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  #451  
Old October 25th 04, 05:16 AM
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I'm not phobic about snakes - I quite like them, and we don't have very
poisonous ones here in Finland - but I am arachnophobic. Can't even look
at a picture of a... one of those... with the eight legs. shudder I
sat with my eyes shut in the movie theatre for the last part of LOTR
(thanks again to Yowie for telling me when to shut them and when it was
safe to open them).

--
Marina, Frank and Nikki


Now that's weird. I am terrified of snakes. I have an unfounded, neurotic fear
that they are going to chase me.
But I like sp--- sorry, those eight-legged critters. I have a beautiful one on
my porch overhang. Gorgeous yellow and black color. It's an argiope, I've
watched her all summer lure flies and such in her web, then ZING! She wraps
them up in thread lightning fast. Grandaddies I don't mind either, or those
jumpy ones that are always in the flower bed. I can ID a black widow or a
fiddleback, they're the only ones I squash.

Sherry
  #452  
Old October 25th 04, 06:01 AM
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"Kreisleriana" wrote in message
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On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 01:36:07 GMT, "Yoj"
yodeled:

"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".

Anyone say Hayagoin?


Theresa


Not that I recall.

Joy


  #453  
Old October 25th 04, 06:01 AM
Yoj
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"Kreisleriana" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 01:36:07 GMT, "Yoj"
yodeled:

"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".

Anyone say Hayagoin?


Theresa


Not that I recall.

Joy


  #454  
Old October 25th 04, 06:01 AM
Yoj
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"Kreisleriana" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 01:36:07 GMT, "Yoj"
yodeled:

"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".

Anyone say Hayagoin?


Theresa


Not that I recall.

Joy


  #455  
Old October 25th 04, 08:00 AM
Yowie
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"Kreisleriana" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 01:36:07 GMT, "Yoj"
yodeled:

"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".


Anyone say Hayagoin?


Not howyagoin, but rather howzitgoin. A subtle, but important difference :-)

Yowie

  #456  
Old October 25th 04, 08:00 AM
Yowie
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"Kreisleriana" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 01:36:07 GMT, "Yoj"
yodeled:

"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".


Anyone say Hayagoin?


Not howyagoin, but rather howzitgoin. A subtle, but important difference :-)

Yowie

  #457  
Old October 25th 04, 08:00 AM
Yowie
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"Kreisleriana" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 01:36:07 GMT, "Yoj"
yodeled:

"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".


Anyone say Hayagoin?


Not howyagoin, but rather howzitgoin. A subtle, but important difference :-)

Yowie

  #458  
Old October 25th 04, 08:01 AM
Yowie
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"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

  #459  
Old October 25th 04, 08:01 AM
Yowie
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"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

  #460  
Old October 25th 04, 08:01 AM
Yowie
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"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

 




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