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injest:
www.bigoo.ws/tag//0-4/dogs.htm
David In Indy:
Awww! Those are so cute! I love the little puppy down at the bottom!
Here's another one! :D
optom3:
--- Quote from: DavidinIndy on January 12, 2009, 11:39:20 pm ---(((FIONA)))
I know what you mean about the words. My ex was from England. He got mad at me one night when I told him to "get his fanny in bed". Gee WHIZ! I didn't know "fanny" meant something else in England. It means "butt" or "ass" here in the States. My Mother used to say that to me when I was five years old! :laugh:
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OMG!! that is how I felt when one of the staff told me about her fanny bag. My jaw was on the floor. I wondered what the heck she was about to show me. Also the 2 finger gesture in England has 2 very different meanings. Fingers facing palms forward is peace, fingers the other way round means, F-ck off. Here both ways means peace.I nearly had heart failure when my kids came back doing that.
I am surprised still at some of the langauge barriers. In many ways it is worse than learning a foreign language, you expect that to be different. I thought American would be the same. Oh boy was I ever wrong.As for frigging, I cannot even begin to tell you what that means in England !!!
David In Indy:
I wonder how it ended up becoming so different? I sometimes wonder about it. Maybe it has something to do with England and the US being separated by a huge ocean, and by the time modern transporation came around it was already too late to do anything about it.
But I know most Americans LOVE English accents. Australian accents too. And I've noticed many Americans beginning to spell things the British way... colour, neighbour, realise, etc.. Alex got me into the habit of using some of those spellings too. I still do it sometimes, until the spellchecker tries to correct me. :-\
Yeah, fanny is a totally innocent word here. Parents will say it to their five year olds. I had to laugh when you mentioned your employee's fanny pack! I can't imagine what must have been running through your mind at the time! :laugh:
CellarDweller:
OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!
The whole fanny convo here...... :laugh:
When I went to the UK to meet the Euro brokies in June last year, I was psyched. At a dinner, I ended up sitting next to one of the women who always would "ping pong" back and forth with me, little vocal jabs here and there.
We started to do it at the table, and I turned to her and said:
"If you don't behave yourself, I'm going to slap your fanny!"
She looked at me lke this............. :o The rest of the conversation was as follows:
Me: Oh, what did I say? What did I just say?
Her: Well, what did you mean to say?
Me: You know, your rear end, your "bum"....your fanny.
Her: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Oh, ok....over here, "fanny' means the other side.
Me: :o
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