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Re: [OM] A bit of a tease to start the week

Subject: Re: [OM] A bit of a tease to start the week
From: Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 17:59:33 +0000
'Escaping' from the old world - on a convict ship?  Maybe.


On 18 November 2013 17:56, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Settle down, Piers. You know how we colonials like to muck up the Mother
> > Tongue.
>
> Just don't take away our gun's and amo's.
>
> I find it fascinating how things that happened hundreds of years in
> the past still define a country and its people today. For example,
> historically, the colonies seemed to always have a problem with
> substance abuse. The colonists also seemed to have a problem with
> authority which is why so many of them escaped from the "old world" to
> begin with.
>
> So, butchering up Mother's Tongue for dinner seems to be pretty much
> an acceptable thing here--as long as we wash it down with enough beer.
> Shoot, if you BBQ it long enough, even the spellings soften up. If you
> drink enough beer, you start talking like a Crazy Brit. (Murkens can't
> do Aussy because their lips don't move).
>
>
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