Interesting Group

It's not a site, it's a bunch of lunatics ranting on Usenet.

Do you design electronics? Please tell us a little about technology in Colombia. This group is majority USians, but we tolerate the occasional Brit, Aussie, and even Canadian.

John

Dont get the yanks mad at us.They may invade.

Then we would have to kick their asses again :)

We just bought twenty new tanks eh! This brings are arsenal to 21 total. A force to be reckoned with.

I got the most interesting 'Error 403' page I've ever seen from that.

-- Paul Hovnanian mailto: snipped-for-privacy@Hovnanian.com

------------------------------------------------------------------ Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes. -- Dave Barry

It's not my place to criticize anyone's erotic fantasies. But I admit that the prison thing isn't on my list.

John

Eh?

D from BC myrealaddress(at)comic(dot)com British Columbia Canada

| >wrote: | >

| >>Am in Colombia South America and came across your Group. Interesting | >>set of topics I would not havfe guessed would exist. Great site! | >

| >It's not a site, it's a bunch of lunatics ranting on Usenet. | >

| >Do you design electronics? Please tell us a little about technology in | >Colombia. This group is majority USians, but we tolerate the | >occasional Brit, Aussie, and even Canadian. | >

| >John | >

| | Eh? | |

I thought it was "How's it going... Eh?"

Cheers

'ow you doing, ah? Zeze Yankis are amusing, ah?

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs

Not you. He meant the OTHER Canadian! ;-)

Rusty old Ford Pintos with 'TANK" painted on the hoods are not real weapons. That is, unless the gas tanks are full, and you back them into battle. ;-)

That's aboot what I thought you'd say.

John

Which reminds of: South Park

When I first saw this, I didn't get it. It's more of an American joke. I don't know anybody around here that says 'aboot'.

D from BC myrealaddress(at)comic(dot)com British Columbia Canada

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Wow those beer bottles are ancient..

D from BC myrealaddress(at)comic(dot)com British Columbia Canada

_Eastern_ Canada, Maine and Virginia. I've always suspected from French, but maybe someone lurking here knows the exact etymology?

...Jim Thompson

I once (while in the USAF) had a roommate who said 'aboot'. I don't know if he was Canadian (the US services let furriners join!) or just weird. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

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It's a phenomenon covered in every *Canadian* first-year linguistics course:

-- Joe

Thanks, Joe, for the link! That explains why I've heard it from my Scot ancestors in southern Virginia, eastern West Virginia.

...Jim Thompson

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=A0 =A0 =A0 ...Jim Thompson

=A0 =A0 ...Jim Thompson

You're welcome.

Americans hear us Canadians saying "oot and aboot", but what do you we hear? As the wiki article suggests, we just hear "out and about" even though your pronunciation is actually different. I think it may be because we hear Americans speaking all the time on TV, whereas you only here us when we do notable things such as cancel parliament to avoid unpleasant outcomes ;)

But if we listen carefully, the differences are clear: you guys actually say "aout and abaout".

-- Joe

My accent is pretty much neutral... take Scot ancestry, raised in West Virginia, four years in Massachusetts, then 46 years in Arizona... smoothes it all out ;-)

...Jim Thompson