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"CatNipped" wrote in message
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"Sherry " wrote in message
...
On 2004-10-23, Sherry wrote:

Gotta agree with you, Seanette. I posted about Jake back earlier in
the
summer.
I made several suggestions to DH as to how to "relocate" him. (her?).
The
suggestions all kinda died for lack of a second.

Jake eats mice. You might want to keep him.

Jake's eating something, for sure. If he gets much bigger he's going to
be
scary. Here's a pic I took last spring when I caught him out on the top
of
the
cellar sunning himself.
http://members.aol.com/greywolf17/snake1.jpg
http://members.aol.com/greywolf17/snake2.jpg

Sherry

Oh my, what a gorgeous creature!! Sorry, I *LOVE* snakes, they are so
silky
(they are *NOT* slimy, I love petting them) and graceful - attributes they
share with cats.

I"d agree - he is very pretty. Although I'm not sure I'd like to get too
close to him.

Being an Aussie, its pretty safe to assume that any snake you meet is quite
fatal. Yes, we do have pythons that aren't exceptionally deadly, but most of
the ones humans encounter are quite lethal (having the top 9 most venomous
snakes in the world), which is why I have a healthy 'respect' of snakes.

But I have petted a python once at a petting zoo and was very impressed with
the fact that snakes seem to be just one big long muscle. Amazing critters.

Yowie


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On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 07:30:42 -0700, Seanette Blaylock
yodeled:

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

I'm remembering when I rang a very fancy hotel in Minneapolis
to
talk to
my
friend who was away on business. I used to think I didn't have
a
particularly strong Australian accent, but the receptionist
simply
couldn't
understand me until I started speaking in my fake American
accent.
For a
hotel that would surely get guests from all over the world, I
would have
thought my accent would not present a problem, but perhaps
Australian
sounds
*particularly* strange to American ears.

Not to me, it doesn't, and I happen to like the Aussie accent.
I
like
the sound. :-)

I lived with one for quite a few years. You get used to it.
Sometimes you can even understand it. :P

But I have to say that when I was hearing news reports on NPR
about
the recent Australian election, I was almost jolted out of bed
by
the
strength of Howard's ("Haaaaaaaad") and Latham's accents.
'Strewth!

Both speak with quite an "educated" city accents (except for Mr
Howards
characteristic "aaah" and "umm"s) and would have most likely taken
eloquotion(sp?) lessons. The way the speak is similar to our news
anchor
people, which have to speak "correctly" (for an Aussie, anyway).

The further you go from the cities, the stronger the accent and
slower
the
drawl. People from Far North Queensland, Northern Territory and
the
northern
bit of Western Australia have much stronger accents than us
urbanites,
who
in comparison speak very fast and "clip" our words.

Yowie

On my first trip to Australia, I didn't notice any difference in
accents
in the various places I visited. On my second trip, I noticed some
differences, as well as different speech patterns. For instance,
most
places I went, the usual greeting was "G'day". In Darwin, it was,
"Howaya?" I noticed a few times, though, that if one Aussie greeted
another with "Howaya?", the other usually responded by saying
"G'day".

I have some Aussie CD's, and find that, although their accents
aren't
the same, both John Williamson and Lazy Harry have what I would call
an
Aussie accent. To my dismay, Slim Dusty pronounced most words the
same
way I do. In fact, one song ("We've Done us Proud") sounds as
though it
could have been written about the United States, and there is
nothing in
his pronunciation to give a clue otherwise. I say to my dismay,
because
I like the Aussie accent, and I like Aussie slang too.

They say that while people have different accents whilst speaking,
almost
every singer who sings in English *sings* with an American accent :-)

Yowie

To a certain extent, that's true. My late husband was a Barbershopper.
The year before he died, we went to England for the British Association
of Barbershop Singers convention. I was looking forward to hearing some
English singing, but all the quartets and choruses sang the same songs,
and sounded the same, as the American Barbershoppers. There was a
Swedish chorus that had slight accents on some words, but most of it
could have been sung here at home.

However, both John Williamson and Lazy Harry pronounce some words
differently from the way they are pronounced here.

Joy

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"Yowie" wrote in message
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"Kreisleriana" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 07:30:42 -0700, Seanette Blaylock
yodeled:

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

I'm remembering when I rang a very fancy hotel in Minneapolis
to
talk to
my
friend who was away on business. I used to think I didn't have
a
particularly strong Australian accent, but the receptionist
simply
couldn't
understand me until I started speaking in my fake American
accent.
For a
hotel that would surely get guests from all over the world, I
would have
thought my accent would not present a problem, but perhaps
Australian
sounds
*particularly* strange to American ears.

Not to me, it doesn't, and I happen to like the Aussie accent.
I
like
the sound. :-)

I lived with one for quite a few years. You get used to it.
Sometimes you can even understand it. :P

But I have to say that when I was hearing news reports on NPR
about
the recent Australian election, I was almost jolted out of bed
by
the
strength of Howard's ("Haaaaaaaad") and Latham's accents.
'Strewth!

