Conversing with Conservative Anabaptists

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lesterb wrote: This is the kind of attitude that drives wedges between NMB's and MB's. If you want to be catered to, you'd better learn to bend a bit yourself.
And I'm all about driving wedges!! :D

Seriously... my twisted humor, sarcasm and wit has gotten me in a lot of trouble over the years. But its also gotten me back out as well.
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appleman2006 wrote:If a stranger asked me a question like that my quick answer would be "not much". If my brother asked I would tell him to "go shinny up a cactus".
A EPMC I worked with years ago had a favorite that I never forgot:

"Go suck starling eggs."

Yeah, didn't make sense to me either.
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justme wrote:my guess it was someone who thinks in dutch, and was translating in their head before they asked the question in english.
That makes sense to me and can see how that would be the case- I think if i was there I could have maybe picked up on which is the case, 1) I've had many more converstations with Anabaptists 2) I could see the expression which Neil has difficulty with vision to see detail- the language thing or just asking about possible occupation although not worded like we are used to- I'd rather just give the benefit of the doubt. Thanks!
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