Baffled in Barcelona
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Maurice,
Henley
2009-09-02
Has he not seen the first episode of Fawlty Towers and its opening lines?
Gerard,
Kortrijk Flandern-Belgium
2009-09-01
In one of the episodes of Fawlty Towers, Basil Fawlty tells the Spanish butler (he is from Barcelona!) there's too much 'burro' on the plate. Manuel, the spanish waiter answers that no, 'burro' is "ee-or, ee-or".
Anonymous
2009-07-24
He has confused it with Italian. In Italian, "burro" means butter.
Anonymous
2009-07-22
Oh, my God.. What a funny experience this guy had. I think we'd better look up for a word in the dictionary before trying to use before people.. I'll definitely do. lol
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© MMIX
I was in the Dominican Republic in 1992. We went on a long journey to the capital Santo Domingo and on the way back at a truckstop I was trying to find the Gents. I boldly went in to a place where a few guys were playing pool to ask for directions but instead of saying, "Where's the Gents, please?", I said, "Can I have a man, please?" in Spanish. Needless to say, this caused a number of laughs.
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