Quote of the Week: Original Cast

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The following takes place between 10:45 and 10:55 at a party during a discussion about West End stage shows in London between my girlfriend and a friend of ours. The original conversation took part in Dutch but has been translated into English (which is ironic given the opening statement). The names of those involved have been changed to protect the innocent.

My girlfriend
“It’s great to see a show in the original English rather than translated into Dutch with stupid Dutch songs.”
Friend
“I agree. I think it was in the 70s that I went on a school trip to see a West End Show in London. It was Jesus Christ Superstar and now that I come to think of it; it must have been the original cast back then.”
My girlfriend
“Oh really? So Jesus was actually in it as well? “
*Big smirk*

Stuart

Stuart is an accident prone Englishman who has been living in the Netherlands since 2001. Even his move to the country was an unintentional accident, the result of replying to a cryptic job advertisement he found one day in a local British magazine. Since then he has learned to love the Dutch (so much so that he married one of them) and now calls the country home. He started the blog Invading Holland in 2006 as a place to share his strange stories of language misunderstandings, cultural confusions and his own accident prone nature.

4 Responses

  1. VallyP says:

    Tell that girlfriend of yours she’s very slim…(one of my early language confusions)

  2. Invader_Stu says:

    VallyP – She said thank you :p

  3. VallyP says:

    I’ve just watched the video of how you draw your cartoons. Brilliant! And I love your gallery too. What I’m going to do when we eventually meet you, I don’t know. I’m so convinced you look like your little man here …lol..

  4. Invader Stu says:

    Thank you :)
    I don’t know but it might already shock you to know I actully have a beard :p

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