Swenglish conversation yesterday:

Lars-Göran: "Have you seen my work vantar"?
Marie: "No. But I know where your arbets gloves are."
Two seconds of silence.
The dawning light in his eyes.
The reddening of his face.
Lars-Göran: "Just don't say ANYTHING!"
Marie: (looking innocent) "Jag?"

My contenders for Knob of the Week. This week we have two finalists and I can't pick the winner.

Contender #1: A conversation between two men dressed in football shirts that I overheard yesterday morning, in which one of them was wondering why Brazil had chosen not to play in the Euro 2004 tournament . . .

Contender #2: A guy who was standing next to a particularly impressive yacht, with the name and port being "Juliet, St Ives". (Important note: the boat was sporting a UK flag the size of a king-sized bed sheet).

Woman: "Hmm... St Ives. I wonder where that is?" (Clue.... flag....)
Knob (speaking very authoritatively): She's a long way from home. St Ives is in the Caribbean - one of the islands in the West Indies, near the Bahamas."
Wife: "Wow!"
Marie (under her breath as she passed): "You Knob!"

This boat, from St Ives in CORNWALL (not to be confused with St Kitts in the Caribbean!) was amazing. We took a couple of pictures so you can get an idea of the sheer size of this thing. You can see her here:



And as another comparison, this next shot features a boat up at the end of the pier that is similar in size to ours. It looks like a dinghy next to Juliet:



I was sure she was some swank charter boat, but turned up nothing on the net. Then we got the story from the local gossip network. She is 147 feet long, cost $US30,000,000 (not a misprint, that's thirty million American dollars, folks!) and was bought three years ago by the guy that started the Rockport clothing company. It is simply his own private pleasure boat and he sails around in it with his family and a crew of six.



I wonder if they'll adopt me?