Mad kitty!

Kreisleriana wrote:

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 19:20:14 +0100, "Exocat"
yodeled:


The most excruciatingly bad attempt at an English accent it's ever
been my misfortune to hear. Unfortunately. Ruined a great show for me.

Purrs

Gordon & the TT


That was the consensus from the show's English fans. Made me glad
I wasn't handicapped in that way-- they deprived themselves of a
absolutely hysterical comic performance.

Apparently, Daphne is just as phony.


--
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"Stormin Mormon" wrote in message
...
In NY, it's a couch or a sofa. I've heard some variations called a divan,
or
a futon, or....

Now a futon to me is specific type of sofa-bed. A futon lounge is like a
sofa-bed but instead of it having a nifty mechanical thing that hides under
the seat part until you need to use it, a futon lounge is the bed in its
entirity, the only difference being that inthe day, one side (if you divided
the bed from the head to the foot) is almost vertical and is used as the
back rest, and at night the side that was upright goes back down to
horizontal. There mattress itseld folds when the base does, so there are no
seperate cushions or back rests.

Finally found a picture....
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI....&item=43320743
30&rd=1

Yowie

"Stormin Mormon" wrote in message
...
In NY, it's a couch or a sofa. I've heard some variations called a divan,
or
a futon, or....

Now a futon to me is specific type of sofa-bed. A futon lounge is like a
sofa-bed but instead of it having a nifty mechanical thing that hides under
the seat part until you need to use it, a futon lounge is the bed in its
entirity, the only difference being that inthe day, one side (if you divided
the bed from the head to the foot) is almost vertical and is used as the
back rest, and at night the side that was upright goes back down to
horizontal. There mattress itseld folds when the base does, so there are no
seperate cushions or back rests.

Finally found a picture....
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI....&item=43320743
30&rd=1

Yowie

"Stormin Mormon" wrote in message
...
In NY, it's a couch or a sofa. I've heard some variations called a divan,
or
a futon, or....

Now a futon to me is specific type of sofa-bed. A futon lounge is like a
sofa-bed but instead of it having a nifty mechanical thing that hides under
the seat part until you need to use it, a futon lounge is the bed in its
entirity, the only difference being that inthe day, one side (if you divided
the bed from the head to the foot) is almost vertical and is used as the
back rest, and at night the side that was upright goes back down to
horizontal. There mattress itseld folds when the base does, so there are no
seperate cushions or back rests.

Finally found a picture....
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI....&item=43320743
30&rd=1

Yowie

"Kreisleriana" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 00:38:49 GMT, "Yoj"
yodeled:
I used to live in Atlanta Georgia in the mid 1990's when tickets
when
on
sale for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games. Some people called in from
New
Mexico, and the ticket agent would not sell them the tickets,
because
they
were not from the USA. The customer asked for a supervisor. The
supervisor
agreed with the ticket agent.

--
-Kim


My mother, who lives in Alaska, runs into a similar problem
occasionally. She'll try to order something, only to be told that it
can't be shipped out of the United States.

BONK
BONK
BONK
BONK

sound of me hitting my head against the wall


Theresa

Yep. It gets better, too. The town where my mother lives is on the
Prince William Sound. A lot of cruise ships used to stop there, and
businesses would set up portable shops on the dock. My BIL operated one
of those portable shops for a while, and my mother would often go with
him when a ship was coming in. People would come ask, "Do you take
American money?" Another favorite question was, "What is the altitude
here?" (while standing on the dock)

Joy

"Kreisleriana" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 00:38:49 GMT, "Yoj"
yodeled:
I used to live in Atlanta Georgia in the mid 1990's when tickets
when
on
sale for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games. Some people called in from
New
Mexico, and the ticket agent would not sell them the tickets,
because
they
were not from the USA. The customer asked for a supervisor. The
supervisor
agreed with the ticket agent.

--
-Kim


My mother, who lives in Alaska, runs into a similar problem
occasionally. She'll try to order something, only to be told that it
can't be shipped out of the United States.

BONK
BONK
BONK
BONK

sound of me hitting my head against the wall


Theresa

Yep. It gets better, too. The town where my mother lives is on the
Prince William Sound. A lot of cruise ships used to stop there, and
businesses would set up portable shops on the dock. My BIL operated one
of those portable shops for a while, and my mother would often go with
him when a ship was coming in. People would come ask, "Do you take
American money?" Another favorite question was, "What is the altitude
here?" (while standing on the dock)

Joy

"Kreisleriana" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 00:38:49 GMT, "Yoj"
yodeled:
I used to live in Atlanta Georgia in the mid 1990's when tickets
when
on
sale for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games. Some people called in from
New
Mexico, and the ticket agent would not sell them the tickets,
because
they
were not from the USA. The customer asked for a supervisor. The
supervisor
agreed with the ticket agent.

