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05-20-2004, 05:08 AM | #281 |
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05-21-2004, 07:58 PM | #282 | |
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05-27-2004, 04:20 PM | #283 |
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[B]I am from Victoria BC Canada
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07-26-2004, 12:38 PM | #284 |
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All the cool people from Europe? Given the summer weather we AREN'T having, I would say all the COLD people are in Europe....
I am also from Hampshire, England but I am not rich.......
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07-27-2004, 07:02 AM | #285 |
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Well, I am Scottish. I come from, and live in, the third city in Scotland which is called Aberdeen. It's grey and rainy.
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07-27-2004, 08:01 AM | #286 | |
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I live in a tiny little hamlet that nobody's ever heard of, that ceased to be a villiage proper when the post office closed down because the postmistress retired! My hometown's main attractions are the two bars. Get kicked out of one? Walk 15 seconds up the street and you're covered for another few hours. Actually, we do sadly have another attraction that clogs the streets with tourists twice each summer: antiques. The number of antique shops in my general area (I mean within about 5 minutes drive of my house) should be illegal. As for the idiotic tourists who park in front of my driveway to go INTO the bars after they've spent all day walking through the middle of a state route in front of traffic... they should be arrested or something. Just for annoying the locals. Fea
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07-27-2004, 09:03 AM | #287 |
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It's time to smash Fea's illusion about me...sorry Fea, but it was too amusing to spoil right away. I do not live in England. I live in America. I just know British slang from a book I picked up called the British Phrasebook...
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07-27-2004, 09:19 AM | #288 |
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Ooh, harsh, Elennar. Very harsh. My happy little bubble just burst on me and its all your fault. Whereabouts in America are you from? We've got a big country, if you hadn't noticed.
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07-27-2004, 09:23 AM | #289 |
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Utah. And I actually didn't know most of the American slang you sent me...
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07-27-2004, 09:27 AM | #290 |
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Haha... hilarious. I guess I was right in that it's localized slang. Common use in my neck of the woods. I assume you were familiar with y'all?
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07-27-2004, 09:59 AM | #291 |
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That and wazzup.
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07-27-2004, 10:44 AM | #292 |
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I'm from Fayetteville, North Carolina, about two hours from the ocean.
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07-27-2004, 11:35 AM | #293 | |
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I have come to the conclusion that, of a vast majority of forums I have seen, even ones that are supposed to be more internationally based, this one really breaks the borders of that. We have folk from all o'er the globe, much more than other places, and are very far from splitting into our own respective national cliques (or are they called 'ostentations' now?). As we are all intellectuals (save myself, who is more of a dreamer) we all carry on more as if, rather than the forums being international, they are simply universal, which is a very respectable trait. Son of Numenor: As a neighbor of ye Marylanders, I've never considered Maryland to be an "Eh, we're mediocre" state, especially since I have to commute there so often. You know, there might be enough Downers living in NC, Maryland, VA, and along the East Coast to have a East Coast BDers' Meeting...hmm... P.S. To you Marylanders, if you ever see a bright red PT cruiser (in something that might be called 'mint condition') with something that looks like a shimmering silver cow-cather on its front drive past your home, ignore it, because it's completely unimportant.
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07-27-2004, 12:21 PM | #294 |
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Mithalwen - I'd guess you're from near the New Forest then? I once stayed there, in a log cabin deep in the woods, and it was very peculiar and creepy, but lovely.
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07-27-2004, 12:35 PM | #295 |
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I live in the U.S. Was born & raised in VA, but have now lived in WV for 9 yrs.
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07-28-2004, 04:41 AM | #296 | |
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07-28-2004, 07:05 AM | #297 |
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I won't complain too much, since I rather like my climate. For a sneak peek at the weather in Fea's life: June to September is summer. The weather is normally hot, sunny, and all around summery, with late night thunderstorms and the occasional late afternoon downpour. September to say... the end of October is the most beautiful autumn in the world, if I do say so myself. All scarlet and golden,with gentle breezes or wild gusts, depending on the hour. Its rather common for us to get icestorms on Halloween, and then winter lasts until April. Now I'm hearing Americans complain about rainy winters, well let me tell you: I'm a New Yorker. Central New York. That means lake effect snowstorms dropping multiple feet at a time. That means screaming winds and hellish fury power-outages. And mixed in between, we get ice and rain storms to leave nice invisible layers of ice under the snow. And that's the winter I love. We've got some two monthes of spring after that. But winter is the longest season here, starting with light snow in early October, progressing to blizzards and fun snow, teasing us with an early January thaw, and then freezing us back indoors until midApril. And we get the occasional May snowstorm. I LOOOOOVE New York. (Except for right now, when it's late July and I'm wearing heavy sleep-pants, a longsleeve shirt with a shortsleeved over top, and SOCKS to keep warm. And I'm still chilled.)