Both speak with quite an "educated" city accents (except for Mr
Howards
characteristic "aaah" and "umm"s) and would have most likely taken
eloquotion(sp?) lessons. The way the speak is similar to our news
anchor
people, which have to speak "correctly" (for an Aussie, anyway).

The further you go from the cities, the stronger the accent and
slower
the
drawl. People from Far North Queensland, Northern Territory and
the
northern
bit of Western Australia have much stronger accents than us
urbanites,
who
in comparison speak very fast and "clip" our words.

Yowie

On my first trip to Australia, I didn't notice any difference in
accents
in the various places I visited. On my second trip, I noticed some
differences, as well as different speech patterns. For instance,
most
places I went, the usual greeting was "G'day". In Darwin, it was,
"Howaya?" I noticed a few times, though, that if one Aussie greeted
another with "Howaya?", the other usually responded by saying
"G'day".

I have some Aussie CD's, and find that, although their accents
aren't
the same, both John Williamson and Lazy Harry have what I would call
an
Aussie accent. To my dismay, Slim Dusty pronounced most words the
same
way I do. In fact, one song ("We've Done us Proud") sounds as
though it
could have been written about the United States, and there is
nothing in
his pronunciation to give a clue otherwise. I say to my dismay,
because
I like the Aussie accent, and I like Aussie slang too.

They say that while people have different accents whilst speaking,
almost
every singer who sings in English *sings* with an American accent :-)

Yowie

To a certain extent, that's true. My late husband was a Barbershopper.
The year before he died, we went to England for the British Association
of Barbershop Singers convention. I was looking forward to hearing some
English singing, but all the quartets and choruses sang the same songs,
and sounded the same, as the American Barbershoppers. There was a
Swedish chorus that had slight accents on some words, but most of it
could have been sung here at home.

However, both John Williamson and Lazy Harry pronounce some words
differently from the way they are pronounced here.

Joy

"Yowie" wrote in message
...
"Yoj" wrote in message
m...
"Yowie" wrote in message
...
"Kreisleriana" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 07:30:42 -0700, Seanette Blaylock
yodeled:

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

I'm remembering when I rang a very fancy hotel in Minneapolis
to
talk to
my
friend who was away on business. I used to think I didn't have
a
particularly strong Australian accent, but the receptionist
simply
couldn't
understand me until I started speaking in my fake American
accent.
For a
hotel that would surely get guests from all over the world, I
would have
thought my accent would not present a problem, but perhaps
Australian
sounds
*particularly* strange to American ears.

Not to me, it doesn't, and I happen to like the Aussie accent.
I
like
the sound. :-)

I lived with one for quite a few years. You get used to it.
Sometimes you can even understand it. :P

But I have to say that when I was hearing news reports on NPR
about
the recent Australian election, I was almost jolted out of bed
by
the
strength of Howard's ("Haaaaaaaad") and Latham's accents.
'Strewth!

Both speak with quite an "educated" city accents (except for Mr
Howards
characteristic "aaah" and "umm"s) and would have most likely taken
eloquotion(sp?) lessons. The way the speak is similar to our news
anchor
people, which have to speak "correctly" (for an Aussie, anyway).

The further you go from the cities, the stronger the accent and
slower
the
drawl. People from Far North Queensland, Northern Territory and
the
northern
bit of Western Australia have much stronger accents than us
urbanites,
who
in comparison speak very fast and "clip" our words.

Yowie

On my first trip to Australia, I didn't notice any difference in
accents
in the various places I visited. On my second trip, I noticed some
differences, as well as different speech patterns. For instance,
most
places I went, the usual greeting was "G'day". In Darwin, it was,
"Howaya?" I noticed a few times, though, that if one Aussie greeted
another with "Howaya?", the other usually responded by saying
"G'day".

I have some Aussie CD's, and find that, although their accents
aren't
the same, both John Williamson and Lazy Harry have what I would call
an
Aussie accent. To my dismay, Slim Dusty pronounced most words the
same
way I do. In fact, one song ("We've Done us Proud") sounds as
though it
could have been written about the United States, and there is
nothing in
his pronunciation to give a clue otherwise. I say to my dismay,
because
I like the Aussie accent, and I like Aussie slang too.

They say that while people have different accents whilst speaking,
almost
every singer who sings in English *sings* with an American accent :-)

Yowie

To a certain extent, that's true. My late husband was a Barbershopper.
The year before he died, we went to England for the British Association
of Barbershop Singers convention. I was looking forward to hearing some
English singing, but all the quartets and choruses sang the same songs,
and sounded the same, as the American Barbershoppers. There was a
Swedish chorus that had slight accents on some words, but most of it
could have been sung here at home.

However, both John Williamson and Lazy Harry pronounce some words
differently from the way they are pronounced here.

