A têtê-a-têtê

"The three sadest words in English language, Lovejoy: beer or cider?"

Tinker Dill in Lovejoy

By Bean & Crumpet

Was it really worth nothing?

This autumn colored picture of our lilic somehow suggests Claude Monet..

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Tämä syksyn värittämä kuva syreenistämme tuo jostain syystä mieleen Claude Monet'n..

By Bean & Crumpet

Cor lumme, stone the crows!

Bean on his sick bed:

"There's a strange smell coming from somewhere. Or is it just me?"

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Papu sairasvuoteellaan:

"Jostain tuli outo haju. Vai olenko se vain minä?"

By Bean & Crumpet

In a lump sum?

When a Finn asks another Finn about their vacation, they start with the most important fact, which is:

"How was the weather like?"

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Kun suomalainen kysyy toiselta suomalaiselta tämän lomasta, aloittaa hän kysymällä tärkeimmästä eli:

"Millaiset säät oli?"

By Bean & Crumpet

I mean, consider the facts

"These days it seems people will do almost anything to get on television. Stand behind news reporters mouthing: 'Hello mum'. Deliberately buy yoghurt past by it sell-by date, so they can complain to Ann Robinson. Or video their pets being knocked unconscious by garden swings, in the hope the producer of You've been framed will believe it to be spontanious. Fame is the spur. But fame, as we shall see, is like oven-ready frozen meal for one: not as nice as it looks."

Inspector Raymond Fowler in The Thin Blue Line

By Bean & Crumpet

I failed to do it

Young American woman to another on the street.

1: "Why did you choose art?"

2: "I have no idea."

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Nuori amerikkalainen nainen toiselle kadulla.

1: "Miksi sä valisit taiteen?"

2: "Mulla ei ole aavistustakaan."

By Bean & Crumpet

Well, everybody enjoys a good fire, of course

We've made a new acquientance in Paris, a street artist Above (of whom Just Another American in Paris also writes about)..

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Tämäkertaisen Pariisin matkamme uusi tuttavuus, katutaiteilija Above (josta muuten sattumalta kirjoittaa myös Just Another American in Paris)..

By Bean &Crumpet

This was no time for side issues

We visited the most famous necropoli of Paris, Père Lachaise, on a crispy autumn day..

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Vierailimme Pariisin kuuluisimmalla nekropolilla, Père-Lachaisella, kirpeänä syyspäivänä..

By Bean & Crumpet

You can't get away with that

The raffle for the person sitting next to you on an aeroplane.

Top prize: a person, that constantly scraches her head or her face, or digs her mouth or her nose with her fingers, filling the rest of the time coughing her lungs of, without a hand in front of her mounth.

Winners: Bean & Crumpet
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Lentokoneen vierustoverin arvonta.

Pääpalkinto: henkilö, joka jatkuvasti raapii kasvojaan tai päätään, tai kaivelee suutaan tai nenäänsä sormin, täyttäen loppuajan yskimällä raivoisasti keuhkojaan pihalle, ilman kättä suun edessä.

Voittajat: Bean & Crumpet

By Bean & Crumpet

Nothing happened when he reached the lodge and rang the front door bell

A Finnish customer at it best..

A waiter arrives at the counter, where customers have been waiting for few minutes.

The customers begins by saying: "The service here is really bad and slow."

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Suomalainen asiakas parhaimmillaan..

Tarjoilija saapuu tiskille, jossa asiakkaat ovat odottaneet muutaman minuutin.

Asiakas aloittaa: "Täällä on kyllä todella huono ja hidas palvelu."

By Bean & Crumpet