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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 18:39:23 EST
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- From: Tony Harminc <EL406045@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
- Subject: Re: inventing a label
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- Posted on 31 Dec 1992 at 13:25:45 by Anne Burton Harwell
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- >Sun goes down here about 4:30 pm, they oughta do something about that.
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- >Everything so far has been "same yet different." Same language, sort of,
- >but whacked expressions for everything. Where there should be "Exit," we
- >see "Way out." Obviously the Berkeleyan 60's never hit here. They have
- >public phones, but most of them don't take coins and you have to get this
- >little overpriced credit card to use them.
-
- Just goes to show you can't tell a BWP anything. I warned her about
- all this...
-
- Wait til she notices that the light switches are all upside down.
- That lightbulb jokes don't work because you can't screw in a lightbulb.
- And that they drive on the wrong side over there.
-
- >consider, just for the briefest moment, asking if he had a real stand-up
- >shower in his house...
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- Great public showers/baths in Euston station. No - not that kind.
-
- >The English do not share our fascination with multiculturalism, and I've
- >been amused to note the start I've had upon realizing that there *is no
- >Spanish version* of directions on signage.
-
- ROFL...
-
- >Too soon to have had my Perfect Moment yet. You can never tell when those
- >scamps are going to sneak up on you, but I have high hopes for when I see
- >the Turners and Constables at the British Museum.
-
- Don't spend too long looking for them there - they're at the Tate.
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- Happy new year...!
-
- Tony H.
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