I'm not usually a nit-picker but this is bugging the hell out of me.
POSTED BY: ebonezer
UPDATED: Monday, April 18, 2005 23:22
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Hej AKS, thanks for the clarification. 
And yeah "Hej" is about the extent of my Swedish knowledge. That pretty much is how it was explained to me, but I did a very bad job of explaining it the first time it came around.
So to everyone else, what AKS said.
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"Oh hey, I got an idea. Instead of us hanging
around playing art critic till I get pinched by
the Man, how's about we move away from this
eerie-ass piece of work and get on with our
increasingly eerie-ass day, how's that?"
My eerie-ass website:
http://gunhandsfirefly.homestead.com/Index.html
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One more Anglo - American difference - tyre vs. tire (car wheels)
And my college room-mate spent a year with his family in (I believe) Essex. His younger brother insisted on being called Randall that year, because to be "randy" pretty well anywhere in the UK means you are sexually excited - not a nickname an 12-year-old wants to have!
MAL "You only gotta scare him."
JAYNE "Pain is scary..."
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Who puts mayo on fries anyways? That is disgusting. Ketchup only. .
You don't put mayo OR katchup on fries.
You put mustard.
yummy.
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We do the hard thespian, so you don't have to.
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Originally posted by Wren:Quote:
Originally posted by Ruxton:
GUNHAND, pull yer socks up and tell EBONEZER to keep his pecker up. He'll catch on eventually.
Erm, you might want to start running for the hills now cos Ebo does not have a pecker (ie she is of the female gender) and she tends to get a mite cranky when people refer to her as a male.
Wern, you're my hero you know that?
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We do the hard thespian, so you don't have to.
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To all:
"Keep your pecker up" means Keep a stiff upper lip. As I noted, my friend's mother could have said the same thing to her daughter.
I see no one has touched on "pull your socks up."
I won't either, even tho I put it in here.
.......Ruxton
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Hej gunhand!
Well, I'm just glad I didn't confuse everyone!
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Many, many years ago when I was a secretary, we had a gent from Australia working in the plant. He came to me one day and asked me for some rubbers. You can imagine my reaction! I was sure I had misunderstood him, so I asked him what he was going to do with them. "Put them on the end of my pencil so I can rub out mistakes." I gently explained that we call those erasers and what the other word meant to Americans.
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Originally posted by AKS:
Re: the Swedish/Norwegian discussion.
I'm Swedish, so perhaps I can bring some insight into this.
:D
Hej, AKS
I'm sorry this is OT, but it's been bugging me since someone told me that Danish has no puns. I didn't believe it, but I do believe in the driness of Scandinavian humour. So, my question, is there a difference in the humour of these differently related/differentiated tongues?
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Originally posted by ebonezer:
Every sense i joined this site however long agao i joined it, i've been looking at a quote that says something like "I poured my heart and soul into this show. I beleved in it with every fibre of my being."
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do you mean "ever since" ?
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Wow. Jason dredged up quite an interesting thread.
"Who puts mayo on fries anyways?"
Umm ... I do. *grin* And years after I started doing it, someone told me they do it in Europe. What a surprise!
I can't believe no one commented on the spelling of "beleve" in the original quote, though. That's the word that always gets me.
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