Suomalaisia?
Sanna Ollitervo
seuraa tätä keskustelu ryhmää paitsi minä ?
Sanna
Kalle Lintinen
Yes! A whole bunch (I'd guess about five frequent contributors) , but we don't
talk in the 'old language' because of many different reasons: it pisses a lot
of people off, when weird unmarked threads turn out to which only the natives
can answer and because it's Finnish for example..
KalEl
Sylvain Chambon
>Ajattelin ihan mielenkiinnosta kysyä, onko täällä yhtään
>suomalaista, joka seuraa tätä keskustelu ryhmää paitsi minä ?
Oh, oui, quelques uns. Mais je ne suis pas cent pour cent certain
que tout le monde apprécie énormément si on se met tous à parler
notre langue natale, qu'en penses-tu ?
So... English, right?
Sylvain (coat? Naa, it's beautiful and sunny today...)
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Beth Winter
> In article <9as9qf$k7j$1...@ousrvr3.oulu.fi>, Sanna Ollitervo wrote:
>
> >Ajattelin ihan mielenkiinnosta kysyä, onko täällä yhtään
> >suomalaista, joka seuraa tätä keskustelu ryhmää paitsi minä ?
>
> Oh, oui, quelques uns. Mais je ne suis pas cent pour cent certain
> que tout le monde apprécie énormément si on se met tous à parler
> notre langue natale, qu'en penses-tu ?
Akurat to odczucie podzielam w calej rozciaglosci
>
> So... English, right?
Exactly.
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Charles A Lieberman
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_umsgid=<3AD1AD39...@tut.fi>
>we don't
>talk in the 'old language' because of many different reasons: it pisses a lot
>of people off, when weird unmarked threads turn out to which only the natives
>can answer and because it's Finnish for example..
The Finnish doesn't bother me per se (the lack of tagging is a different
issue). I'd advise against posting in any language other than English,
only because English is the language posters and lurkers are most likely
to share in an alt.* group devoted to the works of a British author.
Inuit postings in soc.culture.alaska isn't quite the same thing.
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Gideon Hallett
> In article <9as9qf$k7j$1...@ousrvr3.oulu.fi>, Sanna Ollitervo wrote:
>
> >Ajattelin ihan mielenkiinnosta kysyä, onko täällä yhtään
> >suomalaista, joka seuraa tätä keskustelu ryhmää paitsi minä ?
>
> Oh, oui, quelques uns. Mais je ne suis pas cent pour cent certain
> que tout le monde apprécie énormément si on se met tous à parler
> notre langue natale, qu'en penses-tu ?
Don't vecks me none, z'long as ye grockles dun't get maized an'
thee britches arse-backards if us'en speak praperjab-like.
Arroight with'ee?
Gideon.
Tom Saul
news:slrn9d38nq.1...@localhost.localdomain...
> In article <9as9qf$k7j$1...@ousrvr3.oulu.fi>, Sanna Ollitervo wrote:
>
> >Ajattelin ihan mielenkiinnosta kysyä, onko täällä yhtään
> >suomalaista, joka seuraa tätä keskustelu ryhmää paitsi minä ?
>
> Oh, oui, quelques uns. Mais je ne suis pas cent pour cent certain
> que tout le monde apprécie énormément si on se met tous à parler
> notre langue natale, qu'en penses-tu ?
>
> So... English, right?
Well, either English, or send me a bunch of translation dictionaries.
On second thought, considering my defective fingers, Gibberish
may be better. ;-)
Tom.
Suzi
(diog...@freeuk.com) wibbled...
> Sylvain Chambon wrote:
> > Sanna Ollitervo wrote:
> > >Ajattelin ihan mielenkiinnosta kysyä, onko täällä yhtään [Snip]
> > Oh, oui, quelques uns. Mais je ne suis pas cent pour cent [Snip]
>
> Don't vecks me none, z'long as ye grockles dun't get maized an'
> thee britches arse-backards if us'en speak praperjab-like.
>
> Arroight with'ee?
Iawn, diolch. Dwi'n dysgu Gymraeg [1]
Suzi
[1] And could do with all the practise she can get!
Eric Jarvis
> Sylvain Chambon wrote:
>
> > In article <9as9qf$k7j$1...@ousrvr3.oulu.fi>, Sanna Ollitervo wrote:
> >
> > >Ajattelin ihan mielenkiinnosta kysyä, onko täällä yhtään
> > >suomalaista, joka seuraa tätä keskustelu ryhmää paitsi minä ?
> >
> > Oh, oui, quelques uns. Mais je ne suis pas cent pour cent certain
> > que tout le monde apprécie énormément si on se met tous à parler
> > notre langue natale, qu'en penses-tu ?
>
> Akurat to odczucie podzielam w calej rozciaglosci
>
ay, happen...tha's to speak nowt but English or t'll be too much for
most o' t'group
--
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"live fast, die only if strictly necessary"
Eric Jarvis
> Sylvain Chambon <sgpch...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:slrn9d38nq.1...@localhost.localdomain...
> > In article <9as9qf$k7j$1...@ousrvr3.oulu.fi>, Sanna Ollitervo wrote:
> >
> > >Ajattelin ihan mielenkiinnosta kysyä, onko täällä yhtään
> > >suomalaista, joka seuraa tätä keskustelu ryhmää paitsi minä ?
> >
> > Oh, oui, quelques uns. Mais je ne suis pas cent pour cent certain
> > que tout le monde apprécie énormément si on se met tous à parler
> > notre langue natale, qu'en penses-tu ?
> >
> > So... English, right?
>
> Well, either English, or send me a bunch of translation dictionaries.
>
incidentally...can anyone point me towards any decent online Suomi-
English resources...I had the URL of an online translation
program...but I can't find the blighter
>
> On second thought, considering my defective fingers, Gibberish
> may be better. ;-)
>
after all, it's the international language of Usenet
--
eric - afprelationships in headers
"money can't buy you love, but sometimes dinner
is much more important"
Morgan Lewis
>
> Sylvain Chambon wrote:
>
> > In article <9as9qf$k7j$1...@ousrvr3.oulu.fi>, Sanna Ollitervo wrote:
> >
> > >Ajattelin ihan mielenkiinnosta kysyä, onko täällä yhtään
> > >suomalaista, joka seuraa tätä keskustelu ryhmää paitsi minä ?
> >
> > Oh, oui, quelques uns. Mais je ne suis pas cent pour cent certain
> > que tout le monde apprécie énormément si on se met tous à parler
> > notre langue natale, qu'en penses-tu ?
>
> Akurat to odczucie podzielam w calej rozciaglosci
>
Da'-don/ e-she a? On/-won/'-p.a-the zhi. [1][2]
> >
> > So... English, right?
>
> Exactly.
> --
> Beth Winter
Quite.
[1] Undoubtedly I've mangled this a bit. Osage isn't easy, especially
without a guide to verb conjugation. [3]
[2] It's almost as hard to transcribe in this font as it is to speak,
too.
