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Posted today's freestyle on my new freundes' blog, bad_writers.
Family arrived from Nigeria yesterday and my Uncle went cycling with my Father in the Essex countryside. Upon passing a field of yellow flowers, he asked, 'What's that?' and my Father replied 'That's a rape field.' He cycled on quietly, and didn't mention the whole thing until dinner when he related the whole thing to me.
'So there's like 'rape fields' in England?'
'Rape is like, a kind of seed.'
'Oh, I SEE. So is it spelled R,E -?'
'No, it's spelled the same.'
'And what's it used for?'
'It's the stuff they make sunflower oil out of.'
'And why don't they call it rape oil instead?'
My father laughs.
'Because that would be the worst advertising campaign ever.'
My father joins in, putting on a deep advertisers' voice:
'"The product formerly known as RAPE oil, now being rebranded for you as CONSENT oil for the conscientious house wife ..."'
I don't even want to know what my uncle thought a 'rape field' was.
Foreigners.
Family arrived from Nigeria yesterday and my Uncle went cycling with my Father in the Essex countryside. Upon passing a field of yellow flowers, he asked, 'What's that?' and my Father replied 'That's a rape field.' He cycled on quietly, and didn't mention the whole thing until dinner when he related the whole thing to me.
'So there's like 'rape fields' in England?'
'Rape is like, a kind of seed.'
'Oh, I SEE. So is it spelled R,E -?'
'No, it's spelled the same.'
'And what's it used for?'
'It's the stuff they make sunflower oil out of.'
'And why don't they call it rape oil instead?'
My father laughs.
'Because that would be the worst advertising campaign ever.'
My father joins in, putting on a deep advertisers' voice:
'"The product formerly known as RAPE oil, now being rebranded for you as CONSENT oil for the conscientious house wife ..."'
I don't even want to know what my uncle thought a 'rape field' was.
Foreigners.