h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

>I guess I'll unsubscribe from this conversation too ...

yes, it is really sad when the citizens of the western powers start bickering about the wars, its Anzac Day on the 25th (July)(gallipoli landing)... they deserve a lot more than the "you would all be speaking Japanese..." etc

When I started this post it wasn't to cause any bickering...but it seems to have taken a turn for the worse.

Now, let's have everyone here get along!

RE: Molson commericial - I think it's pretty cool, having all the nationalities involved in it.

Molson commercial - what one is that? (can you write some of what is said in it?)
Any aussies out there know if that commercial is the one Stuart Littlemore (on ABC's Littlemore) pointed out that aust copied?

Sorry, I don't get that comment about feynmann and the gay about the egyptians. I quoted feynmann due to the fact that he was intimately involved in the design and construction of the bomb, and with the testing as well, so he had a good idea of what was going on in the minds of the people who designed and built it. As to the testing at the bakini attol, I don't dispute that it happened, only when.
As I remembered it, it was after the war, not before hiroshima and nagasaki, and considering that feynmann mentioned that the entire manhaten project development team were present for the test prior to the two main bombs, I think it highly unlikely that it did not occur at los alamos testing grounds.

oops, that should be feynmann and the GUY,

I'm not speaking for all Canadians, or indeed for anyone outside of my group of friends, but we're pretty big fans of Croc Hunter (oi! He's a mean one! I'm gonna jam my thumb in 'is bumhole now! Aw yeah, that p****d 'im off!). There's a rumour that you Australians don't really like him, but some of us up here sure do (eh!). We just like seeing him get bit by another snake (crikey! The b*****d bit me in the arse! Oi, honey, y'gonna have ta suck the venom out!). Hehe, I like saying oi.

Is it true that you non-Canadians out there think we say aboot instead of about? It's only that guy on 22 minutes that says aboot! I must also point out to you that we think Americans from the southern states say abaout, so I guess we have prejudices aboot accents too, eh? (sorry, it slipped... toss me a beer, eh? Hoosier.)

Jimmy.

P.S. we don't say hoosiers, either, unless we're poking fun at ourselves. Go watch Bob and Doug MacKenzie.

Well not speaking for all australians but I'd say the majority of us don't like him. He presents something thats just not true, not funny and embarassing. The first croc dundee was a laugh but since then its very cringe-worthy. Also that plastic-surgery? Nah, australians do not do plastic-surgery. Hollywood does plastic surgery. God how embarassing! He just looks weird.

I'd never thought of Canadians saying "aboot" until South Park really... even after that I don't think it but you've gotta wonder where it came from, and who hears it like that.

we like saying oi too.

Aussie aussie aussie oi oi oi!

umm... hoosier? what on earth's that?

I don't know. It's just something that showed up on SCTV back in the late '70s and early '80s. These guys (Bob and Doug Mackenzie, played by Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas) would call each other hoosiers (pronounced hoser). No idea what it means. I guess it's supposed be a Canadian version of "man" or "buddy", but it's not. None of us say it.

Jimmy.

A 'hoser', (hoe-zur) as per Bob and Doug, is a Canadian beer drinker who needs to pee a lot. Beer consumption reduces the Canadian penis to the status of a hose.

A 'Hoosier' (who-zee-yer) is an American of German immigrant descent, especially from the state of Indiana.

An 'idiot' is someone like me, who actually believes a posting to this long dormant and painfully nationalistic conversation will serve anyone any good.

peace
~jwf!

*unsubscribe*

That's a pretty incredibly good definition. Well done!

Jimmy.