[3] I'm working on it, piece by piece.
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Richard Bos
> Beth Winter wrote:
> >
> > Sylvain Chambon wrote:
> >
> > > In article <9as9qf$k7j$1...@ousrvr3.oulu.fi>, Sanna Ollitervo wrote:
> > >
> > > >Ajattelin ihan mielenkiinnosta kysyä, onko täällä yhtään
> > > >suomalaista, joka seuraa tätä keskustelu ryhmää paitsi minä ?
> > >
> > > Oh, oui, quelques uns. Mais je ne suis pas cent pour cent certain
> > > que tout le monde apprécie énormément si on se met tous à parler
> > > notre langue natale, qu'en penses-tu ?
> >
> > Akurat to odczucie podzielam w calej rozciaglosci
>
> Da'-don/ e-she a? On/-won/'-p.a-the zhi.
't Zal wel. Desalniettemin geloof ik dat dit wel amusant is voor een
post of twee, maar als de hele groep er zo uit zou zien zou ik 't gauw
voor gezien houden.
Richard
pia
"Richard Bos" <in...@hoekstra-uitgeverij.nl> wrote in message
news:3ad2eef5....@news.worldonline.nl...
[Sanna Ollitervo]
> > > > >Ajattelin ihan mielenkiinnosta kysyä, onko täällä yhtään
> > > > >suomalaista, joka seuraa tätä keskustelu ryhmää paitsi minä ?
On/Yes, there are Finns here.
You seem to be in Oulu University. What do you study?
[Sylvain Chambon]
> > > > Oh, oui, quelques uns. Mais je ne suis pas cent pour cent certain
> > > > que tout le monde apprécie énormément si on se met tous à parler
> > > > notre langue natale, qu'en penses-tu ?
Probably not. Although this display of other exotic languages
may perhaps be taken as such - or what am I talking, it's just a revenge.
Eller vad tror du själv?
[Beth Winter]
> > > Akurat to odczucie podzielam w calej rozciaglosci
Polish I cannot pretend to comprehend...
[Morgan Lewis]
> > Da'-don/ e-she a? On/-won/'-p.a-the zhi.
...and this I don't even have a foggiest idea about what it is for a
language.
> 't Zal wel. Desalniettemin geloof ik dat dit wel amusant is voor een
> post of twee, maar als de hele groep er zo uit zou zien zou ik 't gauw
> voor gezien houden.
So why did you have to add your 2 cents worth then, tyhmä.
pia
Sylvain Chambon
>
>[Sylvain Chambon]
>> > > > Oh, oui, quelques uns. Mais je ne suis pas cent pour cent
>> > > > certain que tout le monde apprécie énormément si on se met
>> > > > tous à parler notre langue natale, qu'en penses-tu ?
>
>Probably not. Although this display of other exotic languages may
>perhaps be taken as such - or what am I talking, it's just a
>revenge. Eller vad tror du själv?
Det var ganska roligt, men nu är det kanske tid att sluta prata
utländska språk, och återvända[1] till engelska...
Anyway, it's just something I do from time to time at work -- if I
get a work-related email in Swedish, I'll answer in French. When at
play, I can sit down and take the time to figure out some Swedish,
and it's generally not very serious if I misunderstand. When
colleagues discuss the brokenness of such-and-such API in Swedish, I
feel it's important that I should be able to understand.
Back to the point... well, this display of forn languages was rather
fun, but now it's getting a bit out of hand and I'm starting to
regret having started it.
Sylvain.
[1] Is that a word? More importantly, is it the right one?
Mary Messall
> Back to the point... well, this display of forn languages was rather
> fun, but now it's getting a bit out of hand and I'm starting to
> regret having started it.
It's fun. I've got a couple of messages dragged over to my "saved"
folder, just because I was impressed down to my socks. AFP is so cool.
Because we can have posts with contain Finnish *and* Osage, and people
from almost every part of the world bickering and pedanting in peace and
harmony.
I'd love to be able to add something, but the only languages I've
studied are German, which is very redundant here, and besides, I was
never that good at it, and Latin, which I'm much better at reading than
writing. Scio linguas parvas, quia Merkin sum.
-Mary
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<9auuh6$plv$1...@library.lspace.org>:
>[Morgan Lewis]
>>> Da'-don/ e-she a? On/-won/'-p.a-the zhi.
>
>...and this I don't even have a foggiest idea about what it
>is for a language.
Osage, see the footnote in the original
Cheers
KeithC
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Keith Willoughby
> In article <BinA6.908$4S3.3...@news2.cableinet.net>, Gideon Hallett
> (diog...@freeuk.com) wibbled...
>
> > Sylvain Chambon wrote:
> > > Sanna Ollitervo wrote:
> > > >Ajattelin ihan mielenkiinnosta kysyä, onko täällä yhtään [Snip]
> > > Oh, oui, quelques uns. Mais je ne suis pas cent pour cent [Snip]
> >
> > Don't vecks me none, z'long as ye grockles dun't get maized an'
> > thee britches arse-backards if us'en speak praperjab-like.
> >
> > Arroight with'ee?
>
> Iawn, diolch. Dwi'n dysgu Gymraeg [1]
Rhoedd finnau yn mynd i sgrifenni Cymraeg, ond rwyt ti 'ma cyntaf.
> [1] And could do with all the practise she can get!
Rhoedd Cymarag yn iaith gyntaf i mi, ond may angen ymarfer gan fi hefyd.
--
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This isn't TV, he isn't William Shatner.
Aquarion
"Keith Willoughby" <ke...@flat222.org> wrote in message
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> su...@lspace.org (Suzi) writes:
>
> > In article <BinA6.908$4S3.3...@news2.cableinet.net>, Gideon Hallett
> > (diog...@freeuk.com) wibbled...
> >
> > > Sylvain Chambon wrote:
> > > > Sanna Ollitervo wrote:
> > > > >Ajattelin ihan mielenkiinnosta kysyä, onko täällä yhtään [Snip]
> > > > Oh, oui, quelques uns. Mais je ne suis pas cent pour cent [Snip]
> > >
> > > Don't vecks me none, z'long as ye grockles dun't get maized an'
> > > thee britches arse-backards if us'en speak praperjab-like.
> > >
> > > Arroight with'ee?
> >
> > Iawn, diolch. Dwi'n dysgu Gymraeg [1]
>
> Rhoedd finnau yn mynd i sgrifenni Cymraeg, ond rwyt ti 'ma cyntaf.
Bless you.
--
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Stevie D
> Mais je ne suis pas cent pour cent certain que tout le monde
> apprécie énormément si on se met tous à parler notre
> langue natale, qu'en penses-tu ?
No hay nada problema con hablar (o escribir, por supuesto) en idiomas
extranjeros. Pero si quieres que las otras lean y respondan - y, más
importante, que tú puedes comprender sus respuestas, es preferible que
esribas en inglés.
> So... English, right?
