The power of words

EM:-

You're getting warm.What's the bloody point of them reading when we can do that and tell them what it means.

I know, sorry just joking. No way a Brit could know that much about US history.

Spendius,

I know. I can't see any point to it. It just leads to trouble.

I mean, how many times have you heard a sentence that started: "Honey, I was just reading this, and I think you should......"

Did that phrase EVER end up with anything good at the end?

you know that when you hear that phrase, nothing good is coming...

Doggy Setanta mi britches backside:-

Resent away.We don't mind.We are well used to football managers resenting referee's decisions.Sometimes it is the highlight of the match.

EM:-

Not always but I will admit that trouble is the normal outcome.

Somebody once said,an Englishman,that if there's trouble there's a woman behind it somewhere.

Ahem.

Sir, to this point in time we have enjoyed a cordial relationship. Respectfully, your statement has jeopardized all that--

Sir, you folks do not have football. I do not know what that sport is where all your men hold on to one another and run together in a field. It is not football, I can assure you. Why all the touching?

Don't get me started. That is a new thread.

The sentiments of the Sassenach on the subject are meaningless to me, i just don't intend that decent folk, like Americans, would so mistake me . . .

I know. It took all the courage I could muster to risk such an insult as to joke with you that you are English.

I was hoping that you would know it was just a playful joke.

Actually, one should not even jest with such a serious insult.

Almost like joking one has a flaw in their genetics or breeding or something. Kind of off limits. Please accept my humble apology. I will never even toy with such a serious insult in the future.

No problem, Boss . . . you could not really have known how offensive such a suggestion would be to me . . .

Set,

Actually the main reason someone might mistake you for a Brit is your command of the English language.

You really might consider using more short sentences and keep it to one or two syllable words, as well as do throw in many grammatical, tense, and general punctuation errors. Also, your considerable knowledge of world events seems...almost unAmerican or something.

EM:-

No.Never.What they read which caused them to say you should do something was written by a rhetorical specialist with the intention of picking your pocket by taking advantage of the fact that they have been persuaded to think of themselves as intelligent by other rhetorical specialists who play golf with the rhetorical specialist of the first part.That's the simplest way of putting it.In fact it is a trifle more complex.

The bimbo might be the answer.

Definitions of less than 20 words please.

I know we are pretty awful but we are not as bad as you are making out.Take Afghans as a yardstick.
Or a Trobriand Islander.And that lot in Tierra del Fuego that Darwin came across.

I must bed myself.

Only kidding Setanta.You ain't so bad.

Goodnight.

Ok, I'll grant you that. I'd rather go for a ride in the English countryside than in the Afghan outback at the moment.

But in either case, I'd hope to meet zero natives.

You're all like Simon Cowell, are you not?

G'nite :wink:

Surely, EM, you would not have me hide my light under a bushel?

I guess not.

Maybe you could put an American flag behind the dog in the avatar or something, just so there would be no doubt.

Actually the bottle of Coke and the blue jeans in the background is pretty good I guess. Better than a flag. Nothing says America like that!

I can't believe they let them sell those all-American products in Britain.

SETANTA!!! Who YOU calling a plank!!!!

extra medium, don't get your knickers in a twist! I meant nowt by it! It's not as if I said you posted like an old slapper now is it.

I explained why I thought you were female...and they were nice reasons.

I can talk proper when I want to...I just chose to use the Northern vanacular...innit!

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The same doubt from the same people. These are some of the ones who always try to disprove something which they do not understand and in doing such they loose every chance of SEEING truth.

The spoken word is the most powerful influence in the universe affecting others around you.

It created everything that is, was and ever shall be.

'Ere . . . and what's this thing called . . . Luv?

smorgs:-

"Plank" might be a compliment.

A plank has a foundation/support meaning as in "scaffolding plank".Something that saves one from falling;something to lean on.Solid,dependable,that sort of thing.

Of course,also,planks are thick,often short and made of wood.But I wouldn't think Setanta had that meaning in mind.I don't think they use the expression "as thick as two short planks" in the USA.

There are no nice reasons for thinking a bloke like EM is female.You ought to be able to detect testosterone in prose as a seasoned member and especially when it is in the sort of concentrations EM exhibits.With a bit of practice EM would have scored at least one of those chances Van Nistelroy faffed.In my prime I might have scored two of them.Sadly those days are over.

Did you intend mis-spelling vernacular?

Alright you snooty bugger - Mr S shouted how to spell it...and he's got an English degree!

setanta, I'll let you off then...for now!

don't go dissin the smorgs no more...got it?

sorted?