I was raised on a dairy in Texas. Some of the fun things we told the city kids;
Chocolate milk comes from the brown cows.
The cows have to have shade in the summer, otherwise they overheat and give evaporated milk.
We milk the bulls too, but we have to keep their milk separate from the rest.
Another one popular in Navy bootcamp - We would tell the new recruits that the Navy had developed/was testing a vaccine for syphilis and that the vaccine was administered using a square needle in the left nut, but it only hurt a lot for 4 or 5 days.
Merkin friend on the net: Why is it called Tim Horton’s?
Me: in mischief mood, loved Rick Mercer’s Talking to Americans Oh, it was named after our prime minister, after he won the election with a double-double…
These are a little cruel…
I was working with two girls over from Romania on summer break. Their English was very good, but they needed help with their idioms. One gal wanted to know what was a common expression for disbelief. I told her the American phrase was “Oh, what a load of crap!” Of course, when she said it to our boss, and was asked sweetly where she learned that phrase, my name leapt immediately to her lips.
Another time, she was dating a concert pianist. A bunch of co-workers and myself pretended like we couldn’t figure what she was trying to say when she told us what he was. Finally, we told her what was wrong: the word “pianist” has a silent T at the end.
She went around (for a short while, at least) telling everyone her paramour was a classically-trained penis.
