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A fireman is polishing his fire engine outside the fire station when he
notices a little girl next door in a little red cart with little ladders
hung on the side and a garden hose tightly coiled in the middle.

The little girl is wearing a fireman’s helmet and has the cart tied to a
dog and a cat.
The fire-fighter walks over to take a closer look:

‘That’s a lovely fire engine,’ he says admiringly.

‘Thanks,’ says the little girl.

The fireman looks closer and notices the little girl has tied one of the
cart’s strings to the dog’s collar and one to the cat’s testicles.

‘Little colleague,’ says the fire-fighter, ‘I don’t want to tell you how
to run your fire engine, but if you were to tie that rope around the cat’s
collar, I think you could probably go a lot faster.’

The little girl pauses for a moment, looks at the wagon, at the dog and at
the cat, then shyly looks into the fireman’s eyes and says:

‘You’re probably right, but then I wouldn’t have a fu ** ing siren, would
I?’

Arthur is 90 years old. He’s played golf every day since his retirement 25 years ago.
One day he arrives home looking downcast.
‘That’s it,’ he tells his wife. ‘I’m giving up golf. My eyesight has gotten so bad that once I’ve hit the ball I couldn’t see where it went.’
His wife sympathizes and makes him a cup of tea. As they sit down she says, ‘Why don’t you take my brother with you and give it one more try.’
‘That’s no good’ sighs Arthur, ‘your brother’s a hundred and three. He can’t help.’
‘He may be a hundred and three’, says the wife, ‘but his eyesight is perfect.’
So the next day Arthur heads off to the golf course with his brother-in-law. He tees up, takes an almighty swing and squints down the fairway.
He turns to the brother-in-law. ‘Did you see the ball?’
‘Of course I did!’ replied the brother-in-law. ‘I have perfect eyesight’.
‘Where did it go?’ says Arthur.
‘I don’t remember.’

With all that rain yesterday there was really nothing else to do other than watching Tv or going to the cinema.
I went for the 2nd one (after getting tired of the 1st one…). The chosen movie was “There will be blood”.
Antonella and I incredibly managed to arrive on time, after a long walk under the annoying Dutch rain.
To be honest there’s not point at arriving early at the cinema in Amsterdam, because everybidy arrives at the last moment or even late and you’re forced to stand to let other people pass. I hate that!

Comingt to the movie: I liked it a lot. Daniel Day Lewis is great and luckily his English was clearly comprehensible. A couple of week ago I’ve to see “No country for old men” (great film btw) and Tommy Lee Jones was almost not understandable at all, with that fucking Texan accent and his continuous moaning.

Top moment: when the main character (Lewis) forces the priest to shout “I’m a false prophet and god is a superstition”. AMAZING :)