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Bic Wood 20 January 2002 17:29 RE: Parlez-Vous Anglais? and Translations Paul and Trevor;
Thanks for both of your
replies to my e-mail with its urgent questions. I feel significantly more educated now that I have your definitions for sprogs,
effing and blinding...
Given that it was bitterly
cold here last evening - high 50s during the day and low 40s at night (F not
C) - I used the weather as an excuse to stay in with a bottle of Scotch
and the Spooky St. Ives web site.
The first pleasant
surprise was the depth of the site. Every time I thought I was about to
reach the end of my enjoyment a new branch appeared. I started with a
bottle of the Macallan at my side. (I thought Scotch was appropriate
based on the J. Leach plan to always drink the "drink of the
country" and I was hoping to be transported, so to speak, to St. Ives.
Of course, pub brew would have been an obvious choice, but was not available.
I guess Gin could have also been in the running, but why? Don't
know anything about Pimm's [No, Pimm's is a complete
mystery to us as well. We're not sure what's in it so we use it to clean the
ceramic hob!] ... Anyway, Scotch seemed to qualify (and would have
been what I was drinking anyway even without all of this cold weather and
country justification [waste product from a male
cow's rear]). The decision of which Scotch was
settled by starting with The Macallan - 18 year old - to show proper respect.
As the evening went on and the depth of the site became obvious I
switched to Laphroaig simply due to the call of the bottle. Paul's
advice to use the menus to go through the site in some sort of order and then
dip back in through the Appendicitis page proved to be the perfect
plan, provided for an excellent evening, and seriously dented both the
Macallan and Laphroaig.)
I must admit that I
entered the site with some skepticism. While my initial glance at the
site (as previously reported) was very positive, I was not convinced that
anyone could continue to combine that much humor, appropriate sarcasm and
crankiness, and good localized information across an entire site of any
significant size. I was biased by the junk that is generally
available on the Internet. (Summarized by a quote I had recently
seen - "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could
produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we
know this is not true." (This was from a Robert Wilensky from the University
of
Well, gosh, folks, I guess it's true what they say about Southern hospitality. That's two great bits of e-mail correspondence we've had with Americans; one lot in New Mexico and now Bic in Texas. What's the matter with the rest of the States, don't you have electricity? ..... Well, OK, we've seen on the news that they don't in California these days but what about the rest of you? Why don't you tell us what's what in Wyoming? What's news in New Hampshire? What's cooking in Colorado? What's doing in the Dakotas? What's massive in Missouri? What's airing in Arizona? In short, what's the status in the states? (People in Alaska are excused from replying immediately. We're happy to wait until later in the year when you defrost!). Send us an e-mail from each state and whoever sends the best one will win the right not to be visited by Tony Blair!
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