That's what i just said!
harasseddad
Mary Messall <mmes...@ups.edu> wrote in message
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[snip]
>Scio linguas parvas, quia Merkin sum.
>
esse.
Re vera, illud facere non in animo habeo. Etenim perlecturus sum vobis
catalogum lavandariorum.
Hic incipit. Tibialium paria tria, subuncularum quinque, tunicae duae,
nullum amylum.
Sic, actum est. Mihi plaudere nunc potestis. Die dulci fruimini
credit: Latin for even more occasions - Henry Beard isbn 0-00-255940-4
'spoiler for the translation in case anyone wants to work it out for
themselves first.
S
P
O
I
L
E
R
I bet you think I'm going to say somethng wise and memorable in Latin.
Well I'm not. What I am going to do is to read you my laundry list.
Here it is. Three pairs of socks, five underware, two shirts, no starch.
There, that's it. you can applaud now. have a nice day
MEG
news:3ad48...@news2.vip.uk.com...
<snip>
> Die dulci fruimini
> Translation.. have a nice day
Wow! So much better than HAND.
Now all I've got to do is find the right place to use it.
- MEG
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MP
I know! You managed to pick the one language other than English that I
can read reasonably well (still badly, but much better than say French,
German, Welsh[1], Gaelic, Dutch, Polish, Italian and Japanese). And
stole my line... :-}
MP
[1] Well, I know Ysgol means school, and Bedd (pronounced beth) means,
erm, bed...
Gid Holyoake
share with us..
Snippetry..
> [1] Well, I know Ysgol means school
No it doesn't.. it can mean school, but that's not what it means..
Gid
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Flesh-eating dragon
harasseddad wrote:
> Vos omnes fortasse creditis me aliquid grave ac memorabile Latine dicturum
> esse.
This foretaste of an omelette credits me with a memorable liquid grave with
a Latin inscription in it.
> Re vera, illud facere non in animo habeo. Etenim perlecturus sum vobis
> catalogum lavandariorum.
Regarding Vera, it is out of fashion but she is in the habit of being an
animal. The total number of edible lecturers would fill Vorbis's catalogue
of flower arrangements.
> Hic incipit. Tibialium paria tria, subuncularum quinque, tunicae duae,
> nullum amylum.
I hiccup incessantly. Three times in a row, almost four, that's just today,
but I don't need an asylum.
> Sic, actum est. Mihi plaudere nunc potestis. Die dulci fruimini
Sick, I may be. I plunder naked protestors. Die, musical fruitcake.
> I bet you think I'm going to say somethng wise and memorable in Latin.
> Well I'm not. What I am going to do is to read you my laundry list.
> Here it is. Three pairs of socks, five underware, two shirts, no starch.
> There, that's it. you can applaud now. have a nice day
Dammit, I got it wrong. :-(
Adrian.
Keith Willoughby
> and Bedd (pronounced beth) means,
> erm, bed...
Grave. Gweli is bed.
Siobhan
> > Vos omnes fortasse creditis me aliquid grave ac memorabile Latine
dicturum
> > esse.
>
> This foretaste of an omelette credits me with a memorable liquid grave
with
> a Latin inscription in it.
I laughed so much I almost wet myself. Literally. Thank you. :oD
Siobhan. "Qui a coupe le fromage?"[1][2]
[1] I think there should be an acute over the first e. I'm sorry.
[2] This is the only thing I can say after 5 years of school French.
--
"She's well liked among class-mates of both sexes. And yet, strangely, she
turns my stomach."
- Daria
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Flesh-eating dragon
> > This foretaste of an omelette credits me with a memorable liquid grave
> > with a Latin inscription in it.
> *snip*
>
> I laughed so much I almost wet myself. Literally. Thank you. :oD
It's often the way. Dad and I often have well-defined roles when it comes to
afp. My job is to read it, and his job is to say, "He's wetting himself
again" at regular intervals.
I've had a couple of stressful days. Two days ago I was shouting my head off
at a carrot because my (cheapo) knife wouldn't cut it properly - had I been
in a clearer frame of mind I would have shouted at the knife instead. But
today I'm on Easter break and my sense of humour may have experienced the
effects of a sudden drop in my stress levels, as well as the fresh country
air. Fresh air has to be my favourite hallucinogenic drug. Addictive?
Certainly. Hallucinogenic? Those of you who inhale it passively, believe me,
what you are seeing is *not* reality.
> Siobhan. "Qui a coupe le fromage?"[1][2]
Worth framing? Wow, thanks!
Adrian.
Suzi
news:MPG.153efff16...@nntp.netcomuk.co.uk...
> In article <3AD4E0D2...@softhome.net>, MP generously decided to
> share with us..
>
> Snippetry..
>
> > [1] Well, I know Ysgol means school
>
> No it doesn't.. it can mean school, but that's not what it means..
Now that's just plain cruel, not telling them what it means. OK - one of
the things I have found out since moving here is that Welsh is an
idiomatic language in a lot of cases. Ysgol is a conceptual word which
vaguely means "something to get you to the top" or "something to
climb"... thus the word Ysgol can mean "school" and it can also mean
"ladder" (depending on context of course) :-)
Of course... if your Welsh education is limited to roadsigns the "Ysgol
= School" mistake is easy to make :-)
Suzi
(whose own Welsh education is extremely limited... but one thing it has
shown up is that North Welsh and South Welsh are not the same language -
they have some totally different words for some of the same things! Even
South West Welsh and South East Welsh aren't consistent for
pronunciation... and I thought English was bad enough for foreigners
<g>)
Thomas Wolmer HG/ERA/SZA/HE
> Det var ganska roligt, men nu är det kanske tid att sluta prata
> utländska språk, och återvända[1] till engelska...
[...]
> [1] Is that a word? More importantly, is it the right one?
Yes and yes. OTOH, I'd exchange 'tid' for 'dags'.
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Mike Knell
"Suzi" <Su...@lspace.org> wrote:
>(whose own Welsh education is extremely limited... but one thing it has
>shown up is that North Welsh and South Welsh are not the same language -
>they have some totally different words for some of the same things!
Same thing happens in English, though -- they're called dialects. Try
travelling around the UK sometime with a bread roll and asking people
"what's this?". You'll get an enormous variety of responses, all the
way from "bap" and "roll" up to "cob" and, if you carry on your research
for long enough, "a very mouldy roll. please take it away.".
Mike "avoiding the 'nice baps' line" K.
MEG
news:9b4dq8$jrh$1...@lugh.tuatha.org...
> Try
> travelling around the UK sometime with a bread roll and asking people
> "what's this?". You'll get an enormous variety of responses, all the
> way from "bap" and "roll" up to "cob" and, if you carry on your research
> for long enough, "a very mouldy roll. please take it away.".
It's a batch.
If it's got bacon in it, it's a bacon batch.
<Homer> Mmmm.. bacon batch... </Homer>
MP
>
> Gid Holyoake <G...@brynamman.org.uk> wrote in message
> news:MPG.153efff16...@nntp.netcomuk.co.uk...
