A request to the Mods.....

mirandashell

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If there's any French or French Canadians on the board......


you're welcome to have a go back at the rosbifs.
 

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Sorry if I upset you. I didn't mean to.

This is exactly the reason that I (and many others) wanted the smiley. Cos a lot of people just get upset and don't tell me. So there's nothing I can do about it.

If I step over your line again, just PM me and we can talk about it.

Cool?
 

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Now, now! The smiley is not an excuse for bad taste or dodgy jokes! Let's show some British restraint here, chaps.
 

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Now, now! The smiley is not an excuse for bad taste or dodgy jokes! Let's show some British restraint here, chaps.

Isn't that the thing where I crush all my emotions other than mild surprise and let them simmer away inside me until they become a terribly damaging personality disorder?

Or is it the one where the strongest expression of distaste I must ever utter in public is 'tchh'?

Or is it just where I don't brush my teeth? It's unnatural, you see. The pleasure of clean teeth. It's too great.

Cause I'm way ahead of you on those. ;)
 

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And here I thought "British humour' was an oxymoron—who knew?


(Yes, that's New England humor.)
 

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Of course, now all we need is a good, long round of the Four Yorkshiremen game to really get some practice at using that smiley.
 

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Here you go, Kevin. All you gotta do is make it smaller.

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can you make it Canadian Census Humour?

OMG. OMG, that was funny, eh.
 

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Humour, yes; humor—not so much;

There's supposedly traditional cuisine in the form of the New England Boiled Dinner, too.

(I don't recommend it, unless made with Really Good corned beef brisket.)

Yeah went over there on my Honeymoon ... Bunratty castle and all . plus the stuff on the bigger island (maybe that's where the marriege started to go awry). As far as dining goes I noticed two predominate items.
1. They lost the recipe for ice
2. They generally had to send out if you asked for salt

I took a peek in the recipe book at one of the bed and breakfast places We stayed in. 225 pages that just said "Boil it", just in case they forgot. New Englanders must have stolen a copy, to chagrin of lobsters.
 

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Frenchies in Canada, eh? Hmmm... suspicious to my mind. There are, of course, no Frenchies in England at all. Absolutely not one.

What do you mean, look at my surname? Oh, no, Lascelles is not in any way a French name. No, it's, er, Medieval Norman. Yeah, that's it. Medieval Norman so absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with France.

I mean, its not as if an RAF pilot in the second world war landed behind enemy lines in France and managed to hide out in a village because he had the same surname as everyone else. That would be a ludicrous story and would never happen*

And as for Germans. Nope, no Germans in England either. Not even the Royal family cos they're about as British as you can get (i.e. immigrants who decided to never leave, which about describes the population of the whole Island... :) )

*Actually, it did. An airman with the surname Lascelles landed in a small French village. When he told them his name, they welcomed him as a long lost brother. This story came from the curator of the Battle museum near Hastings, he told us this story after he learned my surname...
 

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As an Australian, I'm shocked and chagrined.

I mean, everybody knows criminals are the lifeblood of the working class sense of humour, and we all know Australia was settled by British convicts. Therefore, it should read, "Aussie". You don't even need to add the words "Sense of Humour" - Australians are famous for their sense of humour.

At least, out of the grand total of 2 things the average person outside Australia knows about us is our sense of humour, and that the capital is Sydney.

Nevermind the fact the capital is actually Canberra. That has no bearing on my sense of humour.

(I could really use that Aussie emoticon right now. ;))