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Amira - the stinking overachiever - can't take enough time out of her "busy Oxford schedule" (slacker) to be around as often as I'd like her to be, and Jebus is totally MIA.
We need more British people around here! I need to be reading posts with a foreign accent going through my head. I mean the Polish thing is nice with K.A.M.A., but does a program really have an accent? Bokonon has that Boston thing (I'm pretty sure), and we've got some Aussies running around here, which is bonus. But it's not nearly enough to satisfy my insatiable accent appetites.
What, can we offer them tea and strumpets? Free passes on the rail? A pint of Guinness? Blood pudding?
What does it take?
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Ooh... I agree with Ralphie. We really need to do some Brit recruiting. All my favorite 80's bands come from the isles, and the nation that gave rise to Teletubbies is automatically three rungs ahead of everyone else on the class ladder.
Maybe we should start up a bizarre reality TV series to lure them in....
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I have this eerie feeling that Kiwis (not to be confused with kiwi fruit or, for that matter, the bird) are going to take over the world. I worked with three this summer and they had this... look ... in their eyes.
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As soon as I saw this thread I was going to post that, Flying Cow. So frustrating. We do need more Brits though. Such a colourful way of spelling things they have.
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I wrote an art history paper once in which I spelled everything the British way - even connexion. My stinky prof marked every single one wrong! You'd think after seeing colour used 45 times, you'd figure it was intentional. I think he just wanted an excuse to use his red pen on my otherwise spotless paper. Posts: 8504 | Registered: Aug 1999
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My Ralphie, what a randy girl you are. I've a mind to invite you up to my flat if you're ever here on holiday, but I know you just want to get in me trousers.
Now I've got to go. I've left my ale out on the pavement by the motorway all afternoon and it should be warm enough to drink now.
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quote: Um... Ralphie? I'd imagine they're in Britain
Not me! And I'm 100% British Citizen... and a British Citizen ONLY.
(Did you know it takes more than a year for the citizenship people to process a citizenship request. It took them two months to even say that they'd recieved the papers... sssssooooo ssssllllooooowwwww.)
No, I'm living in Canada, and are pretty much Canadian really, since I've been here for seven and a half years now. *shrug* Still a British Citizen though... Posts: 8473 | Registered: Apr 2003
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Agh, why would you want British people around anyway? *shudders*
The only good things to come out of that country were Monty Python and Cadbury eggs.
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**to anyone who didn't pick up on it, this was made in jest...well half in jest...well 3/4 in jest...so don't get too worked up**
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I was about to complain you left out Anna, as if we needed more French Bashing debates.
Between everyone you mentioned and those far distant Canadians, not to mention the FLorida people who truly are from another world, I am feeling quite the American minority.
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Terminology is very different up here, Dragon. Not as much as it used to be though (tonic, anyone?). Rotaries, the more than semantic difference between milkshake and frappe, jimmies, aunt vs. ant, bubbler, and a few more.
Jimmies was interesting also my first year at college. Apparently, along most of the rest of the Atlantic seaboard, it is a nickname for a prophylactic (short for "jimmy hat", I believe).
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Juliette was on the Claremont Colleges Women's Rugby team for a while, and she also lived in London for a semester. She's also of English descent on her mother's side. Actually, so am I, for that matter.
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This is a bit random, but what in blazin' hades does Wotcher mean? It's in Harry Potter #5 a few times, and it's driving me nutty! Posts: 84 | Registered: Feb 2003
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I had a buddy in college whose full nickname was "Herr Baron Professor Doctor Thrilliam J. von Brown, III, Esq., Defender of the Realm of Huge and Scourge of Its Seven Seas."
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While visiting Germany, my dad was referred to as Herr Doktor Professor. He has this whole routine about the Herr Doktor Professor of the Herr Doktor Professor . . . Posts: 32919 | Registered: Mar 2003
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We have another Brit! Yay! Hello Stig, good to meet you. Where in the UK are you from? Maybe one of these days we'll actually manage a UK Hatrack picnic, you never know....
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