> > In article <3AD4E0D2...@softhome.net>, MP generously decided to
> > share with us..
> >
> > Snippetry..
> >
> > > [1] Well, I know Ysgol means school
> >
> > No it doesn't.. it can mean school, but that's not what it means..
>
> Now that's just plain cruel, not telling them what it means. OK - one of
> the things I have found out since moving here is that Welsh is an
> idiomatic language in a lot of cases. Ysgol is a conceptual word which
> vaguely means "something to get you to the top" or "something to
> climb"... thus the word Ysgol can mean "school"
?????????????? Sorry, but I know about schools! Get to top, therefore
for Bill Gates Ysgol means Microsoft... (apologies!)
> and it can also mean "ladder" (depending on context of course) :-)
Must try that next time I find a friend in tights: "You've got a ysgol
in your tights..." :-}
> Of course... if your Welsh education is limited to roadsigns the "Ysgol
> = School" mistake is easy to make :-)
My Welsh education is limited to a sign in a carpark of a school, and
various holidays to Beddgelert (which has a sign by it saying somthing
like "The name means 'bed of Gelert', Gelert being the doggie...)
MP
MP
>
> Gid Holyoake <G...@brynamman.org.uk> wrote in message
> news:MPG.153efff16...@nntp.netcomuk.co.uk...
> > In article <3AD4E0D2...@softhome.net>, MP generously decided to
> > share with us..
> >
> > Snippetry..
> >
> > > [1] Well, I know Ysgol means school
> >
> > No it doesn't.. it can mean school, but that's not what it means..
>
> Now that's just plain cruel, not telling them what it means. OK - one of
> the things I have found out since moving here is that Welsh is an
> idiomatic language in a lot of cases. Ysgol is a conceptual word which
> vaguely means "something to get you to the top" or "something to
> climb"... thus the word Ysgol can mean "school"
?????????????? Sorry, but I know about schools! Get to top, therefore
for Bill Gates Ysgol means Microsoft... (apologies!)
> and it can also mean "ladder" (depending on context of course) :-)
Must try that next time I find a friend in tights: "You've got a ysgol
in your tights..." :-}
> Of course... if your Welsh education is limited to roadsigns the "Ysgol
> = School" mistake is easy to make :-)
My Welsh education is limited to a sign in a carpark of a school, and
Flesh-eating dragon
Darin Johnson wrote, quoting myself:
> > > Siobhan. "Qui a coupe le fromage?"[1][2]
> >
> > Worth framing? Wow, thanks!
>
> What's this? Does Nanny Ogg have a new set of language tapes I've
> missed out on?
You've lost me.
Adrian.
Jenny Radcliffe
For an entertaining few minutes with some students [1], think about the
little black shoes with elastic across the top which you used to have to
wear for Physical Education? What did *you* call them ...?
[1]Or any other group of multi-origined people, I suppose.
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Suzi
jenny.r...@physics.org wibbled...
[Snip]
> For an entertaining few minutes with some students [1], think about the
> little black shoes with elastic across the top which you used to have to
> wear for Physical Education? What did *you* call them ...?
Well, coming from a wonderfully diverse background (one Grandparent from
Lancashire, one from Bedfordshire and the other two from Devon)...
Plimsolls
or
Daps
Suzi
Ailbhe Leamy
<jenny.r...@physics.org> wrote:
> For an entertaining few minutes with some students [1], think about the
> little black shoes with elastic across the top which you used to have to
> wear for Physical Education? What did *you* call them ...?
Rubber dollies. No, I don't know why.
Ailbhe
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>Mike Knell <user...@vanitydomain.org> wrote
>> "what's this?". You'll get an enormous variety of responses, all the
>> way from "bap" and "roll" up to "cob"
oooh, now I would call some things cobs and other things baps, and
rolls are something different again (though I'm aware that shops don't
think so): stotties are a particular sort, baps are flatter than rolls
imo, and cobs are harder; though that could be because the only
experience I had of cobs was the home-made sort, and I met the flat
ones when I went away and people called them baps.... oh, just ignore
me ok?
>For an entertaining few minutes with some students [1], think about the
>little black shoes with elastic across the top which you used to have to
>wear for Physical Education? What did *you* call them ...?
plimmys. Short for plimsolls. (The lace-ups and the white ones were
called the same.) Is there another name? That's one we *didn't*
investigate in our first term...
Logical bonds
Julie
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> For an entertaining few minutes with some students [1], think about the
> little black shoes with elastic across the top which you used to have to
> wear for Physical Education? What did *you* call them ...?
>
> [1]Or any other group of multi-origined people, I suppose.
Pumps.
- MEG owf
Siobhan
> For an entertaining few minutes with some students [1], think about the
> little black shoes with elastic across the top which you used to have to
> wear for Physical Education? What did *you* call them ...?
The ones with the soft soles? they're Jiffies. I'm pretty sure that's a
trade name, but I don't think they have a generic name in XXXX.
Siobhan
Peter Ellis
>"Jenny Radcliffe" <jenny.r...@physics.org> wrote in message
>news:9bnag7$4n7$1...@library.lspace.org...
>> For an entertaining few minutes with some students [1], think about the
>> little black shoes with elastic across the top which you used to have to
>> wear for Physical Education? What did *you* call them ...?
>>
>> [1]Or any other group of multi-origined people, I suppose.
>
>Pumps.
>
Mum called them "plimsolls". Then one day randomly switched to "daps" (we
never *did* work out why...) I didn't call them anything, I just scowled.
Peter
Richard Bos
> For an entertaining few minutes with some students [1], think about the
> little black shoes with elastic across the top which you used to have to
> wear for Physical Education? What did *you* call them ...?
Gym shoes. Or "gympen", for short, but that's Dutch. Mine were always
laced, though; the elastic ones were usually worn by girls. Don't ask me
why.
Richard
Sylvain Chambon
wrote:
>"Jenny Radcliffe" <jenny.r...@physics.org> wrote:
>
>> For an entertaining few minutes with some students [1], think
>> about the little black shoes with elastic across the top which
>> you used to have to wear for Physical Education? What did *you*
>> call them ...?
>
>Gym shoes.
Gym slippers for me (Chaussons de gymnastique).
>Mine were always laced, though; the elastic ones were usually worn
>by girls. Don't ask me why.
I don't remember having ever worn some. I couldn't tell you want
kind they were. If they existed.
Sylvain.
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news:9bnag7$4n7$1...@library.lspace.org...
| For an entertaining few minutes with some students [1], think about the
| little black shoes with elastic across the top which you used to have to
| wear for Physical Education? What did *you* call them ...?
Ooooh... they still wear 'em (at least as long as they have no choice in the
matter, anyroad. Which in this house is until about 10 y.o.) :o)
We called them Sannies. (from sandshoes?).
Or Jimmy's (gymmies -> gym shoes).
