On Sat, 08 May 2010 18:59:57 +1000, hopper
>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!!
>
/blanch...
You northerners will smoke anything... /laff
>And from memory it was hard cover, yes.. but blue linen
>with a kind of rust red lining inside.
>
That would be mould....... /chortle...
>You aren't colour blind???
>
Usually only found in the male of the species...
You??
Mine was a First Australian Edition.
Green and Gold I'll be tellin' ya. Can't get more Australian that
THAT!!
Yours was prolly First Edition...period... circa 1924 from the info on
the inside cover...
ROFL
>/ducks
>
Duck all ya want... my aim is true... /laff
>>I went to the "big library" fer that. Many more "hits" in the S's at
>>the big library... /laff
>
>sewing???
>
That too... /snigger
>/scraitches haid
>
You'll get splinters...
>>>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??
>
German/South African/Kiwi with an Australian passport...
Nobody --> NOBODY can say I am anything but multicultural!
/laff
>>He picks His battles carefully... /laff
>>
>Strewth, I reckon...!
>Those guys got a tongue that long it is easily snipped
>with scissors/pinking shears..!!
>
And I would snip it... because??..../snicker
>>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
>
You notice that man/woman has two sets of ears??
Someone did a lamer cut and paste jobbie.../laff
>>/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 swear Your Honour, never saw Her before in my life.../grin
>>I don't ever recall being flamed by anyone with any flicker of
>>intelligence.
>>
>You were in that Sandpit..IIRC.
>
Never got flamed!... Aye!
>There is no measure comparable in "flaming" , there..
>to intelligence <g>
>
True. But I was never flamed in there.../grin
Copped a bit of halfarsed flack... but flamed??... I doan recall...
>ASCII has been with Usenet longer than any stupid AOL
>invention.
>
It's still been borked. It is not what it once was.
>>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>
>
Twist it all ya want... /yawn!
>>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>
>
Bad simile.
Nobody ever fusked with Morse. It stayed the same from the day it was
invented to the day it "died". never changed.
Nobody changed it to suit theirselves...
..-. --- --- -.- .. -. --. .... . .-.. is still the same.... ROFL
>>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>
>
Nope..... not mixed up at all.... mehehe... chicken...
>That ASCII is a HTML code use. It produces a smiley on
>a page. For text it is :-).. k?
>
Also does in MSWord....
Show me where it produces a leper...... k?
/laff
>The skill always rest with the writer, the read is the
>readers responsibility.
>
Pigs! You can't decide which side of that fence you want to fall onto
when you is the writer..../laff
>>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.
>
/checkmate...
>>>/snip
>>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?
>
I could do a wedgie/cheek joke here that Nieve won't understand, so
I'll pass...../chortle
>/snipT
>
>>The only survivor was a Yankee horse, yes??
>>
>I think that got eaten :->
>
No. It actually wassun...!
>/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>
>
You shoulduna smoked that dictionary.... mehehe.
/and She scores......./laff
>>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?
>
Never got one of those either.
Well... not on pink paper anyways... it was an email...
Have been sneaking up on email ever since.... /gulp
>/snipt
>
>>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.
>
A long time ago, in a land far, far away...!
>Debutante Balls are much the same but more "posh".. :-)
>
Never did that either... /shudder...
>/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.
>
Too many glassings here. Too much going on.
And not always good.
>>Whining Queenslanders... whinge if yer bum was on fire.../laff
>>
>If yer don't whinge you don't get listened to.
>
I'll haveta try it... /laff
Can't see it workin' fer me... /grin
>Everyone wants to help.
>ABCP?? heh heh
>
It's survived worse!
>oorOO
Pixie :-))... rather attached to me nose... /grin
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