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Sorry to disappoint you so bitterly, oh great one ... 
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Thanks, Mav', for Worchestershire. I was correct in my thinking! Amazing.
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>How do you tell where you're from?
I generally look at my birth certificate.
[ducking and running for cover-e]
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Yeahbut(c)[sic]
Ceaster, et al. are from the Latin castrum, fort. I had always thought that caer was Gaelic. I guess I could see it coming from the Latin, too.
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Does castrum have anything to do with cutting?
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anything to do with cutting?
Nor with beavers, neither.
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In reply to:
"can I have a bed for the night I fly in dude?"
Hey! I resemble that remark! I already know which bar, tho'.
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Back to the original question:
How do I tell where I'm from?
Just check my birth certificate.
TEd
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I say "I'm from Kentucky," unless I'm talking to Jackie in which case I just say that I'm from Georgetown.
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Just check my birth certificate.OK... Ok, we believe you... but just in case, I'll take a look at that...yep it does *say "Earth".
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I generally look at my birth certificate.I believed you the first time!
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Well, you obviously don't know what it's like when you get older! Soon I will be in my sixtieth year, which I had hoped would make me a sexygenerian, but so far it's not looking too good.
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xin my sixtieth year, which I had hoped would make me a sexygenerian
Young punk kids these days …
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I have always loved younger men... and I think you look just fine and dandy. So there!
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Currently, I amnow younger than *them...
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If I'm in Algoma (this region of Ontario) I say "I'm fifteen minutes up the Chapleau Highway, a little place called Wharncliffe." If I'm in Southern Ontario, I say "I'm an hour east of Sault Ste Marie". That one usually works in the States, too, as Sault, Michigan and Sault, Ontario are side-by-side, but I'll add "Sault, Canada" in case my Canadian accent isn't showing that day.
If I'm feeling bloody-minded, I'll say: "You got a map of Ontario? Okay, look at the top of it. Okay, now turn it over; I'm on the other side."
I always say "Northern Ontario". I believe we should separate from the Greater Toronto Area.
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Most Canadians think they should be separated from the Greater Toronto Area EC
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