Black or white, lace up or elastic. Mum used to 'take in' the elastic on mine
before I learned to tie laces - otherwise they fell off :o)
My kids (boringly) call them 'gym shoes' or 'PE shoes'.
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Menno
<jenny.r...@physics.org> wrote:
> For an entertaining few minutes with some students [1], think about the
> little black shoes with elastic across the top which you used to have to
> wear for Physical Education? What did *you* call them ...?
Gympies.
Though ours used to be dominantly yellow and made of wood...
Grtz,
Menno
Lorne Smith
Darin Johnson wrote:
>
> "Jenny Radcliffe" <jenny.r...@physics.org> writes:
>
> > For an entertaining few minutes with some students [1], think
> > about the little black shoes with elastic across the top which
> > you used to have to wear for Physical Education? What did
> > *you* call them ...?
> >
>
> I can't even imagine what these are. In the states, "tennis
> shoes" were it when I grew up (now they've got basketball shoes,
> and jogging shoes, and cross trainers, etc; but they were all
> tennies to us). And white was the typical color.
Here, in Canada, at-the-dawn-a-time, girls wore running shoes or
sneakers (white, lace-up, rubber-soled, canvas-topped) and boys
wore high-tops (black canvas tops, white rubber soles and toe-
caps, and white rubber disks over the ankle bone protrubance
on both sides of the ankle, laced to the top of the ankle) in
the gym for PE or Fizz-Ed class.
Poor kids wore gender-appropriate sneakers all the time, and
flashy girls wore coloured sneakers - red, pink, or green.
*Fast* girls wore *black* low-top sneakers.
And *then* there were those stupid tights where the crotch
bagged to your knees where you jumped rope. Argh.
*ahem*
April (back from the blasted past).
the_peanut_gallery
> "Jenny Radcliffe" <jenny.r...@physics.org> wrote in message
> news:9bnag7$4n7$1...@library.lspace.org...
> | For an entertaining few minutes with some students [1], think about
> the | little black shoes with elastic across the top which you used to
> have to | wear for Physical Education? What did *you* call them ...?
> Ooooh... they still wear 'em (at least as long as they have no choice
> in the matter, anyroad. Which in this house is until about 10 y.o.)
> :o)
> We called them Sannies. (from sandshoes?).
Sandshoes where I grew up (West of Scotland)
--
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Grymma
"the_peanut_gallery" <the_peanu...@spamcop.net> wrote in message
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Le 20-avr-01, Grymma a écrit :
> We called them Sannies. (from sandshoes?).
Sandshoes where I grew up (West of Scotland)
...which is exactly where I am, and where I did a fair bit of my schooling
:o))
Edwin Brady
> "the_peanut_gallery" <the_peanu...@spamcop.net> wrote in message
> news:Yam2NN.AmigaOS.4...@wanadoo.fr...
> Le 20-avr-01, Grymma a écrit :
>
>
> > We called them Sannies. (from sandshoes?).
>
> Sandshoes where I grew up (West of Scotland)
>
> ...which is exactly where I am, and where I did a fair bit of my schooling
> :o))
Sandshoes in Northumberland too...
We did a similar geographical experiment at work a couple of years ago
- what do you call that game where you knock on someone's door and run
away before they answer?
"Knocky nine door" where I come from...
Edwin.
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Jenny Radcliffe
> "Grymma" <Gry...@wibble.co.invalid> writes:
> > "the_peanut_gallery" <the_peanu...@spamcop.net> wrote in
> > message news:Yam2NN.AmigaOS.4...@wanadoo.fr...
> > Le 20-avr-01, Grymma a écrit :
> > > We called them Sannies. (from sandshoes?).
> > Sandshoes where I grew up (West of Scotland)
> > ...which is exactly where I am, and where I did a fair bit of my
> > schooling :o))
> Sandshoes in Northumberland too...
Clearly daps aren't something most people call them ...
> We did a similar geographical experiment at work a couple of years
> ago - what do you call that game where you knock on someone's door
> and run away before they answer?
> "Knocky nine door" where I come from...
TO get the ball rolling [1], we called it Knock knock ginger.
But I was too much of a goody-two-shoes to do anything like that.
[1] Edwin and I have had this damn conversation so many times with one
group of people or another ...
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> "Grymma" <Gry...@wibble.co.invalid> writes:
>> "the_peanut_gallery" <the_peanu...@spamcop.net> wrote in message
>> news:Yam2NN.AmigaOS.4...@wanadoo.fr...
>> Le 20-avr-01, Grymma a écrit :
>>
>>
>> > We called them Sannies. (from sandshoes?).
>>
>> Sandshoes where I grew up (West of Scotland)
>>
>> ...which is exactly where I am, and where I did a fair bit of my schooling
>> :o))
> Sandshoes in Northumberland too...
> We did a similar geographical experiment at work a couple of years ago
> - what do you call that game where you knock on someone's door and run
> away before they answer?
> "Knocky nine door" where I come from...
Chap-door-runaway where I was (Ayrshire, West of Scotland)
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Ailbhe Leamy
> We did a similar geographical experiment at work a couple of years ago
> - what do you call that game where you knock on someone's door and run
> away before they answer?
>
> "Knocky nine door" where I come from...
Knick-knocks.
Rebel Without A Pause
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> On 22 Apr 2001 17:03:28 +0100, Edwin Brady <e.c....@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
> > We did a similar geographical experiment at work a couple of years ago
> > - what do you call that game where you knock on someone's door and run
> > away before they answer?
> >
Knock 'n' dash up here in Cumbria...
Charlotte
Grymma
"Edwin Brady" <e.c....@durham.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:87oftov...@cs-186.dur.ac.uk...
| We did a similar geographical experiment at work a couple of years ago
| - what do you call that game where you knock on someone's door and run
| away before they answer?
|
| "Knocky nine door" where I come from...
"Knock down ginger", for the version we played, where you balanced a bottle on
the door handle...
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Adrian Ogden
>Edwin Brady <e.c....@durham.ac.uk> wrote
>> We did a similar geographical experiment at work a couple of years
>> ago - what do you call that game where you knock on someone's door
>> and run away before they answer?
>> "Knocky nine door" where I come from...
>TO get the ball rolling [1], we called it Knock knock ginger.
We called it knock down ginger.
<< Adrian Ogden -- "Sic Biscuitus Disintegrat" -- A.N....@reading.ac.uk >>
"My grandmother always used to say that violence is the last refuge of the
green humpty people. Mind you, she was quite heavily on the Prozac."
Aquarion
"Jenny Radcliffe" <jenny.r...@physics.org> wrote in message
news:9bnag7$4n7$1...@library.lspace.org...
> For an entertaining few minutes with some students [1], think about the
> little black shoes with elastic across the top which you used to have to
> wear for Physical Education? What did *you* call them ...?
>
> [1]Or any other group of multi-origined people, I suppose.
