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#100011 04/29/03 09:01 AM
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I like mustard on my french fried potatoes. Mmmmhmmmmm.

Sounds like a waste of good mustard. Oh, no. You prob'ly use that funny mild stuff that y'all squirt along yer hot dawgs, so it's not such a waste after all.



#100012 04/29/03 10:20 AM
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the German word bike translated into English not the other way around

We really need wsieber or by here, but:

Couldn't find anything for Bike but going with pronunciation I come up with Beichte, confession. Best I could do.


#100013 04/29/03 11:51 AM
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Sounds like a waste of good mustard. Oh, no. You prob'ly use that funny mild stuff that y'all squirt along yer hot dawgs, so it's not such a waste after all.

Not to mention the pissy beer we USns drink along with them thangs, stale urine or not.


#100014 04/29/03 12:53 PM
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Not to mention the pissy beer we USns drink along with them thangs, stale urine or not.

Well, I thought it best to stay out of *that discussion. Discretion being the better part an' all that...



#100015 04/29/03 06:04 PM
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I do dare say that this is one point that everyone here has agreed upon at one time or another...

http://home.att.net/~bluesbrothers/chezpaul.htm


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Yeah, served with Blues Brothers mayonnaise. Something to throw up on. Properly lanted, too.


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Something’s been at the back of my mind about this thread and I just realized that it was the use of the words ‘dish soap’ in Zed’s initial post. My mind had skipped over it as something I didn’t quite understand but wasn’t essential that I should. Is the term ‘dish soap’ commonly used by Yousns? Over here we use ‘washing-up liquid’ for hand-washing dishes. In fact, after a meal we ‘do the washing-up’. (Or load the dish-washer.)


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Dish soap is the word we US'ns use for the liquid soap used to wash the dishes and dishwasher detergent is used in dishwashers.
http://homesolutionsnews.com/rbdocs/us/electrasol/
http://www.east.asu.edu/sta/u-life/housing/maint.htm

Is it just me, or does it seem that the 2nd link's writer is terribly anal about cleanliness?


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Is the term ‘dish soap’ commonly used by Yousns?

Yup, USns gnereally calls it that or either dish detergent, one.


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Over here we use ‘washing-up liquid’ for hand-washing dishes. In fact, after a meal we ‘do the washing-up’. (Or load the dish-washer.)

In my household, (childhood one and current) we did "the dishes" (or loaded the dishwasher)
as children, we set the table, before dinner, (starting with a cloth for the table) after dinner, we cleared the table and did the dishes. Part of clearing the table included careful removal of the table cloth, which was furled out a window to remove the crumbs, before being folded for reuse, or tossed in the hamper for later washing.

thankfull, my mother read a pamplet from NYC board of health, that said it more sanitary to let dishes air dry, than to wipe them, (dry them with a cloth), so the sat in the drain board, and latter, my mother would empty it. (the cloth in question-- in our kitchen was always a tea towel- but nowdays, i am as likely to say kitchen towel.
paper towel were a luxury, and used scantily, nowdays, for ecological reasons, i too, use very few.. a roll of paper towels last me about 3 months!

to pick up hot pots, we used a potholder..(i know there are other term... lets hear 'em!)



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