deb, in regards to the Ma'am question - you weren't wearing black leather at the time, by any chance?
macsm11, that would require the "D" to be pronounced.
Ma'am - it depends on how it's said - MAM is very southern US (to my ears) and MARM is very regal (it's what the Queen is called, when not "Your Majesty").
Debs - are you really a Queen?
bookmark for the Queen response.
hee hee
Ma'am is used in all parts of the US, but more in the south because of a tradition of good manners. Yes'm, is typical.
Deb is, of course, the queenly type; at least, when she chooses to be queenly, which isn't very often because she just loves being baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad!
No, I amn't a smegging queen.
It was marm.
Like I said above, we do not use ma'am and sir and such at all, except occasionally in shops and such.
Bernie, my dear................you are a sponge........in the very best sense of the word.
Bernie's comment about Woody Allen reminds me of one of my favorite Allen quotes which would indicate that maybe he came back as a sponge already !
" I am two with nature "
I love that one!
Bit like Sartre, who said something like "I have never been especially fond of chlorophyll."
colgate is better than chlorophyll. mind you I just bought some rolling tobacco and it's got hydrogen cyanide in it and I know I asked for the plain old regular grass version
Hmmmmmm - that can't be good!
on the digression into grass etc....
Following upon (1) our Prime Minister's announcement that the government plans to decriminalize possession of marijuana for personal use, and (2) the local Vancouver initiative to offer facilities for heroin users to shoot up under medical supervision... the US government has thought it ought to send a parade of officials up here to let us know it isn't happy with Canada. The latest visit, from David Murray, special assistant in the Office of National Drug Policy carried the typical threats, "I think the loss of the mutual cooperative partnership we've had with Canadians regarding our borders, regarding the integrity of the hemisphere, regarding our commerce, regarding the implications of trade and value to ourselves, the loss of that would be something truly to be regretted". Murray repeated, rather a few times, the phrase "unintended consequences" which might ensue, "We would have no choice but to respond."
More and more, we love America's humility, love of diversity, and respect for automony of other nations and cultures.
LOL!!!!
Thank heavens South Australia is so remote from their consciousnesses that they did not notice when we effectively decriminalized it fifteen years or more ago!
"More and more, we love America's humility, love of diversity, and respect for automony of other nations and cultures."
roflmao
Maybe 'tis time for Canada to cut along that dotted line and sail south - I guess it would smeg up the great lakes, though?
Wouldn't Alaska look funny - or would you kidnap it?
Canada and Oz would make a decent country if they combined!
You guys are gentler and more restrained, though.
Hmmmm - would we let New Zealandd sleep between us?
Sailing south...it's a lovely idea. We are, as you suggest, a gentle and refined people and as such, would surely add value to the Ozzie communal psyche. You'd get high quality maple syrup and French-speaking trappers to mate with up against billibong trees, and we'd get ocean waters more appealing in color and temperature - watching a Canadian on the beach pondering entry immediately brings to mind Mark Thatcher's dilemma.
Dear goddess!!!!!!!!
Thud...
I presume from your post that Trappers and Trappists have little in common?