YG&SFA, *Now* look what you've done :)
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Jenny Radcliffe
> "Jenny Radcliffe" <jenny.r...@physics.org> wrote
> > For an entertaining few minutes with some students [1], think about > >
the little black shoes with elastic across the top which you used
> > to have to wear for Physical Education? What did *you* call
> > them ...?
> > [1]Or any other group of multi-origined people, I suppose.
> YG&SFA, *Now* look what you've done :)
I *meant* to - look, an uncontentious debate!
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Gideon Hallett
<jenny.r...@physics.org> shared with us:
>Edwin Brady <e.c....@durham.ac.uk> wrote
>> "Grymma" <Gry...@wibble.co.invalid> writes:
>> > "the_peanut_gallery" <the_peanu...@spamcop.net> wrote in
>> > message news:Yam2NN.AmigaOS.4...@wanadoo.fr...
>> > Le 20-avr-01, Grymma a écrit :
>> > > We called them Sannies. (from sandshoes?).
>> > Sandshoes where I grew up (West of Scotland)
>> > ...which is exactly where I am, and where I did a fair bit of my
>> > schooling :o))
>> Sandshoes in Northumberland too...
>
>Clearly daps aren't something most people call them ...
Daps were the name we had for them in Somerset (well, it was Avon
back them).
Or Plimsolls, if you wanted to be posh.
>> We did a similar geographical experiment at work a couple of years
>> ago - what do you call that game where you knock on someone's door
>> and run away before they answer?
>> "Knocky nine door" where I come from...
>
>TO get the ball rolling [1], we called it Knock knock ginger.
For us, it was Knock-down Ginger.
>But I was too much of a goody-two-shoes to do anything like that.
Same here. And with The Adventure Game on TV at 18:00, there were
more interesting things to be doing...
Gideon.
(gronda, gronda, Rangdo...)
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melcha
wrote:
>On 22 Apr 2001 17:03:28 +0100, Edwin Brady <e.c....@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
>> We did a similar geographical experiment at work a couple of years ago
>> - what do you call that game where you knock on someone's door and run
>> away before they answer?
>>
>> "Knocky nine door" where I come from...
>
>Knick-knocks.
>
Nicky non door.
-Maaike
Aquarion
> Aquarion <use...@aquarionics.com> wrote
> > "Jenny Radcliffe" <jenny.r...@physics.org> wrote
> > > For an entertaining few minutes with some students [1], think about >
>
> the little black shoes with elastic across the top which you used
> > > to have to wear for Physical Education? What did *you* call
> > > them ...?
> > > [1]Or any other group of multi-origined people, I suppose.
> > YG&SFA, *Now* look what you've done :)
>
> I *meant* to - look, an uncontentious debate!
ITYM "Cascade" :-)
MEG
news:3ae32632...@news1.nf.sympatico.ca...
Rat-a-tat Ginger. (Coventry)
- MEG
MP
<e.c....@durham.ac.uk> wrote, on 22 Apr 2001 17:03:28 +0100, that:
>We did a similar geographical experiment at work a couple of years ago
>- what do you call that game where you knock on someone's door and run
>away before they answer?
>
>"Knocky nine door" where I come from...
"Bloody annoying" where I come from... :-}[1] Or "Knock and Run" by
the plonkers who played it...
MP
[1] Or at least until we had the turret fitted... [2]
[2] Because we're nice it doesn't fire live rounds[3]
[3] It grabs the "player" and fires them instead... :-}
Bluebottle
Same for me in London and Essex.
> >But I was too much of a goody-two-shoes to do anything like that.
>
> Same here. And with The Adventure Game on TV at 18:00, there were
> more interesting things to be doing...
>
> Gideon.
>
> (gronda, gronda, Rangdo...)
Oooh! Aspidistra!
For years I thought I was imagining that program as no-one else seemed
to remember it - the main things that stuck in my mind were the
coloured tokens and the computer maze.
For those feeling similarly nostalgic, try;
http://www.joolsweb.co.uk/tag/index2.htm
They don't make programs like they used to.... *sigh*
Julie
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Eric Jarvis
> "melcha" <moust...@purpleturtle.com> wrote in message
> news:3ae32632...@news1.nf.sympatico.ca...
> > On 22 Apr 2001 17:21:43 GMT, ailbh...@lspace.org (Ailbhe Leamy)
> > wrote:
> > >On 22 Apr 2001 17:03:28 +0100, Edwin Brady <e.c....@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
> > >> We did a similar geographical experiment at work a couple of years ago
> > >> - what do you call that game where you knock on someone's door and run
> > >> away before they answer?
> > >>
> > >> "Knocky nine door" where I come from...
> > >
> > >Knick-knocks.
> > >
> > Nicky non door.
>
> Rat-a-tat Ginger. (Coventry)
>
one of the great disadvantages of growing up in a small rural
village where NOBODY locked their doors is that it totally removed
the point of the game...we never played it...it would have just
been:
*knock, knock*
*whispered conversation*
and then, depending on whether there were any bills due, either:
"kitchen door's open"
or
*protracted silence*
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is much more important"
Eric Jarvis
> Aquarion <use...@aquarionics.com> wrote
> > "Jenny Radcliffe" <jenny.r...@physics.org> wrote
> > > For an entertaining few minutes with some students [1], think about > >
> the little black shoes with elastic across the top which you used
> > > to have to wear for Physical Education? What did *you* call
> > > them ...?
> > > [1]Or any other group of multi-origined people, I suppose.
> > YG&SFA, *Now* look what you've done :)
>
> I *meant* to - look, an uncontentious debate!
>
oh no it isn't!
sorry...I won't do it again...at least not tonight
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Gideon Hallett
shared with us:
>ssso...@reading.ac.uk (Adrian Ogden) writes:
>
>> >> We did a similar geographical experiment at work a couple of years
>> >> ago - what do you call that game where you knock on someone's door
>> >> and run away before they answer?
>> >> "Knocky nine door" where I come from...
>>
>> >TO get the ball rolling [1], we called it Knock knock ginger.
>>
>> We called it knock down ginger.
>
>We called it the "knocking on someone's door then running way" game.
You are Leonard of Quirm, and I claim my five pounds.
Gideon.
Peter Ellis
>
>We called it the "knocking on someone's door then running way" game.
>
This would be in Quirm, yesno?
Peter
Arwen Lune
e.c....@durham.ac.uk said in alt.fan.pratchett:
> We did a similar geographical experiment at work a couple of years ago
> - what do you call that game where you knock on someone's door and run
> away before they answer?
'belletje lellen'
HTH, HAND
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(Reference: <3ae31908...@news.blueyonder.co.uk>)
>Or Plimsolls, if you wanted to be posh.
I've always tried to draw a line at those.
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Jacqui
> Adrian Ogden writes:
>
> > >> We did a similar geographical experiment at work a couple of years
> > >> ago - what do you call that game where you knock on someone's door
> > >> and run away before they answer?
> > >> "Knocky nine door" where I come from...
