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"warm beer, boiled meat and bad teeth"
BouncyBitInTheMiddle Posted May 30, 2003
And don't forget we all live in manors and have really posh accents.
"warm beer, boiled meat and bad teeth"
Stark - Off for a fortnight. See you when I sober up! Posted May 30, 2003
Absolutely old chap!
*doffs bowler hat, picks up FT and umbrella and leaves thread*
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted May 30, 2003
Somewhat more intelligent that Rumsfeld's other assertion that Saddam, despicably, may have destroyed his WMD's before the war.
Uh huh Donald, just like you *asked* him too, in order to avoid his country being being turned into rubble...
"warm beer, boiled meat and bad teeth"
There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted May 30, 2003
The whole thing with the teeth comes from the fact that Americans spend a small fortune putting metalwork into their kids mouths (and sometimes even into their own - ever seen 'Best in Show'?) to straighten their choppers. It was typified by The Osmonds 
One of the latest trends in US tv advertising is for teeth whitening products. It took off about six months ago with ads for paste. Then more ads came along for a liquid whitener. Then for strips which put on your teeth like sellotape. Now there's whitening toothpaste. Of course, they're all bashing each other as being the best way of doing it, and all make out that you're a social pariah if you can't read by the glow your smile gives off.
And Nigel Pinchley (Family Guy) had dreadful teeth 
"warm beer, boiled meat and bad teeth"
Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted May 30, 2003
My teeth glow. They glow yellow under UV lighting 
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted May 30, 2003
I'm not sure thats a good image, Kerr...
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted May 30, 2003
Gosho said the yanks like glowy teeth.... Oh, you mean ones that glow *white*, no sorry, don't do them.
"warm beer, boiled meat and bad teeth"
There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted May 30, 2003
Tea-stained brown doesn't glow either 
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted May 30, 2003
I don't know why they glow yellow. In normal light they look nicotine crosed with tea colour.
"warm beer, boiled meat and bad teeth"
Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted May 30, 2003
I do a good line in sort of off white grave stones meself.
Now, where did this thing about bad teeth come from again?
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted May 30, 2003
Oh dear, we seem to have sort of proved that one, don't we?
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Zantic - Who is this woman?? Posted May 30, 2003
And please remember we are all villains of one sort of another...wither vastly unimaginative and thick henchmen or mustachioed posh supervillains (and that's just the wimmin!)
Zantic, the Scot with the cunning plan to take over the universe, doncha know!
"warm beer, boiled meat and bad teeth"
skugga (ACE), keeper of shadows, lots of rats, no betta splendens anymore and badly drawn vampires Posted Jun 1, 2003
"warm beer, boiled meat and bad teeth"
Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jun 1, 2003
I am a villian and a scoundrel, so that part is no hardship to me.
Think yourself lucky. As a Scot, and an oppressed minority, you at least get to be treated decently (if imaginatively) in such nonsense as Braveheart. The Aussie with no sense of history seems to have a particular bone to pick with the English, right down to making Joss Ackland put on a ridiculous 'Sith Afr'k'n' accent for Lethal Weapon 2...
"warm beer, boiled meat and bad teeth"
Apparition™ (Mourning Empty the best uncle anyone could wish for) Posted Jun 2, 2003
"warm beer, boiled meat and bad teeth"
Spaceechik, Typomancer Posted Jun 2, 2003
Y'know, it's not the boiled meat, got no problem with that, it's the boiled vegetables..... 
(I drink green tea, I wonder what color my teeth would be in fluorescent light? )
Saddest of all, I don't drink beer of whatever temp! But I am an American, so bash away if you feel the need, turnabout's fair play!
SC
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jun 2, 2003
Oh, don't encourage 'em. There's enough Yank bashing threads already. Let's notturn this inro one as well...
"warm beer, boiled meat and bad teeth"
Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jun 2, 2003
Why not? It'll teach the overgrown buggers some humility
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Blatherskite the Mugwump - Bandwidth Bandit Posted Jun 2, 2003
The Patriot did a somewhat decent job of portraying the British characters. It mostly screwed up the US side of that history.
Yes, Bannistre Tarleton really was like that. The screenwriters didn't have to do much to him to turn him into a typical Hollywood arch-villain.
As for bad teeth, it's more than just whitening and straightening. Pictures of the typical Brit from back in the 70's looked like they'd seen a toothbrush and decided it wasn't for them.
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Xanatic Posted Jun 2, 2003
I'm not british, but I still have bad teeth. So anyone know any teeth whitening stuff that works?
And I'm curious, do you have a Danish stereotype or are we just too bland for that?
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- 21: BouncyBitInTheMiddle (May 30, 2003)
- 22: Stark - Off for a fortnight. See you when I sober up! (May 30, 2003)
- 23: Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like (May 30, 2003)
- 24: There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho (May 30, 2003)
- 25: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (May 30, 2003)
- 26: Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like (May 30, 2003)
- 27: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (May 30, 2003)
- 28: There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho (May 30, 2003)
- 29: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (May 30, 2003)
- 30: Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like (May 30, 2003)
- 31: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (May 30, 2003)
- 32: Zantic - Who is this woman?? (May 30, 2003)
- 33: skugga (ACE), keeper of shadows, lots of rats, no betta splendens anymore and badly drawn vampires (Jun 1, 2003)
- 34: Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like (Jun 1, 2003)
- 35: Apparition™ (Mourning Empty the best uncle anyone could wish for) (Jun 2, 2003)
- 36: Spaceechik, Typomancer (Jun 2, 2003)
- 37: Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like (Jun 2, 2003)
- 38: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (Jun 2, 2003)
- 39: Blatherskite the Mugwump - Bandwidth Bandit (Jun 2, 2003)
- 40: Xanatic (Jun 2, 2003)
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