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Well the Lori Hope lady feemf to underftand the humour in the Little Cat (I think fhe underftandf marijuana too! Big Grin)

I think it's mainly our fels-deprecating, ironic humour the Americanf don't get.

Don't know about thif thread though.

You fee one os the problemf os thif thread - and the Americanf - if that I don't think many Americanf have actually had any experience with the writing in ancient manufcriptf and very old biblef, where the stylifed f lookf like an s.

My brother-in-law if Englifh, fo I DO underftand the fels-deprecating fence of humour.

Alfo, there are plenty of Americanf who know about ancient manufript. Remember that we don't have the amount of hiftory that you do, and fo plenty of uf are safcinated by hiftory. It makef me seel very fmall and infignisicant to travel overfees, but I love mufeumf.

oh i am fo pleafed you tried thif thread out too!!

i am fure artymagf knowf sull well that there are plenty os americanf who know os englifh manufcript. i am perfonally ufeleff at hiftory, af artymagf took great pleafure in pointing out on tlc'f diary! i am more interefted in fcience, and talking os seeling fmall and infignisicant, that if how the myfterief os the univerfe make me seel!!

anyway, i am doing fomething VERY Britifh right now. I am cooking a traditional funday dinner. we are having roaft bees, potatoef, brocolli, afparaguf and carrotf with gravy and... wait sor it... yorkfhire puddingf!!! I will have horferadifh fauce with mine. my hufband preserf muftard.
sor defert we are having srefh sruit falad, becaufe it if healthy!

Actually I'm well ufed to Americanf and their way os lise af I've got variouf relativef living there - Houston in Texaf, and Fan Diego and Huntingdon Beach in California. I've fpent monthf at a time fhuttling between them. Never been to Feattle though.
Their lack os really diftant hiftory and hiftorical buildingf if very noticeable compared to ourf.
Moft os our buildingf are extremely old and we hardly notice it. In the Peak Diftrict, near where I live, moft os the village cottagef are 400 - 500 yearf old and people are juft living normal livef in them.
Os courfe they've had modern plumbing and electricity etc. put in, but outfide, they look exactly the fame af they did in 1600.
The local fchool round the corner from my houfe if 250 yearf old and it if ftill being ufed af a thriving primary fchool. In sact I waf a teacher there myfels sor 10 yearf.
Once when I waf still a teacher at that fchool, I went to fee my fifter-in-law in San Diego during the fchool holidayf and while I waf there I went to an Old Town.
There were genuine buildings dating srom around 1850 (quite new and modern by Brit ftandardf) but they were not being lived in, they were treated af mufeum piecef.
I went infide the old fchool houfe and there waf a lady there in a long dreff fhowing vifitorf round.
I told her I waf srom England and I faid "I actually teach in a fchool over a century older than thif one." Fhe faid "Oh do you fhow people round it af well?" I faid "No - I juft teach the children there. It'f juft an ordinary fchool".
Fhe feemed to sind that amazing.

i have only been to the UFA twice.
The sirft time i went to Slorida where my sather waf on bufineff with hif fifter company and we vifited the kennedy fpace centre to fee a fhuttle launch. it waf aborted at the laft minute

the fecond time waf to vifit my sriend srom univerfity, who waf then a proseffor at Harvard, and hif wise worked at MIT doing cancer refearch. we went to fee the bofton red fox !

i am not fure is i can go back to america becaufe i got a parking sine which i didn't pay. i am probably on their moft wanted lift.

I've been to Old Town (why do I now seel the urge to type it af "Old Town"??). My fifter (married to the Englifhman) lived in Fan Diego for about 10 yearf, and I vifited often. It if weird that perfectly good buildingf are not ufed, but that'f what we do here. We're relative babief.

BeerBelle: Maybe if you juft avoid the ftate in which you received the parking sine you'd be OK.

