午10:06 (168 reads)
- 哥们，咱有一个馊主意 -- 万年一笑 - (52 Byte) 2004-3-12 周五, 上午3:47 (251 reads)
- 老芦，岂不闻“车到山前必有路”？更何况，你离山还远着呢：） -- 锺 舟 - (0 Byte) 2004-3-12 周五, 上午3:23 (147 reads)
- 几点建议 -- 润涛阎 - (274 Byte) 2004-3-12 周五, 上午3:17 (302 reads)
- 老芦不用着急，第一裁员不一定轮到你，第二即使裁了也还有别的地方可去 -- 安魂曲 - (0 Byte) 2004-3-12 周五, 上午2:52 (147 reads)
- 好好休整一下。 -- 偷笑 - (49 Byte) 2004-3-12 周五, 上午1:33 (194 reads)
- My theory is ... -- 一本正经 - (542 Byte) 2004-3-12 周五, 上午12:45 (231 reads)
- Hope LaoLu will be better and future will be smooth after the trouble -- czlly - (0 Byte) 2004-3-11 周四, 下午11:54 (145 reads)
- 老芦不要太担心,换个工作,也许更好. -- 然然 - (8 Byte) 2004-3-11 周四, 下午11:38 (174 reads)
- 虽然这两天想在网上触一下你的霉头，但是现实生活中还是希望你能一切顺利 -- ~浴火凤凰 - (94 Byte) 2004-3-11 周四, 下午11:18 (235 reads)
- sorry to hear that. 新思维 -- weizhi - (208 Byte) 2004-3-11 周四, 下午10:58 (205 reads)
- 凭老芦的才能，没神马人或事拦得住他的。 -- 邋遢道士 - (177 Byte) 2004-3-11 周四, 下午10:24 (216 reads)
- 老芦，这没准是你改为自由职业的一个契机呢 -- konami - (216 Byte) 2004-3-11 周四, 下午9:44 (255 reads)
- 为今之计，只有骑驴找马，双管齐下 -- 随便 - (94 Byte) 2004-3-11 周四, 下午9:06 (250 reads)
- It’s not the national disaster, nor is it the end of the world. -- 一本正经 - (1089 Byte) 2004-3-11 周四, 下午8:57 (201 reads)
- 祝老芦好运！人在美国，饭碗第一 -- 五骆驼 - (261 Byte) 2004-3-11 周四, 下午8:18 (261 reads)
- 芦老：车到山前必有路! 我到有个建议可供您参考！请来E，[email protected] -- 邢国鑫 - (0 Byte) 2004-3-11 周四, 下午8:07 (160 reads)
- I am so sorry to hear that. I was layoff for 5 months. -- 2u2m - (268 Byte) 2004-3-11 周四, 下午7:54 (340 reads)
- 老芦放宽心 -- 狼协 - (88 Byte) 2004-3-11 周四, 下午8:12 (301 reads)
- 老芦，饭碗要紧，别在这耽误时间与人打架磨牙 -- 插言 - (0 Byte) 2004-3-11 周四, 下午7:38 (154 reads)
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