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| Thread ID: 116005 | 2011-02-13 07:33:00 | Send Roses --- | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 1177738 | 2011-02-13 07:33:00 | While attending a Marriage Seminar dealing with communication, Tom and his wife Grace listened to the instructor: 'It is essential that husbands and wives know each other's likes and dislikes..' He addressed the man: 'Can you name your wife's favorite flower?' Tom leaned over, touched his wife's arm gently and whispered: 'It's Pillsbury, isn't it?" |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1177739 | 2011-02-13 07:47:00 | Gotta tell ya Joe, that line ain't gonna work in NZ. I had to google Pillsbury to get it. :illogical Substitute Edmonds for Pillsbury for us Kiwi's. :nerd: |
Jen (38) | ||
| 1177740 | 2011-02-13 07:53:00 | Had to google it also :ban |
--Wolf-- (128) | ||
| 1177741 | 2011-02-13 07:55:00 | We got the same trouble with mayonnaise here in US. When I ask for 'Hellman's Mayonnaise' I get blank stares. On the East Coast and prolly crossing the Mississippi River somewhat, it's all over the place - but here in the Left Coast, it's 'Real Mayonnaise'. Go figger! But I WOULD substitute it - if the EDIT time limit hadn't been crossed yet. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1177742 | 2011-02-13 10:31:00 | So the United States are not in fact United are they? If they were then they would all understand each other regardless. When you lot pitched the English out you could have invented your own language but you didn't. All you did was change the spelling. :) On the other hand. In Kiwiland we get a mixture of English and Maori. Could one of your statesmen/women give a speech as a senator in any North American dialect and address the whole assembly? In NZ Maori is an official language and is used in Parliament and Courts of Law on a semi regular basis. |
Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1177743 | 2011-02-13 17:05:00 | We don't really have much trouble understanding each other unless there's a foreign dialect tossed in, and then by the second generation, there's enough US0ism to make them understandable. We have Southern, Texan, Boston, Wyoming, California dialects, but they are all just rather ways to hold your tongue or not move your lips when speaking. The country is so wide and diverse that many times an East Coast product won't make it to the Left Coast, and one of the oddest things I learned when we first came to California was that there was an ice cream flavor called: 'Rocky Road' that is a huge success here and yet cannot be sold 'back East' at all. It isn't accepted as a good flavor for whatever reason. I think that's kinda gone under the bridge now as the areas are more 'melded' and coalesced with infusions of New Yorkers into SoCal and vice versa. Some of the products I miss are: Moxie, Yoo-Hoo (although I DO see it sometimes in specialty stores here) and real pizza and bagels. But here in SoCal we have King's Hawaiian Bread which will never get past the Continental Divide unless someone takes it in their flight bag. Kinda like Cockney and Welsh tongues - and did you ever notice that English/Australian singers have a US accent? |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1177744 | 2011-02-13 21:41:00 | I think that's pretty good. Most men wouldn't know there are different brands of flour, never mind what his wife prefers. Good on the guy, even it is a joke. | pctek (84) | ||
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