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08-26-2004, 10:12 AM | #298 |
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[QUOTE=Lalwendë]Mithalwen - I'd guess you're from near the New Forest then? I once stayed there, in a log cabin deep in the woods, and it was very peculiar and creepy, but lovely.
I'm from the UK. I'm a Lancastrian, living across the border in Yorkshire; yes, I do like pies, but I haven't got a cloth cap or any Whippets. [/QUOTE Well I w as born in the none too lovely city of Southampton but I have returned to where I grew up ... in the New Forest District Council area and with some forest rights but not within the borders of the National Park they have created curse them... peculiar and lovely is about right lol Lurchers are more the thing round here ...... :P
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09-20-2004, 06:25 AM | #299 |
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Because of quite unexpected changes in my life, I'm leaving Belgium for at least a year, moving to Dublin. I was wondering if there are any Irish Downers for that matter.
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09-20-2004, 07:31 AM | #300 |
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Good Ol' Kanada....or i guess you'll call it Canada...heh...
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10-17-2004, 12:39 AM | #301 |
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Well I am from India.
Any more Indians in here??
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10-17-2004, 11:04 AM | #302 |
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New York and loving it. Go Yankees!
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10-18-2004, 03:18 PM | #303 | |
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10-18-2004, 03:28 PM | #304 |
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Im from our best state Rhode Island USA
by the way this serries is over yankees are going to win but next yearits the d3evil rays you'll see BWAHAHAHAHA with morsul the chocalate schip backing them up they cant lose!
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10-20-2004, 12:57 PM | #305 | |
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10-22-2004, 12:25 PM | #306 | |
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10-22-2004, 01:27 PM | #307 | |
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10-22-2004, 01:38 PM | #308 |
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The book of transatlantic mutual incomprehension might be quite a tome too....
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10-22-2004, 01:43 PM | #309 | |
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The Little Book of British Cool
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10-22-2004, 01:53 PM | #310 |
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Oh don't get me wrong, I love this strange little island and despite the weather, I am not sure I could leave it for ever ... but it was just that "cool" brittannia thing was so embarrassing..... when we try too hard we fail miserabley .... It is the crazy anachronsms I love - the fact that something called "Swan upping" goes on quite legally each year on the Thames, that the entire railway system is brought to a halt by those leaves falling so unexpectedly from the trees each autumn.....
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10-22-2004, 06:33 PM | #313 |
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I am from the very humble state of NC...humble in which I live in the middle of nowhere.
Oh, and just to add to the very enlightening topic going on about the Yanks and Sox,............GO SOX!!!!!
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10-22-2004, 09:36 PM | #314 |
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If people just told the truth where it says "location" we wouldn't need this thread. Not that I mind. I just had to think of something sort of on topic to say so I could tack on something off-topic...
How 'bout them Yankees? ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha They practically have an all-star team, they had a three game lead against a cursed team, and they STILL LOST!! Not that I hate the Yankees (I root for them sometimes), but I was for the Sox this time- it was great to see them finally beat the Yanks. So to all of you around Boston- congrats! To all of you around NY- you'd better go out and buy yourself some better pitching.
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10-22-2004, 11:44 PM | #315 |
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Uhm...*whimper*
I live in Northern Lower Michigan... *glances around to make sure no-one throws a sox at her...*
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10-23-2004, 06:51 AM | #316 |
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I'm from lots of places, Born in New Delhi, India
Grew up in Budapest Doing High School in Bahrain. And by nationality I'm an Indian. That answer your question rutslegolas?
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10-23-2004, 11:10 AM | #317 |
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'British cool' was always 'English cool'. (Did I make that point before?)
How about the tiny, little book of modern Scottish wit? If anyone finds that one, it's probably all lies.
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10-23-2004, 12:11 PM | #318 | |
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Well Little Britain is my current favourite but I have to say that Frasier would rate pretty high in all time rankings ... but even my Kapellmeister friend said that London was best for music .. oh sorry you meant "popular music" :P to reprise and adapt an old skit " At least you have trains, all we have is buses between Basingstoke and Woking...."
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10-23-2004, 12:26 PM | #319 |
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Let me see...
I was born in Great Lakes, Illinois, moved to Adak, Alaska when I was 3, and a year and a half later and ever since, I've been living in Muntinlupa, south of Manila in the Philippines!
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10-23-2004, 01:03 PM | #320 | |
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