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As in, the Wisemen must be farmen since they came from afar. :)

Bill Banaszak, MFE

Interestingly there was a story in our local paper about one of our natives getting wounded and being picked up by British troops. One of their doctors asked something in German because they thought perhaps they had some of the special forces guys. Since a lot of folks around here still used German the guy answered in kind and found himself marked down as a POW. He spent some time in England as a guest of HM's Government before he could convince a guard he was American.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

Around here we use it as a way of telling the auslanders from us natives. ;)

Bill Banaszak, MFE

snipped-for-privacy@privacy.com (MGFoster) wrote in :

Interesting. I've seen other "international phonetic alphabets" before, with entirely different encodings, like this one:

But if there's one organisation that can set a standard in this matter, it's the ITU.

Zed....... mmh?

Wasn't that the Sax player from The Muppetshow band??

Dennis

No ... I think his name was Zoot ...

Zed WAS the head honcho from Men in Black ...

Dean

Today I bumped into one of those low-level irritants that one doesn't think of unless one trips over it. This was in a 20 year-old IPMS Update but I've seen it other places. 'Hobbiest' I don't know about you but I'm a 'hobbyist'. If you're a hobbiest then there's someone out there who's a hobbier. :)

Bill Banaszak, MFE

i hate your hobbier than thou attitude.

Ferrii? :-)

Hell, us Hoosiers have got you all beat! (*He said, in a thoroughly English-mangling display of Hoosier-style grammar...*)

Our State Capitol: Indianapolis

Okay, fine -- but here are a few (mis)pronunciations of city/town names according to their very own inhabitants:

Peru: PEE-ru Brazil: BRAAAH-z'l Russiaville: ROOSH-uhville

"Indiana! Where South Bend is in the North, North Vernon is in the South

-- and French Lick ain't at all what it sounds like..." - Anonymous local wag

Don't know that one, we say At-Lan-Ta around here

Hmm. Maybe it's a "Missippi thang" then.

Could be. After all anyone state that Alabama feels superior to enough to joke about... Just kidding!

Did you hear the new Alabama State Quarter just came out? It is two dimes and a nickel taped together.

Scott J

in article snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com, Scott J at farrier snipped-for-privacy@mchsi.com wrote on 12/20/03 9:44 AM:

Yeah, but it was designed by a Texas Aggie!

(Ducking and zipping Nomex)

; )

MB

Milton remarked:

Yes Milton, but the Teasippers in Austin are still trying to put them in the condom dispensers.

Oxmoron1 MFE/DOF

in article snipped-for-privacy@mb-m17.aol.com, OXMORON1 at snipped-for-privacy@aol.com wrote on 12/20/03 4:18 PM:

And they work in College Station! The duct tape jams out machines!

MB

Milton pecked at the keyboard and the best he could come up with was:

Don't need condoms at College Station, everyone knows Aggies are healthy, moral, upstanding individuals. And if per chance there was a pregnancy, the Aggie would do the right thing...make a lot of money and support his/her offspring. (About this time MB will make a crack about the vet school :-) )

But on the other hand if I were a resident of Austin, there would be worry about the increase in social ailments and HIV, that is because everyone has come to accept the "socialness" of the Teasips at the University of Tejas.

To those of you who don't know about the University of Tejas, it got so bad that they have the Med School to Dallas to protect the students from too much exposure to socail disease and give them practice on real humans.

What is the saying West of Austin? Flush twice, UT needs the water.

Sorry Milton, I couldn't help it. My daughter married a Baylor boy and every once in a while I get depressed, then I realize he could have gone to UT :-)

Oxmoron1 Injuneer MFE/DOF

in article snipped-for-privacy@mb-m21.aol.com, OXMORON1 at snipped-for-privacy@aol.com wrote on 12/20/03 5:51 PM:

What? Marry his fist?

MB

The Hoosiers have some strange geographical things happening there.... North Vernon, is not in the North, South Bend, is not in the South, and French Lick, isn't what it sounds like. Seasons Greetings to all! Bruce