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

Ooooh, autographs!


* Thinks... *


Can you sign this blank cheque for me?

Peet came here!!

I've invited ER too ... but he mentioned something about hell freezing over ...

Red

Yes I was wondering if er would show his face, It's amazing that an Aussie bloke should be so scared of a pommie woman. It's funny old world

Excuse an unknowing foreigner. What is a pommie and what is a limey?

Oooooh, I see things are taking off here already!

yes apparantly Lady Scott.

queen a pommie and a limey are the same thing! Hold onto that fact . An American personage calls a Brit a limey, or did. I don't know how common it is among the younger generation. An Australian personage calls a Brit, or possibly just an English person, a pommie. This applies to all generations of Aussies (an Australian)....that's what we call Australians. Just for completeness I should add that we call Americans, Yanks. Although from their point of view only the northerners or is it the southerners, I forget which, are Yankees!

Does that help?

During the US Civil War, northerners were called Yankees, southerners were Rebels.

I'm most grateful to Lady Scott for that clarification, who I belive is both a Yank and a Yankee

And she's a rebel also - don't let her convince you otherwise!

Congrats Red! Now you have a thread that you ~have~ to reply to or people will think you're stuck up!

What power! Don't be corrupted by it Red! Resist Resist!

I'll do my best Michele, although the weight of resposibility is enough to give the anybody the heebeegeebies. You're most welcome here; have another

I used to feel all freaked out about having a fan club too, Red. Mostly, these fan clubs are just a convenient conversation spot for the 'gang' to hang around in. Just relax ... you don't have to say much if you don't want to.

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........nothing to say.........

Oh yeah ... you're looking relaxed there ... for a limey.

well, as long as you don´t call me a turnip...

queen I thought you were a swede not a turnip excuse the limey hysteria!

or a rutabaga...

- at least I think turnip and rutabaga is the same kind of veggie.

Mashed turnips/carrots/potatoes with pork and mustard is a traditional dish here.

Not that bad actually, - but it´s time consuming to make the mashed veggies. They shall be peeled, cut into pieces, boiled, mashed... but the homemade stuff is eons better than then the "just-add-boiling-water" stuff.

So what do you call a swede in Sweden? A swede is a big round root vegetable that's yellowy orange inside. Much beloved by us Brits in its mashed form.

You mash the turnips and carrots up with the potatoes?

Why - that's potato perversion that is! Everyone knows that you don't put anything in the mashed potatoes except for the milk, butter and some seasonings! At least not here in America!

<Actually - I bet it tastes pretty good - I'm a vegetable lover myself, so I would like it - but most of the time the mashed 'taters are pretty straight forward over here... )

So is a "Swede" a sweet potato or a yam Red?