--
-Kim


My mother, who lives in Alaska, runs into a similar problem
occasionally. She'll try to order something, only to be told that it
can't be shipped out of the United States.

BONK
BONK
BONK
BONK

sound of me hitting my head against the wall


Theresa

Yep. It gets better, too. The town where my mother lives is on the
Prince William Sound. A lot of cruise ships used to stop there, and
businesses would set up portable shops on the dock. My BIL operated one
of those portable shops for a while, and my mother would often go with
him when a ship was coming in. People would come ask, "Do you take
American money?" Another favorite question was, "What is the altitude
here?" (while standing on the dock)

Joy

"Yowie" had some very interesting
things to say about "go down cellar":

Listening to my friend Alfred, an Australian born to Chinese parents, I am
always amazed how he can talk with his brothers in both Chinese and English
and neither he nor his brothers even notice when they've changed from one to
the other. To *my* ears it sounds like "blah blah blah blah, down to
Wollongong, turn right, blah blah blah blah, no worries, blah blah, Seeya".
I crack up each time, and htey have *no idea* that they've had half the
conversation in Cantonese and half the conversation in English, and are
often surprised that I didn't understand it all (since I don't speak
Cantonese at all). Alfred speaks in perfectly flawless Australian English
with no trace of accent, and perfectly flawless without a trace of accent
Cantonese. His parents, although speaking perfectly good and understandable
English, have a pronounced accent and have a noticably different speach
pattern than their sons. And they either speak entirely English or Entirely
Cantonese, they don't switch half way through a conversation without
noticing.

Reminds me of the discussion he

http://www.kottke.org/03/09/bilingual-conversations

--
"The universe is quite robust in design and appears to be
doing just fine on its own, incompetent support staff notwithstanding.
:-)" - the Dennis formerly known as (evil), MCFL

"Yowie" had some very interesting
things to say about "go down cellar":

Listening to my friend Alfred, an Australian born to Chinese parents, I am
always amazed how he can talk with his brothers in both Chinese and English
and neither he nor his brothers even notice when they've changed from one to
the other. To *my* ears it sounds like "blah blah blah blah, down to
Wollongong, turn right, blah blah blah blah, no worries, blah blah, Seeya".
I crack up each time, and htey have *no idea* that they've had half the
conversation in Cantonese and half the conversation in English, and are
often surprised that I didn't understand it all (since I don't speak
Cantonese at all). Alfred speaks in perfectly flawless Australian English
with no trace of accent, and perfectly flawless without a trace of accent
Cantonese. His parents, although speaking perfectly good and understandable
English, have a pronounced accent and have a noticably different speach
pattern than their sons. And they either speak entirely English or Entirely
Cantonese, they don't switch half way through a conversation without
noticing.

Reminds me of the discussion he

http://www.kottke.org/03/09/bilingual-conversations

--
"The universe is quite robust in design and appears to be
doing just fine on its own, incompetent support staff notwithstanding.
:-)" - the Dennis formerly known as (evil), MCFL

"Yowie" had some very interesting
things to say about "go down cellar":

Listening to my friend Alfred, an Australian born to Chinese parents, I am
always amazed how he can talk with his brothers in both Chinese and English
and neither he nor his brothers even notice when they've changed from one to
the other. To *my* ears it sounds like "blah blah blah blah, down to
Wollongong, turn right, blah blah blah blah, no worries, blah blah, Seeya".
I crack up each time, and htey have *no idea* that they've had half the
conversation in Cantonese and half the conversation in English, and are
often surprised that I didn't understand it all (since I don't speak
Cantonese at all). Alfred speaks in perfectly flawless Australian English
with no trace of accent, and perfectly flawless without a trace of accent
Cantonese. His parents, although speaking perfectly good and understandable
English, have a pronounced accent and have a noticably different speach
pattern than their sons. And they either speak entirely English or Entirely
Cantonese, they don't switch half way through a conversation without
noticing.

Reminds me of the discussion he

http://www.kottke.org/03/09/bilingual-conversations

--
"The universe is quite robust in design and appears to be
doing just fine on its own, incompetent support staff notwithstanding.
:-)" - the Dennis formerly known as (evil), MCFL