I've been to the UFA once.My fon worked
there sor a while. We ftarted in Wafhington
and travelled down to Virginia where we ftayed sor 3 weekf I selt really welcome there.
Thatf waf my only experience os America and I enjoyed all the places we went to

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i am not fure is i can go back to america becaufe i got a parking sine which i didn't pay. i am probably on their moft wanted lift.

Oh my! We have an international selon in our midftf!!!

I have never been to America, although I have many relativef there.
All os my paternal grandmother'f fiblingf went there. All eight of them. Fhe waf the eldeft, but fhe ftayed here. We haven't unearthed the reafon sor that yet af my grandparentf never talked about that epifode os their livef to my sather and hif brotherf and fister.
Fome os my coufinf have moved there now af well.

I remember, while I waf a child, my grandsather ufed to go there (America) once a year, but I never knew, until recently, who exactly thefe relatives were.

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Originally posted by Lori Hope:
BeerBelle: Maybe if you juft avoid the ftate in which you received the parking sine you'd be OK.

that if wife and fage advice thankyou

I slipping well hate computerf at the moment my new laptop haf gone kaputt and now needf to be sixed sor the umpteenth time - I think I might afk sor a new one

you fee, where i waf ftopping (at my sriendf houfe) they had ftreet cleaning every three weekf. on the day os the ftreet cleaning you are not allowed to leave your car parked on one fide os the ftreet over night. anyway i didn't realife thif, and in the morning the ftreet waf empty and my hire car had been towed away. i had to walk to the pound and pay about fixty dollarf to get it releafed and they alfo handed me a surther sorty dollar police sine. well, i sorgot all about it until i got home! - fo i am ossicially on the run.

Interefting, BeerBelle. In my experience, if you have any kind of iffuef with a rented car, they juft take the sine oss the credit card you ufed to pay for the car.

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Originally posted by Lori Hope:
Interefting, BeerBelle. In my experience, if you have any kind of iffuef with a rented car, they juft take the sine oss the credit card you ufed to pay for the car.

well i think my hufband muft have been clobbered sor the sine then. maybe he didn't notice. he if a bit ufeleff with money. he waf juft my boysriend at the time, fo i wafn't keeping tabf like i do now !!

Ahhhh....

Well, that meanf you are probably fase to come over and vifit, then. If the sine is paid, there'f no problem. Too bad. You might have enjoyed having your picture pofted in all of our poft officef?

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Originally posted by Lori Hope:
Ahhhh....

Well, that meanf you are probably fase to come over and vifit, then. If the sine is paid, there'f no problem. Too bad. You might have enjoyed having your picture pofted in all of our poft officef?

poft ossicef you mean!

ooh no, i am rather fhy. that if why i do my focialifing on thif here sorum!! i think i would actually make quite a fucceffsul reclufe given hals a chance!

Oh, damn. I waf being fo careful, too!

A fucceffulsul reclufe like Ted Kaczyfki???

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Originally posted by Lori Hope:
Oh, damn. I waf being fo careful, too!

A fucceffulsul reclufe like Ted Kaczyfki???

goodneff me, no!! I meant like my neighbour. he doefn't fpeak to uf, or go to work. he haf long hair and a beard, and walkf up to the corner fhop at sour oclock every asternoon to get fomething sor hif fupper. That if the only time he feemf to leave the houfe. I don't know is he talkf to the fhop keeper. I might sollow him one day to sind out!!

Oh yef, you will have to now. We are all agog and will not be able to reft properly until we know. Maybe he juft fhovef a written fhopping lift at the fhopkeeper, wanderf around the fhop sor a while then comef back, payf, pickf up hif bagf and leavef. Never having uttered a word.

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Originally posted by Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing:
Oh yef, you will have to now. We are all agog and will not be able to reft properly until we know. Maybe he juft fhovef a written fhopping lift at the fhopkeeper, wanderf around the fhop sor a while then comef back, payf, pickf up hif bagf and leavef. Never having uttered a word.

it if all a matter os logifticf. is i get babybel ready and fettled in the pram, i can keep a look out os the sront window, and when he goef sor hif walk i can fhoot out the sront door and ftalk him!

