The Priest's Divorced Mother Confided to Me-because that is who you want Marriage Advice From.
So I note:
Consider the Source
"Where do you live?" she asked me in her heavy spanish accent-because her English was a bit off. "I live in a hell-hole crack-house" -it was a joke. So she reported to the local Priest "she is on crack!-she told me she lives in a crack house!" And here's another one: "Why were you yelling at her" "Because she is a crazy out of her mind restraining order waiting to happen and she kept poking me with lit candle lighter sticks"- gets translated in a bad Filipino accented spanish- "She told me she is going to light her with candle sticks and likes harassing her!" - WHAT?? (or something close I gather....)
Have you ever been just badly translated?
If you get your best advice from the local medicated homeless chick babysitting the flowers or someone whose command of the English language is slightly better than Ricky Riccardo- you might actually go ask the person on whom they are quoting yourself. Generally "did you really say ...xyz...". works fine.
Or you can live life in the Looking Glass and get all your information from the Cheshire Cat. But then don't blame them for sticking you in the kitty litter.
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