On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 19:24:26 GMT, "Madra Dubh"
<ccaine@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

>>>>>> I may have to drop "Git" into me dust bin.
>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> That would be a shame. Your use of this estimable word
>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> was apropos and demonstrates that you could become
>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> highly adept at our English "patois" should you put in
>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> the effort required.
>> >>>>>>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>>>>> Understand, I went on for quite a while until someone
>> >>>>>>>>>>>> finally explained exactly what "Wanker" meant.
>> >>>>>>>>>>>> And I prefer not to even think about :the times I used
>> >>>>>>>>>>>> Tosser". One must be very careful when one uses foreign
>> >>>>>>>>>>>> slang.
>> >>>>>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>>>> So we have git, tosser, scouse, wanker...
>> >>>>>>>>>>> What's next?
>> >>>>>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>>> I'm not going to tell you, you gert lummock!
>> >>>>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>> This shower is complete trousers, Mr Crun.
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> I remember something like that from me SCI days,
>> >>>>>>>> "A shower of *****", I believe it was.
>> >>>>>>>> Of course one can substitute a variety of words for *****
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> Well, they're *nglish, so we can trust it wouldn't be
>> >>>>>>> "bathwater"...
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Who is English?
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Out of idle curiosity, Jay, where be ye from?
>> >>>>>
>> >>>> As you ask, I'm a cattle farmer from New Zealand, but that takes
>> >>>> all the fun out of it.  I rather like the theatre of virtual
>> >>>> characters.
>> >>>
>> >>> Oh My Gawd!
>> >>> You don't live near Adam Whyte-Settler, do you?
>> >>> (You may see a boom in exports if Canada keeps sending us
>> >>> infected cattle) (Americans are starting to get a bit antsy about
>> >>> buying and eating American beef these days.)
>> >>> (Bad joss for the chickens, good joss for the cows)
>> >>>
>> >> Not if your chickens from Thailand, like a *lot* of our do, or
>> >> rather did.
>> >>
>> > Great.
>> > So you avoid Mad Cow Disease by importing SARs infected fowl.
>>
>> Ahem. Madra, on behalf of the Nebraska Beef Industry Council, I must
>> correct you. That's Mad Canadian Disease. You're welcome. BEEF - It's
>> What's For Dinner!
>
>Now I have noticed the beginnings of a drop in the price of beef over the
>last several weeks.
>It started about the time the Canadian Cows were discovered.
>You may recall beef prices were skyrocketing before the MCD episode.
>Free enterprise, ain't it wonderful?
>
It would be, if the US had any.  It's one of the most heavily
controlled markets around, all propped by subsidies because the
operators are not efficient enough.

JJD