Pixie <Pixie@AnnWheatley.com.invalid>wrote:
>On Fri, 07 May 2010 20:47:57 +1000, hopper
>
/snipt
>>IIRC .. I had my first APO at around 8/9?
>>
>I was told it cost my parents a small fortune and it was to be treated
>like gold.
>It's a hard cover, green (linen looking) and about 2 inches thick.
>You never kept yours??
To read?
Never... used the pages at age 10 to roll me first
durrie..!. from mashed fig, no less!!
And from memory it was hard cover, yes.. but blue linen
with a kind of rust red lining inside.
You aren't colour blind???
/ducks
>I went to the "big library" fer that. Many more "hits" in the S's at
>the big library... /laff
>
sewing???
/scraitches haid
>>Try looking up "fook".. which is how my Dad pronounced
>>the word.. and fecking?
>>
>And shut... try fookin' shut...you butch... ROFL
>Swearing just becomes an exercise in hilarity at my house with a non
>Australian born Husband.
>
ummm.. reading that.. you.. you gotta be married to a
Maori..right??
>He picks His battles carefully... /laff
>
Strewth, I reckon...!
Those guys got a tongue that long it is easily snipped
with scissors/pinking shears..!!
>>Even worse was that one.. had me puzzled for years what
>>was so great about "fecking hell"! Especially when
>>uttered profusely by a good Kafflick man.. curse the
>>Leprechauns and their Gaelic for young Aussie
>>lurnin'..!
>>
>It's fookin' hill at this address /laff.
>It's no wonder we don't argue... I can never keep a straight face!!
>rofl
>
Especially when they do the "welcome dance".. hilarious
stuff..!!
This mob look like the NZ version of Moe, Curly and
Larry..!!
http://media.ebaumsworld.com/picture/Shaggyfort1e/Haka.jpg
>/checks foil fer sharpness... let 'em try...
>I ain't in "some places". I don't hang around with illiterates.
/cough
'scuse me!!?
Sassy??
No?
>I don't ever recall being flamed by anyone with any flicker of
>intelligence.
>
You were in that Sandpit..IIRC.
There is no measure comparable in "flaming" , there..
to intelligence <g>
>>>Say what you mean, mean what you say!
>>>
>>ASCII makes no change to that. It is the read that
>>determines.
>>
>And.... Your point??
>Having 5 people take 5 different meanings to the one emoticon is just
>silly.
>
The skill always rest with the writer, the read is the
readers responsibility.
Usenet decrees that, not I.
ASCII has been with Usenet longer than any stupid AOL
invention.
>It's "the read" that has Barry trying to get rid of 5000 bombs.
>It's "the read" that had the Dow plummeting today.../laff.
>Someone can't tell the diff between a B (billion) and an M (million).
>/laff
>
I see you get my point <g>
>> There is always room to expand ones vocabulary.. boring otherwise?
>>
>Since when did emoticons become a vocabulary??
>
Right after the Globe dropped morse code as a normal
communication and as "telegrams" went off the
teletype<g>
>Never been told my vocab was "boring" or limited in any way... I
>should give up my budding career as a short story writer then...
>Yes??...
>
You are mixing things.. and it aint working. I aint
touching that one <g>
>Have a read of most of those emoticons!!
>The first one being a prime example!
> :) Happy
> and
> Leper
>A leper?? Since when did lepers ever smile??
>
When their nose fell off.
The shrinking cheeks pull the corners of the mouth up.
Go look at some Afghani lepers.. grinning like Cheshire
cats.. and not an ounce of meat on their bones!!
Carnt be happy!
>I get the impression that the nose has fallen off the leper... choice.
>
That ASCII is a HTML code use. It produces a smiley on
a page. For text it is :-).. k?
>And don't even start me on these. I have seen these used as a "kiss my
>ars3" type salute...
> :-# Blowing a kiss
> :-* Blowing a kiss
> :-x Blowing a kiss
>
And all are correct in context with the preceding
prose.
The skill always rest with the writer, the read is the
readers responsibility.
>No... one can get very confused with emoticons in a group situation!
>/laff
>
It is because the skill has been decimated with "LOL"
and that type of AOL crap, AND, the interpretation may
vary with poor reading skills today.
We reap what others (clueless) have sown.
>>/snip
>>
>>>>>King of very strange wording.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>Eh... never were truer words spoken... ROFL
>>>
>>I thought it bloody clever too..!
>>
>I thought Herself meant "kind of very strange wording"...
>It just stroked your ego better as "King"... mehehe.
>
Nup.. sorry.
Nieve wrote and meant "King".
And I saw (clearly) her tongue wedged firmly in cheek.
You miss that?
/snipT
>>/nods
>>I reckon the early US ARMY - Custers era - all had to
>>be "Molly Dukers" (cacky handers - [AM] south paw))
>>http://www.funtrivia.com/en/subtopics/More-Aussie-Lingo-103402.html
>>How else did they ride AND carve up them Indians??
>>
>They didn't... /laff. Obviously on the wrong side!
>
My point exactly <g>
>The only survivor was a Yankee horse, yes??
>
I think that got eaten :->
/snipT
>HEY!!! What's with the "center" thing???
>No "center" in my Pocket Oxford... yours??
>/touch butt...../sizzle...
>(No correspondence will be entered into...rofl)
>
typo+Yankee schpel sheka <g>
>
>>
>Diddun know what a pinkie was. Have never got one. I pay my bills!
>/laff
>
It used to be your "final pay slip".. but that seems to
have got lost.
Now it is a "first and final warning".
Prolly much the same thing if you think about it?
/snipt
>From what I have gleaned, your B&S's up there are vastly different to
>a rural one down here. They are rugged down here.
>Rough as guts.
>
/nods
.. seems so :-)
>Most people like to keep what they buy down here... not have it end up
>in shreds or with a cigarette burn in the back of it.
>As for "making it"??... GenY?? The "throw away" generation?? Surely
>you jest??
>
heh.. Mum makes the gowns.
Dad buys the suit.
It is how it is, once.
Debutante Balls are much the same but more "posh".. :-)
/snipT
>That is also something I have observed up your way. The amount of
>"oldies" (Mums and Dads) who go to your B&S's for crowd control.
>
More a kind of "community thing", little else on in
Town so everyone goes.
\
>Nieve has and will continue to do so.
>Your fanboi is still stuck in that MOE timewarp of Y2K misery.
>
/nods
.. hopeless case :-/
>>Phewwwww.. that delivery was work<g>
>>
>Whining Queenslanders... whinge if yer bum was on fire.../laff
>
If yer don't whinge you don't get listened to.
Everyone wants to help.
ABCP?? heh heh
oorOO
--
hopper
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