I think a good joke will make a day..
There we are:
THREE WOMEN, TWO YOUNGER, AND ONE SENIOR CITIZEN, WERE SITTING NAKED IN A SAUNA.

SUDDENLY THERE WAS A BEEPING SOUND. THE YOUNG WOMAN PRESSED HER FOREARM AND THE
BEEP STOPPED.

THE OTHERS LOOKED AT HER QUESTIONINGLY. 'THAT WAS MY PAGER,' SHE SAID. I HAVE A MICROCHIP UNDER THE SKIN OF MY ARM.

A FEW MINUTES LATER, A PHONE RANG. THE SECOND YOUNG WOMAN LIFTED HER PALM TO HER EAR.

WHEN SHE FINISHED, SHE EXPLAINED, 'THAT WAS MY MOBILE PHONE. I HAVE A MICROCHIP IN MY HAND.'

THE OLDER WOMAN FELT VERY LOW -TECH. NOT TO BE OUT DONE, SHE DECIDED SHE HAD TO DO SOMETHING JUST AS IMPRESSIVE. SHE STEPPED OUT OF THE SAUNA AND WENT TO THE BATHROOM.

SHE RETURNED WITH A PIECE OF TOILET PAPER HANGING FROM HER REAR END.

THE OTHERS RAISED THEIR EYEBROWS AND STARED AT HER.

THE OLDER WOMAN FINALLY SAID ..... WELL, WILL YOU LOOK AT THAT ..... I'M GETTING A
FAX!!

With our women it is impossible to be honest...)))

Dear Mila
Thank you for the very interesting explanation. I listen to You, "with opened mouth")

Hi again!
It's rather an interesting grammar point, with those "open/opened", "welcome/welcomed","close/closed"

There are some verbs that have adjectival forms that look exactly like the verb form. "open" and "welcome" are two examples.

Adjective
The door is open.
You are welcome.

Verb
They open up at 6:00.
We welcome you to the family.

If a verb already has an adjectival form, then there's no need to use its past participle as an adjective.

e.g.
"This bottle is open"
"This door has been open"

"open" functions as an adjective;
e.g., the door has been open since this morning, "open" describes the state of the door.

If it were, say, "This door has been opened", then "opened" functions as a past participle, as part of the verb, and it tells us that someone has opened the door.
***
We're open.
You're welcome.
I felt welcome.

Hope this will help!;-)

Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch? ...

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are

A friend in NEED is a friend indeed....)))

Happy Easter to all!
More about it asa well as British culture here:
http://www.woodlands-junior.ke ...

I like that:
"No matter how big the sea may be, sometimes two ships meet"...

It's being said: they have avoided like two tractors in the sea.

Hi to all brushuppers!
Have never seen any tractors in the sea....perhaps only on the sea bed.....)))

If you would like to know more about Big wedding, you can probably read and see the pictures in the link provided:
http://royal.uk.msn.com/wedding/

It's a topic for a little princesses. Not for adult pilots I guess. :-)

which one is correct?
a topic for little pincesses
a topic for a little princesses

The first one is correct. :-)
BTW the father of a bride is a pilot an mother is a stewardess.

MSL
BTW That is the only reason why I have mentioned about the wedding on this aviation forum...;-)
She is 100% aviation background!

My apologises

Just in case you weren't feeling too old today:
The people who are starting college this fall were born in 1991.
They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up.
Their lifetime has always included AIDS.
The CD was introduced two years before they were born.
They have always had an answering machine.
They have always had cable.
Popcorn has always been microwaved.
They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.
They never heard, "Where's the Beef?", "I'd walk a mile for a Camel ," or "de plane, Boss, de plane."
They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter.

P.S. Save the earth. It's the only planet with chocolate. )))

a bit of gossip so far
1.
"Prince William cracked a joke to his father-in-law at the altar before the ceremony, saying: "We're supposed to have just a small family affair", a lipreader has claimed.

The joke by William to Mr Middleton in Westminster Abbey was spotted by Tina Lannin, lipreader for O'Malley Communications.

She also spotted Prince Harry nervously comment "Right, she is here now", as Miss Middleton arrived at the abbey.

Ms Lannin, who has been deaf all her life, relies on lipreading to communicate and can lipread in Arabic, Spanish, German and Japanese, as well as English.

She works as a careers consultant and is also a forensic lipreader, reading CCTV and other media where sound is absent"

2.
The black horse threw its rider shortly after the royal procession left the abbey and galloped past the carriage as it passed the entrance to Downing Street.

It is understood that the animal managed to make its way back to its barracks in Hyde Park by itself.

Neither the horse nor the soldier was injured, although a source said: "The rider's pride was probably a little bit hurt."

"The horse and rider have returned to the barracks and are unharmed."

A horse also got spooked by the crowd noise and bolted after the wedding of William's parents, Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1981.

It's an early morning rain today...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ...

and another, popular right now...a bit too sweet, however, but very gentle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ...
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a nice one but with lots of misprints in the subtitles. get ready for tricky questions:)

Inna, I am afraid that the author of those either lyrics or subtitles was cold and drunk...)))so, I am unable to make any corrections, otherewise infringment of "All rights reserved" could be applied...(((

correction
infringEment..

It's a Jumbo-jet taking-off on the slide. Not 707. As for the lyrics, I have seriously stumbled only at "And the women are were fast". It came to me by the "voice channel" like they ALL were fast. Otherwise I can't understand the grammar. Perhaps cause I'm not drunk enough :-)
On the whole I liked the mood that song induced on me. It can be a substitute for a glass of liquor :-)

relaxed, laid-back attitude we lack :)

"a" relaxed attitude:)

Hello brushuppers!
2 years ago this thread started....)))

Sorry I'm late. Was flying. My congratulations.

Mila, congrats on such a fruitful thread!!!
"Be fruitful and multiply" (с)

:)

Hello to all!
Many thanks to MSL and Inna...nice to know that we are still going UP!))))))

“What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now." ~Buddha

Hi, Inna!
Pearls of wisdom...Oh,I love them. Many thanks...)

Brush up your pronunciation:-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ...

Hi MSL!
Peter pickled pepper - was one of my first and easiest among them. Woodchuck is tricky one, never heard before...)))
Any luck?;-)

Hi Mila! I'm ok.
Woodchuck came to me in an easier way :-)

Nice to hear from you, MSL, you have certainly advanced!...Very soon I will be in the position of catching up with you all...)))

Woodchuck is tricky one...
Is this part correct?

MSL, your tongue twisters drive me bananas:)))))))))))))

Inna, you are not alone!Me too...)))))

as for Peter Piper it's a classic from SO many years ago:)))I did this one as a student, and I loved it. I've met a friend of mine recently, he's in his late fifties and used to study English at the same University, Peter Pipe twister was the first thing that came to his mind:)

Yes, that's it! I learned it even earlier, at school.))))

"aspiration" is the key word :)

Sorry if I spoiled your day. Those tt's appeared to me funny. Cause I haven't graduated a linguistic university, maybe. :-)

you've made my day, MSL:)

Ok, then one more for completion. English version of "Шла Саша по шоссе"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ...

I know this one!!! But the one I did was a shorter version


She sells sea shells on the sea shore;
The shells that she sells are sea shells I'm sure.
So if she sells sea shells on the sea shore,
I'm sure that the shells are sea shore shells.

BTW the latest one is closest to my present activity :-) Yet I don't sell the see shells ;-)

Correction: sea shells