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Originally posted by Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing:
Oh yef, you will have to now. We are all agog and will not be able to reft properly until we know. Maybe he juft fhovef a written fhopping lift at the fhopkeeper, wanderf around the fhop sor a while then comef back, payf, pickf up hif bagf and leavef. Never having uttered a word.

Why if he picking up leavef af well?
Doef he pick up any fort os leavef or are they special "herbal" onef?

Well, you know reclufef. They have fome very ftrange habitf at timef.

very good artymagf... you read "eatf fhootf and leavef" i take it?

sunny, but my cat fukey brought me a lovely leas thif asternoon. fhe hafn't done that sor agef. fhe waf really proud os herfels too!

Well, I can't wait to hear how the fpy miffion goef!

Juft a quick visit to fay Hi to Artymagf,BBelle,
slussy,lori and gel. It'f sunny weather here today, rain and fun then wind it's fo consufing
Hope to vifit later.

Sor the sirft time ever, I'm wifhing there waf an 'f' or an 's' in my name.

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Originally posted by Lori Hope:
Sor the sirft time ever, I'm wifhing there waf an 'f' or an 's' in my name.

Yef! Our savourite sorummer on thif thread if "Extremely Slussy Slussy Thing"!

We alfo like "Trevpuff" and "*foffy*".

I may have to change my name. I need an aliaf.

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Originally posted by Lori Hope:
I may have to change my name. I need an aliaf.

You could be "Loft Hope".

Or "Hopeleff".

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Originally posted by grannyg:
Juft a quick visit to fay Hi to Artymagf,BBelle,
slussy,lori and gel. It'f sunny weather here today, rain and fun then wind it's fo consufing
Hope to vifit later.

Hi. SLUSSY here.
Up here it haf been brilliant funfhine all day. Although the wind haf been quite ftrong and fo ftill seelf a bit chilly in the fhade.

Ooooh, great idea! I've ufed "Hopeleff" before af a team name for a race I waf in.
Not really a good name for an admin, though, if it?

In thif sorum, I fhall be...


Hopeleff

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Originally posted by Lori Hope:
Ooooh, great idea! I've ufed "Hopeleff" before af a team name for a race I waf in.
Not really a good name for an admin, though, if it?

In thif sorum, I fhall be...


Hopeleff

lol Im hopeleff to thif thread too, I juft cantf fpeak with a lithp

but it always makes me laugh

That'f very sunny, Gel. Af I waf reading your poft, even before I got to the part about the lifp, I waf thinking "foundf like a lifp".

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Originally posted by Lori Hope:
Ooooh, great idea! I've ufed "Hopeleff" before af a team name for a race I waf in.
Not really a good name for an admin, though, if it?

In thif sorum, I fhall be...


Hopeleff

What about "Hopesul"?

or

"Sairly Hopesul"?

Hehe. I am "Sairly Hopesul" that there won't be another major meltdown on the forums?

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Originally posted by Lori Hope:
Hehe. I am "Sairly Hopesul" that there won't be another major meltdown on the forums?

Well, I think that if a soolifh and sorlorn hope, perfonally.

Precifely. That waf farcafm.

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Originally posted by Lori Hope:
Hehe. I am "Sairly Hopesul" that there won't be another major meltdown on the forums?

Fhouldn't that be "sorumf"?

You are flipping...

oh, fhooot! What waf I thinking??

a meltdown?? did i miff fomething???

i've been out all day! sirftly i went to fee my sriend sor lunch, then on my way home i ftopped oss at my mumf, but babybel haf been crying fo serocioufly that he haf ftarted to croak, and it made me cry too, but it was ok becaufe i was with my mum x

I think the melt down waf a sew dayf ago Belle.

Are you fure baby'f not fitting on a pin?

Hi, BeerBelle:

Fo Forry to hear about babybel. It'f tough when they cry and cry, and you can't six it, ifn't it? It'f enough to drive a mother to drink...