An Order Gone Wrong
I first read this in 1966 and almost wet myself laughing. Now recently I stumbled across it again on the internet and thought I’d share it with you. Good old fashioned humour not riddled with F-words to gain effect.Hans Gruber,
Wihelmstrasse,
Hamburg,
Germany.
Der last schipment uf rice ve got von you on der schip vas mixt mit der mice schit. Der rice vas gut enuff but der mice turds schpoils der trade. Ve did not see der mice schit in der samples you sent us.
It takes too much time to pick der mice turds from der rice. Ve order kleen rice, und you schip der schit mitt der rice. Ve like you to ship us der rice in vun sack, und der mice schit in anoder sack, und den ve vill mix it to soot der customer.
Please write if ve should schip back der schit und keep der rice, or keep der schidt und schip back der rice, or schip back der whole schitten verks.
Mitt much respects,
Hans Gruber.
Friendly Sunday greetings from an overcast Cape Town
Comments (47)
wonder if before christmas, a christmas surprise.
suppose the crime must fit the punishment.
Friendly Sunday greetings from miss iyer.....
I'm at my sister for my regular Sunday date. Looking at that food on your blog just made hungry before the time. I can only home the rice that my sister is cooking came with a different schipment.
When I was a toddler my grandmother used to give me the rice to sort. Those days rice came out a hessian bags and was weighed by the shopkeeper.
And now I wonder what those little black things were that I had to remove from the rice.
Traurig, nicht für finger gepoken oder gearbeiten by die domkopfen und Amerikaner.
A great Sunday to you. Don't worry about the rice. We added a bit of bleach when we cooked it. It is all white now.
Zu befehl, SS Standarten Führer.
Cat. Do you mean this kind of rice?
I think we can now safely substitute the term BS with MS.
Have lovely Sunday cat
I hear the pigs are immigrating into Palestine en masse. Apparently it had become a very save destination. And as they move into a neighborhood the other residents move out; making place for more pigs. And these pigs don't even wear uniform. Must be detectives!
And this is neither BS, MS nor PS.
an tella flucking gleek not fliday today!
Have you had your Sunday dinner yet
A secret coded message for the CIA. You won't understand and if you do it is best to pretend you don't. Those guys are very unpredictable since the KGB went out of business.
Yes I had eaten and I'm back home now. Don't worry about it. I forgot to take my little pink pills this morning. But don't be upset with me; I cannot help if the little voices only talk to me.
I wish I had a whisperer
No only having fun I am fine looking forward to crimble this year
this is n odd lot I have.
The argue with each other and give me conflicting orders.
I tried but they are so many and I end up sozzled iso them.
See this is how ghettos are formed. And the are as safe as only a pig can be in Palestine.
I enjoyed this.
I'm glad you enjoyed it
When I read it again after about 45 years I enjoyed it as much as then.
I have decided to replace rice with stywepap for a while.
keep it white and keep it right...good motto
yes here in the Cape it is not so [popular but I like it from time to time. When you can get somebody who can make it properly.