On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 19:30:01 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.

JJD