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redpeckhamthegreatpompomwithnobson Posted Dec 9, 2004
Yes I too thought it twere Spain
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clzoomer- a bit woobly Posted Dec 9, 2004
According to the Beeb and Cranfield university, it's Vieux Boulogne:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/beds/bucks/herts/4044703.stm
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Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Dec 9, 2004
Very possibly. But a friend's dad used to get it from the family village, near Naples. I shudder tom think what his hand luggage must have smelled like.
(Conversation allegedly overheard on a Dublin bus by another friend who used to live there:
'Where are yis going for your holidays'
'Italy'
'Italy? Where's that?'
'I think it's in Spain.')
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clzoomer- a bit woobly Posted Dec 9, 2004
(The smelliest I mean, not the most maggoty!) 
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Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Dec 9, 2004
What? Elvis Costello is the world's smelliest chese?
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redpeckhamthegreatpompomwithnobson Posted Dec 9, 2004
how can you measure the smell of something?
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Dec 9, 2004
Actual conversation in Southern States of America:
Where're y'all from?
- I'm from Ireland.
Is that out of state?
- Yes, it's in Europe.
Did you drive all the way from there to here?
- No, there's an ocean in the way.
Oh.
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BigAl Patron Saint of Left Handers Keeper of the Glowing Pickle and Monobrows Posted Dec 9, 2004
One way is to collect the smell, put it into a gas chromatograph and measure the area of the peak on the chart trace.
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BigAl Patron Saint of Left Handers Keeper of the Glowing Pickle and Monobrows Posted Dec 9, 2004
Over hear in the works canteen once (Conversation between an English chap and a Canadian)
English man: "That's absolute rubbish; the trouble with you Americans is that....."
Canadian: "Don't talk such absolute *&£$. The troublwee with you b
Europeans is....."
English man" "I'm bot b European, I'm b English".
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BigAl Patron Saint of Left Handers Keeper of the Glowing Pickle and Monobrows Posted Dec 10, 2004
Also, I had a colleague once who reported that his grandmother had a friend whose daughter had been to London! (He was commenting on how parochial many of the people are who live in our area.
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Dec 10, 2004
Where's "our area"? Is is somewhere in England?
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BigAl Patron Saint of Left Handers Keeper of the Glowing Pickle and Monobrows Posted Dec 10, 2004
Yes. The West Country.
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Zubeneschamali Posted Dec 10, 2004
'Where are yis going for your holidays'
Someone in Dublin who uses 'yiz' as a second person plural pronoun is quite likely to use 'yizzer' as the possessive form. It's not universal, but it's fairly common.
Actual sample:
'Would yiz like any black pepper or parmesan cheese on yizzer pizza?'
Zube
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Dec 10, 2004
Morphic resonance! I pointed out "yizzer" and "yizzerselves" on the Language and Linguistics thread 19 hours ago:
F19585?thread=508032?thread=&skip=375
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Zubeneschamali Posted Dec 10, 2004
'yizzerselves' is a new one on me, but a logical construction.
Since I'm not in Dublin, the second person plurals I hear are "ye" and "ye'r" (which rhymes with year). Now that I think about it, "ye'rselves" is also common, an analogue of "yizzerselves".
Zube
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HonestIago Posted Dec 10, 2004
In Scouse (the Liverpudlian accent) the equivalent is yous and yus eg. 'Would yous like any parmesan on yus pizza'
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A Super Furry Animal Posted Dec 10, 2004
How "real" is "real"? I would venture to suggest that Declan Patrick McManus's *real* name is Elvis Costello.
RF
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