Joy

"Yowie" wrote in message
...
"CatNipped" wrote in message
news
"Sherry " wrote in message
...
On 2004-10-23, Sherry wrote:

Gotta agree with you, Seanette. I posted about Jake back
earlier in
the
summer.
I made several suggestions to DH as to how to "relocate" him.
(her?).
The
suggestions all kinda died for lack of a second.

Jake eats mice. You might want to keep him.

Jake's eating something, for sure. If he gets much bigger he's
going to
be
scary. Here's a pic I took last spring when I caught him out on
the top
of
the
cellar sunning himself.
http://members.aol.com/greywolf17/snake1.jpg
http://members.aol.com/greywolf17/snake2.jpg

Sherry

Oh my, what a gorgeous creature!! Sorry, I *LOVE* snakes, they are
so
silky
(they are *NOT* slimy, I love petting them) and graceful -
attributes they
share with cats.

I"d agree - he is very pretty. Although I'm not sure I'd like to get
too
close to him.

Being an Aussie, its pretty safe to assume that any snake you meet is
quite
fatal. Yes, we do have pythons that aren't exceptionally deadly, but
most of
the ones humans encounter are quite lethal (having the top 9 most
venomous
snakes in the world), which is why I have a healthy 'respect' of
snakes.

But I have petted a python once at a petting zoo and was very
impressed with
the fact that snakes seem to be just one big long muscle. Amazing
critters.

Yowie

While I love snakes, I wouldn't mess with one in the wild - especially
in Australia. I like them when they have been identified as harmless
and are used to people.

Joy

"Yowie" wrote in message
...
"CatNipped" wrote in message
news
"Sherry " wrote in message
...
On 2004-10-23, Sherry wrote:

Gotta agree with you, Seanette. I posted about Jake back
earlier in
the
summer.
I made several suggestions to DH as to how to "relocate" him.
(her?).
The
suggestions all kinda died for lack of a second.

Jake eats mice. You might want to keep him.

Jake's eating something, for sure. If he gets much bigger he's
going to
be
scary. Here's a pic I took last spring when I caught him out on
the top
of
the
cellar sunning himself.
http://members.aol.com/greywolf17/snake1.jpg
http://members.aol.com/greywolf17/snake2.jpg

Sherry

Oh my, what a gorgeous creature!! Sorry, I *LOVE* snakes, they are
so
silky
(they are *NOT* slimy, I love petting them) and graceful -
attributes they
share with cats.

I"d agree - he is very pretty. Although I'm not sure I'd like to get
too
close to him.

Being an Aussie, its pretty safe to assume that any snake you meet is
quite
fatal. Yes, we do have pythons that aren't exceptionally deadly, but
most of
the ones humans encounter are quite lethal (having the top 9 most
venomous
snakes in the world), which is why I have a healthy 'respect' of
snakes.

But I have petted a python once at a petting zoo and was very
impressed with
the fact that snakes seem to be just one big long muscle. Amazing
critters.

Yowie

While I love snakes, I wouldn't mess with one in the wild - especially
in Australia. I like them when they have been identified as harmless
and are used to people.

Joy

"Yowie" wrote in message
...
"CatNipped" wrote in message
news
"Sherry " wrote in message
...
On 2004-10-23, Sherry wrote:

Gotta agree with you, Seanette. I posted about Jake back
earlier in
the
summer.
I made several suggestions to DH as to how to "relocate" him.
(her?).
The
suggestions all kinda died for lack of a second.

Jake eats mice. You might want to keep him.

Jake's eating something, for sure. If he gets much bigger he's
going to
be
scary. Here's a pic I took last spring when I caught him out on
the top
of
the
cellar sunning himself.
http://members.aol.com/greywolf17/snake1.jpg
http://members.aol.com/greywolf17/snake2.jpg

Sherry

Oh my, what a gorgeous creature!! Sorry, I *LOVE* snakes, they are
so
silky
(they are *NOT* slimy, I love petting them) and graceful -
attributes they
share with cats.

I"d agree - he is very pretty. Although I'm not sure I'd like to get
too
close to him.

Being an Aussie, its pretty safe to assume that any snake you meet is
quite
fatal. Yes, we do have pythons that aren't exceptionally deadly, but
most of
the ones humans encounter are quite lethal (having the top 9 most
venomous
snakes in the world), which is why I have a healthy 'respect' of
snakes.

But I have petted a python once at a petting zoo and was very
impressed with
the fact that snakes seem to be just one big long muscle. Amazing
critters.

Yowie

While I love snakes, I wouldn't mess with one in the wild - especially
in Australia. I like them when they have been identified as harmless
and are used to people.

Joy

All right, it's about time someone did:

"Go down cellar,
Way down in Egypt laa-aaa-aaand!"




Theresa
Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh
My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com

All right, it's about time someone did:

"Go down cellar,
Way down in Egypt laa-aaa-aaand!"




Theresa
Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh
My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com

All right, it's about time someone did:

"Go down cellar,
Way down in Egypt laa-aaa-aaand!"




Theresa
Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh
My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com