Wiktionary:Christmas Competition 2009/November 29
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- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- I'm a baker.
- How's it going?
- Sometimes things get really mixed up
- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- I work in a recycling plant.
- How's it going?
- Sometimes our batteries are given out free of charge.
- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- I'm a carpenter's apprentice
- How's it going?
- God awful...people are constantly calling on the carpet
- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- I'm running a dog kennel.
- How's it going?
- Not too good: it's going to the dogs.
- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- I'm a professor at UC Davis.
- How's it going?
- The lectures are straight from the horse's mouth.
- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- I make calculators
- How's it going?
- Great. You can really count on the products
- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- Я работаю в орнитологическом институте (I work in the ornithological institute.)
- How's it going?
- Весь день я галок считаю. (All the day long I count jackdaws.)
- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- Je fais les greffes de mains. (I do hand transplants.)
- How's it going?
- Pas mal. J'ai acheté l'entreprise de quelqu'un, qui venait de l'acheter de quelqu'un d'autre. On dirait que l'entreprise change souvent de main (Not bad. I bought the business of off someone, who'd just bought it from another. You could say it often changes hand.
- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- I do hand transplants
- How's it going?
- Not bad. I bought the business of off someone, who'd just bought it from another. You could say it often change hand.
- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- Je fabrique des canots truffés de trous (I make hole-ridden boats)
- How's it going?
- Pas bon. Il prend l'eau (Not great, it's taking in water)
- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- I'm an unsuccessful dentist.
- How's it going?
- I'm living hand-to-mouth.
- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- I am Mervyn King, the Governor of the Bank of England.
- How's it going?
- It's a licence to print money.
- 15 pts. Ƿidsiþ 18:42, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- Je vend des deltaplanes. (I sell hang gliders)
- How's it going?
- Pas bon. Elle bat de l'aile (not great, it's flapping a wing)
- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- I organise parties for schoolkids
- How's it going?
- Great. It's child's play
- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- J'organise des fêtes pour des écoliers (I organise parties for schoolchildren)
- How's it going?
- Super. C'est vraiment un jeu d'enfant (it's child's play)
- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- Je fait cuire des tartes à pruneaux (I make prune pies)
- How's it going?
- Pas bon. Les tartes me font chier (Not great. They make me shit)
- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- Je fabrique des divans en pâtes (I make pasta sofas)
- How's it going?
- Super. On pourrait dire que si on en achetait, on aurait le cul bordé de nouilles (Great. You could say that if you bought one, you'd have your ass framed with noodles
- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- je fabrique des calculatrices (I make calculators)
- How's it going?
- Super. On peut compter sur le produit (you can count on the product)
- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- Building tea-cup rides.
- How's it going?
- Super. Je suis dans mon assiette (I'm in my plate)
- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- transmogrifying humans into farm animals
- How's it going?
- pas bon, les clients deviennent chèvre (not great, the clients are becoming goats)
- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- I've opened a pig farm.
- How's it going?
- It brings home the bacon.
- 15 pts. ALGRIF talk 17:37, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- I sell chewing tobacco.
- How's it going?
- Great. I reckon I'll be quids in.
- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- It's an alternative underground transport system.
- How's it going?
- Not very well. In fact it's going down the tubes.
- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- I signed up for a deep-sea-diving class.
- How's it going?
- I'm in over my head.
- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- I'm a lumberjack.
- How's it going?
- I've sure got my work cut out for me.
- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- I developed a car that runs on urine
- How's it going?
- Dreadful. People keep taking the piss!
- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- I'm an accountant in a very prestigious company.
- How's it going?
- We're bankrupt, by all accounts
- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- I make English and American football teams meet
- How's it going?
- It turns out to be on a different ballpark
- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- I own 2 soccer teams but all my players have been arrested in the corruption scandal.
- How's it going?
- It was a Catch-22.
- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- I'm Albert Einstein and they found out my wife wrote all my theories.
- How's it going?
- It was about time.
- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- I make buoyancy aids.
- How's it going?
- It keeps my head above the water.
- 15 pts. Conrad.Irwin 10:38, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- I'm a gardener for a wealthy patron.
- How's it going?
- I'm raking it in.
- 25 pts. Ƿidsiþ 10:34, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- I'm the president of the British Sign Language Association.
- How's it going?
- I'm making money hand over fist.
- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- I make inflatible chess-sets
- How's it going?
- Just swell thanks — as the actress said to the bishop
- 15 pts. Conrad.Irwin 10:13, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- I'm supervising the building of a second Channel Tunnel. We've got one team drilling from the French side, and another team drilling from the English side.
- How's it going?
- I'm making ends meet.
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150 pts. (SB just beat me to it.) Ƿidsiþ 10:09, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
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- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- I make long rulers for school teachers.
- How's it going?
- Well across the board
- 15 pts. Conrad.Irwin 09:35, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- I've invented the RoboWaiter3000, an android who will make all restaurant serving staff obsolete.
- How's it going?
- It puts food on the table.
- 25 pts. Ƿidsiþ 09:27, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- I've invented a new automatic coupling device
- How's it going?
- It makes ends meet
- I've got a new business.
- What's your business?
- I'm writing a freely-licensed collaborative dictionary.
- How's it going?
- It's true what they say: a camel is a horse designed by a committee.
- 15 pts. Dominic·t 10:45, 29 November 2009 (UTC)