While we lived in Belgium, my wife was complaining how cold it was in mid-January to a Brit ex-pat and said she was "freezing her fanny off" and the ex-pat almost fainted. She learned that their understanding of the word Fanny was backwards from our definition!
Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software www.abrohamnealsoftware.com (540) 645 5394 NEW PHONE NUMBER Amateur Radio: K3NC Blog: http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/blog/ DXBase bug reports: email to [email protected] Abroham Neal forums: http:/www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/community/ On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Lynn Fredricks < [email protected]> wrote: > > And there, surely, lies the fundamental difference between > > British rubbers and North American rubbers: > > > > the former are used to correct mistakes, > > > > the latter to prevent them. > > > > What is, arguably the funniest thing of all is that the > > literal translation of the Bulgarian word for what North > > Americans call 'rubbers' is 'preservative' > > . . . > > > > and I always thought that was something you put in jam! > > It feels good to have a good laugh in the afternoon :-) > > Best regards, > > Lynn Fredricks > President > Paradigma Software > http://www.paradigmasoft.com > > Valentina SQL Server: The Ultra-fast, Royalty Free Database Server > > _______________________________________________ > 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
