S: Hey, I learnt the Spanish word for "idiot".
G: That is?
S: Tonto. Tonto! Hugo Chávez says Mr Bush is a tonto.
G: Tonti is nicer. Tonti is a small tonto.
N: Isn't Tonto the Lone Ranger's horse?
G: Tonto's the Indian. Politically incorrectness from before my time.
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S: Finnish monsters won the Eurovision contest.
A: Doubt if they donned monster suits.
S: 'course not, they're all like that in real life. At Nokia too.
A: Clever trolls and elves1 make our phones.
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S1: So you place your sandwich on the dead body. It absorbs sin. Osmosis.
S2: How long before it soaks up the sin?
S1: Don't know. Villagers pay you to eat it. You won't be popular though.
A: Sin eating2 sounds like a good job!
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S: Are you allowed to do the 2-finger salute at police officers?
D: Nope.
A: I thought it's OK if you're polite. Just don't sound threatening.
S: Yeah, I'd use "please" and "thank you".
D: Nope. Musn't touch an officer either. It's criminal assault.
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1 Penguins too. A brilliant but suicidal lot.
2 Sin eating is a cardinal sin, by the way. Catholics be warned.