> >
> > >TO get the ball rolling [1], we called it Knock knock ginger.
> >
> > We called it knock down ginger.
>
Granny-knocking.
Jac
Natalie Mayer
Arwen Lune <ar...@meanandevil.co.uk> wrote:
>And lo! On the day of 22 Apr 2001 17:03:28 +0100, Edwin Brady
>e.c....@durham.ac.uk said in alt.fan.pratchett:
>
>> We did a similar geographical experiment at work a couple of years ago
>> - what do you call that game where you knock on someone's door and run
>> away before they answer?
>
>'belletje lellen'
In a similar vein, "Klingelputz"[1].
nattie
no i'm not realy posting
[1] That is *not* in Yiddish.
Supermouse
>And lo! On the day of 22 Apr 2001 17:03:28 +0100, Edwin Brady
>e.c....@durham.ac.uk said in alt.fan.pratchett:
>
>> We did a similar geographical experiment at work a couple of years ago
>> - what do you call that game where you knock on someone's door and run
>> away before they answer?
Knock-a-door Run
Almost, but not quite Quirmish.
Cordially,
--
Supermouse
Aquarion
>ssso...@reading.ac.uk (Adrian Ogden) writes:
>
>> >> We did a similar geographical experiment at work a couple of years
>> >> ago - what do you call that game where you knock on someone's door
>> >> and run away before they answer?
>> >> "Knocky nine door" where I come from...
>>
>> >TO get the ball rolling [1], we called it Knock knock ginger.
>>
>> We called it knock down ginger.
>
>We called it the "knocking on someone's door then running way" game.
Now, for *extra* fun, find some poor sap on an evening paper-round,
and knock on the doors about 10 secs before he gets there.
Seven times out of 10, the owner will open the door just as said sap
is putting the paper though the door....
Yours in total sincerity,
Aquarion.
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Aquarion
<er...@last.dircon.co.uk> wrote:
>Jenny Radcliffe wrote:
>> Aquarion <use...@aquarionics.com> wrote
>> > "Jenny Radcliffe" <jenny.r...@physics.org> wrote
>> > > For an entertaining few minutes with some students [1], think about > >
>> the little black shoes with elastic across the top which you used
>> > > to have to wear for Physical Education? What did *you* call
>> > > them ...?
>> > > [1]Or any other group of multi-origined people, I suppose.
>> > YG&SFA, *Now* look what you've done :)
>>
>> I *meant* to - look, an uncontentious debate!
>>
>
>oh no it isn't!
Oh yes it....
>sorry...I won't do it again...at least not tonight
Grr.
Yours in total sincerity,
Aquarion. Unable to resist a feedline
Quantum Moth
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 00:36:57 +0100, Eric Jarvis
> <er...@last.dircon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >Jenny Radcliffe wrote:
> >> Aquarion <use...@aquarionics.com> wrote
> >> > "Jenny Radcliffe" <jenny.r...@physics.org> wrote
> >> > > For an entertaining few minutes with some students [1], think about > >
> >> the little black shoes with elastic across the top which you used
> >> > > to have to wear for Physical Education? What did *you* call
> >> > > them ...?
> >> > > [1]Or any other group of multi-origined people, I suppose.
> >> > YG&SFA, *Now* look what you've done :)
> >>
> >> I *meant* to - look, an uncontentious debate!
> >>
> >
> >oh no it isn't!
>
> Oh yes it....
>
>
oh no it isn't!
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MP
Hallett) wrote, on Sun, 22 Apr 2001 17:51:39 GMT, that:
>On Sun, 22 Apr 2001 17:09:25 +0100, "Jenny Radcliffe"
><jenny.r...@physics.org> shared with us:
>
>>Edwin Brady <e.c....@durham.ac.uk> wrote
>>> "Grymma" <Gry...@wibble.co.invalid> writes:
>>> > "the_peanut_gallery" <the_peanu...@spamcop.net> wrote in
>>> > message news:Yam2NN.AmigaOS.4...@wanadoo.fr...
>>> > Le 20-avr-01, Grymma a écrit :
>>> > > We called them Sannies. (from sandshoes?).
>>> > Sandshoes where I grew up (West of Scotland)
>>> > ...which is exactly where I am, and where I did a fair bit of my
>>> > schooling :o))
>>> Sandshoes in Northumberland too...
>>
>>Clearly daps aren't something most people call them ...
>
>Daps were the name we had for them in Somerset (well, it was Avon
>back them).
>
>Or Plimsolls, if you wanted to be posh.
>
<snip>
From working in a shoe shop for ages, names I've heard them called
include:
Daps, plimsolls, pumps, sandshoes, gymshoes, gymslips[1], indoor
trainers, canvases, sports slippers, slip-on trainers, slips
and probably a few I've forgotten.
MP
[1] We were very baffled by this particular customer, since _we_
though a gymslip was not really what she wanted for her little boy...
nyra
> Aquarion <use...@aquarionics.com> said...
> > On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 00:36:57 +0100, Eric Jarvis
> > <er...@last.dircon.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > >Jenny Radcliffe wrote:
> > >> Aquarion <use...@aquarionics.com> wrote
> > >> > "Jenny Radcliffe" <jenny.r...@physics.org> wrote
> > >> > > For an entertaining few minutes with some students [1], think about > >
> > >> the little black shoes with elastic across the top which you used
> > >> > > to have to wear for Physical Education? What did *you* call
> > >> > > them ...?
> > >> > > [1]Or any other group of multi-origined people, I suppose.
> > >> > YG&SFA, *Now* look what you've done :)
> > >>
> > >> I *meant* to - look, an uncontentious debate!
> > >>
> > >
> > >oh no it isn't!
> >
> > Oh yes it....
> >
> >
> oh no it isn't!
The twenty- five lines you paid for are up. You can get another dozen for a florin.
Aquarion
wrote:
>Aquarion <use...@aquarionics.com> said...
>> On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 00:36:57 +0100, Eric Jarvis
>> <er...@last.dircon.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> >Jenny Radcliffe wrote:
>> >> Aquarion <use...@aquarionics.com> wrote
>> >> > "Jenny Radcliffe" <jenny.r...@physics.org> wrote
>> >> > > For an entertaining few minutes with some students [1], think about > >
>> >> the little black shoes with elastic across the top which you used
>> >> > > to have to wear for Physical Education? What did *you* call
>> >> > > them ...?
>> >> > > [1]Or any other group of multi-origined people, I suppose.
>> >> > YG&SFA, *Now* look what you've done :)
>> >>
>> >> I *meant* to - look, an uncontentious debate!
>> >>
>> >
>> >oh no it isn't!
>>
>> Oh yes it....
>>
>>
>oh no it isn't!
Oh Yes it isn't!
Yours in total sincerity,
Aquarion. When in doubt, let a canary among the pigeons
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Denis Hackney
> Quantum Moth wrote:
>> Aquarion wrote:
>>> On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 00:36:57 +0100, Eric Jarvis
>>> Oh yes it....
