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Shea the Sarcastic Posted Mar 15, 2003
Ephrata! See, I can say it! I'm quite good with accents! 
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Lady Scott Posted Mar 15, 2003
Close, close...
Listen carefully, though: Ephrata.
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Shea the Sarcastic Posted Mar 15, 2003
I said it correctly.
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Lady Scott Posted Mar 15, 2003
No... it *was* very close though!
Ephrata.
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Jon Quixote: steaming little purple buns for tea. Posted Mar 15, 2003
Ephrata?
I must have it by now.
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Lady Scott Posted Mar 15, 2003
That was *soooooo* close!
Just a tiny bit of difference in the one syllable: Ephrata
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Jon Quixote: steaming little purple buns for tea. Posted Mar 15, 2003
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Lady Scott Posted Mar 15, 2003
Seriously, try it again. I'm sure you'll do much better this time - look at how much you've improved in your pronunciation of it already!
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Jon Quixote: steaming little purple buns for tea. Posted Mar 15, 2003
Ephrata. That's the last time I'm saying it!
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Lady Scott Posted Mar 16, 2003
But if you don't get it right, you know the locals will laugh at you....
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Jon Quixote: steaming little purple buns for tea. Posted Mar 16, 2003
The locals at MY local laugh at me. You say Goodworth Clatford!
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Lady Scott Posted Mar 16, 2003
Goodworth Clatford.
See? Easy one.
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Jon Quixote: steaming little purple buns for tea. Posted Mar 16, 2003
Not if you have to put an 'amp Sh ire accent awn.
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Jon Quixote: steaming little purple buns for tea. Posted Mar 16, 2003
I mean, it's not my fault if I don't LOOK like a farmer.
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Lady Scott Posted Mar 16, 2003
I grew up on farms and *I* don't look like a farmer, either.
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Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs Posted Mar 17, 2003
What does a farmer look like in the first place.
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Lady Scott Posted Mar 17, 2003
In my experience, a farmer looks like my Dad always looked.
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Mr Inertia - Now new, improved and mostly human! Posted Mar 17, 2003
Is there anything specific I should be looking for on farmers, to prove they're farmers?
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Lady Scott Posted Mar 17, 2003
Well, it's not a hard and fast rule, but he had a farmer tan - the lower half of his face and the opening of his collar were very ruddy. The upper half of his face was very pale, since it was always shaded by his hat. When I was young he wore straw hats, but as I got older he switched to baseball type caps.
Other than that, the only other thing I can think of is that he was happiest out in the field on the tractor. In bad weather he was like a caged animal in the house.
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Mr Inertia - Now new, improved and mostly human! Posted Mar 17, 2003
That last bit sounds liek a lot of people I know.....and they aren't farmers!
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