English as She Is Spoke (Entry 414.GE1107)
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🗓️ 11 March 2021
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In which an inept attempt at a Portuguese-English phrasebook becomes an enduring comedy classic, and John celebrates the invention of the stirrup. Certificate #29469.
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| 0:46.1 | only assume is your distant past, the turbulent time that was the early 21st century. |
| 0:51.5 | Fearing the great cataclysm that will surely befall our civilization, we began this |
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| 1:15.0 | This is the omnibus. Oh, You have accessed entry 414. |
| 1:45.0 | G.E.110, certificate number 29469. |
| 1:55.0 | English as she is spoke. |
| 1:59.0 | My hovercraft is full of eels. |
| 2:01.0 | What? My hovercraft is full of eills. I think I've mentioned it before but you know that my band |
| 2:08.0 | named The Long Winters, although it seems like very apropos given that I grew up in Alaska and that we live here in the northwest a place |
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