>> oh no it isn't!
> Oh Yes it isn't!
Oh no - It is...
...another panto cascade. :)
Breifly,
Denis.
--
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I was looking back to see if you were looking back at me
to see me looking back at you...
Andy Davison
<3ae4acd6...@news.britishlibrary.net>, m...@unseenuniversity.org
(MP) wrote:
>From working in a shoe shop for ages, names I've heard them called
>include:
>Daps, plimsolls, pumps, sandshoes, gymshoes, gymslips[1], indoor
>trainers, canvases, sports slippers, slip-on trainers, slips
>
>and probably a few I've forgotten.
<mode=Pete&Dud> Gymnasium slippers </mode>
MP
<andy.d...@btinternet.com> wrote, on Tue, 24 Apr 2001 08:22:08
+0100, that:
<Innocent query mode>Were you there then? What were you doing in my
shoe shop? It was horrible!</innocent query mode>
MP (who is not mentioning what shoeshop it was, since he's got no wish
to be got for libel...>
MP
<dhac...@optusnet.com.au> wrote, on Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:32:02 +1000,
that:
>Aquarion wrote:
>> Quantum Moth wrote:
>>> Aquarion wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 00:36:57 +0100, Eric Jarvis
>>>>> oh no it isn't!
>>>> Oh yes it....
>>> oh no it isn't!
>> Oh Yes it isn't!
>
>Oh no - It is...
>
>...another panto cascade. :)
<quiet mode> I shall resist. I _shall_ resist. </quiet mode>
MP (Oh, no he won't...)
Aquarion
Do, or do not. Preferably the latter.
Yours in total sincerity,
Aquarion
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> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 18:23:40 GMT, m...@unseenuniversity.org (MP) wrote:
>
> >Hmm, he may be wrong, but MP thinks that Denis Hackney
> ><dhac...@optusnet.com.au> wrote, on Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:32:02 +1000,
> >that:
> >
> >>Aquarion wrote:
> >>> Quantum Moth wrote:
> >>>> Aquarion wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 00:36:57 +0100, Eric Jarvis
> >>>>>> oh no it isn't!
> >>>>> Oh yes it....
> >>>> oh no it isn't!
> >>> Oh Yes it isn't!
> >>
> >>Oh no - It is...
> >>
> >>...another panto cascade. :)
> >
> ><quiet mode> I shall resist. I _shall_ resist. </quiet mode>
> >
> >MP (Oh, no he won't...)
>
> Do, or do not. Preferably the latter.
Ah yes. The Panto is strong in that one.
Richard
Aquarion
Gosh, You think? I mean, me, abstainer from all cliched responces and
all forms of performance :-D
Yours in total sincerity,
Aquarion
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Kincaid
Aquarion <use...@aquarionics.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 12:26:01 GMT, in...@hoekstra-uitgeverij.nl (Richard
> Bos) wrote:
> >Aquarion <use...@aquarionics.com> wrote:
> >> Do, or do not. Preferably the latter.
> >Ah yes. The Panto is strong in that one.
> Gosh, You think? I mean, me, abstainer from all cliched responces and
> all forms of performance :-D
I've got only one thing to say to that.
"When Santa Kissed The Fairy On the Christmas Tree", Stefan Bednaczy.
You *asked* for that :-)
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Aquarion
wrote:
I ask for nothing.
I get it.
Elliott Grasett
"Aquarion" <use...@aquarionics.com> wrote in message
news:il29et4hv3m85k4ua...@4ax.com...
<snip>
> Now, for *extra* fun, find some poor sap on an evening paper-round,
> and knock on the doors about 10 secs before he gets there.
> Seven times out of 10, the owner will open the door just as said sap
> is putting the paper though the door....
>
victim's knocker, and hide in the shrubbery. Assuming that the victim
(a) failed to spot the thread, and
(b) failed to hear us giggling in the shrubbery
we could knock again, the instant his back was turned.
--
Elliott
Joannie (the quondam Joan of Arc) "What are friends for?"
Attila (the quondam Hun) "Target Practice."
Louise MacMahon
"MP" <m...@unseenuniversity.org> wrote in message
news:3ae5c494...@news.britishlibrary.net...
> >>From working in a shoe shop for ages, names I've heard them called
> >>include:
> >>Daps, plimsolls, pumps, sandshoes, gymshoes, gymslips[1], indoor
> >>trainers, canvases, sports slippers, slip-on trainers, slips
> >>
> >>and probably a few I've forgotten.
In Donegal when I was growing up we called them "gutties". I always thought
it a nonsense word, but on mature reflection I think it comes from gutta :
rubber. (A revelation gained when reading craft catalogues where gutta looms
large)
Louise
Axel Kielhorn
May the Panto be behind you.
Axel
--
But I have a talent, a wonderful thing
'cause everyone's running when I start to sing.
MP
All your panto are belong to us.
<gdr>
MP
Michael dot Grant
>
> In Donegal when I was growing up we called them "gutties".
"Plimsolls" for this Novocastrian-raised afper.
> I always thought it a nonsense word, but on mature reflection I think
> it comes from gutta : rubber. (A revelation gained when reading craft
> catalogues where gutta looms large)
IIRC, gutta percha is not rubber but an isomer of it (the one has all
cis bonds and the other all trans) and is what they make chewing gum out
of.
ppint.
egra...@atconnex.net "Elliott Grasett" confessed:
>
>Our variation, which IIRC was nameless, was to tie a thread to the
>victim's knocker, and hide in the shrubbery. Assuming that the victim
>(a) failed to spot the thread, and
>(b) failed to hear us giggling in the shrubbery
>we could knock again, the instant his back was turned.
>
those in its environs) were not, and it was gone dusk, and
you were *really* careful, and judged it well too, and if
the families down the street hadn't changed the standard
letterbox-cum-long-"u"-shaped-door-knockers -
- you could tie the knockers of up to half a dozen front
doors together, take the trailing end around the corner,
break the cotton off the reel, and gently-but-firmly tug
the trailing end rhythmically, until the first knocker
tapped on the first door...
- you didn't often get more than three or four doors go-
ing, but if you'd judged it just right, and were _very_
lucky, the second or third door-opening would cause the
door-knockers of *two* doors opposite to tap...
- but usually, the cotton broke.
- love, ppint.
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ppint.
da...@usa.net "Darin Johnson" saw fit to advise the world:
>["mchl grnt"] <Michae...@dial.pipex.com> writes:
>
>>IIRC, gutta percha is not rubber but an isomer of it (the one has all
>>cis bonds and the other all trans) and is what they make chewing gum
>>out of.
- cis, trans; it's an inglorious chewsday...
>
>I've got gutta percha inside one of my teeth :-)
>
- you-a bet betta take take-a cair care-a you-a haven't-a
bud budgie-a on-a your-a per percha...
(/me checks round to see that no-one feline's a-creeping
up on me...)
- love, ppint.
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