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#139704 02/23/2005 5:37 PM
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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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#139707 02/25/2005 12:14 AM
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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.


#139708 02/25/2005 12:22 AM
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Does castrum have anything to do with cutting?


#139709 02/25/2005 2:03 AM
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anything to do with cutting?

Nor with beavers, neither.


#139710 02/25/2005 2:35 AM
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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.




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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.


#139714 03/07/2005 5:03 PM
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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!


#139719 03/10/2005 10:36 AM
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Currently, I amnow younger than *them...


#139720 03/11/2005 2:24 AM
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An on line proposition?


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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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