Ummmm.... I'm feeling more stupid than usual. What exactly does "hoovering" mean in the US? And how long ago was this heaux conversation? (yes, I've seen it spelt that way).
Judy http://revined.blogspot.com On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 12:26 AM, Richmond Mathewson <[email protected]>wrote: > [TT] - Totally Tangential. > > Ha, Ha, Ha . . . > > When I was studying at SIU Carbondale I rushed into a teaching assistants' > meeting fresh from vacuuming the carpet at home and said: > > "Sorry I'm late, I have just been hoovering . . ." > > There was a deathly silence in the room! > > My understanding supervisor (A Canadian) took me outside and told me > that 'hoovering' did not mean vacuum-cleaning in America. > > Late, I was working in the married students' garden plots when a pleasant > woman from Wyoming asked me how I managed to break up the clods of earth > so effectively. My reply; "I always use a hoe." was received in silence, > and then she walked off, never to speak to me again. > > In Britain, 'beavering away' means (or, maybe, meant, when I was at school) > "working away extremely eagerly"; no doubt connected with "eager beaver" - > which, no doubt, you North Americans will resemanticise as a > synonym for "loose woman". > > Divided by a common language we may be; united by a love of programming in > Runtime Revolution I hope we all are. > > Welcome to the silly season !!! > > Love, Richmond. > ____________________________________________________________ > > A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life > Cycle. > ____________________________________________________________ > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
