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Jayne ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American
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evil jimi - Feb 04, 2003 7:57:06 am PST #1721 of 9843
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
evil jimi - Feb 04, 2003 7:57:49 am PST #1722 of 9843
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
It's that kinda woolly headed thinking that leads to being eaten.
billytea - Feb 04, 2003 8:01:46 am PST #1723 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
It's that kinda woolly headed thinking that leads to being eaten.
Ok, really: Ewwwwww.
Oops. Sorry: Ewwwwwwwe.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Feb 04, 2003 8:05:33 am PST #1724 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
I'm now earwormed with "Don't fence me in."
Don't ask why.
Also, billytea: please, never tell me that there really is a kind of worm that lives in your ear.
jimi: tup, tup.
Zoe Finch - Feb 04, 2003 8:24:36 am PST #1725 of 9843
Gradh tu fhein
Many of them were political prisoners too, sent from Ireland for various seditious activities, freedom fighters really.
Also the Jacobites -fighters for Bonny Prince Charlie. The ones who weren't slaughtered were put on boats and shipped away.
Zoe Finch - Feb 04, 2003 8:26:47 am PST #1726 of 9843
Gradh tu fhein
I know what you're thinking: well then, why didn't they send him to New Zealand? Alas, the ways of British justice are at times unfathomable.
Gah-wuff!
Betsy HP - Feb 04, 2003 8:37:25 am PST #1727 of 9843
If I only had a brain...
picturing ships full of Diana Riggs and Alex Kingstons being sent off with David Attenborough narrating.
No wonder Australians are so astonishingly good-looking.
Nutty - Feb 04, 2003 8:39:17 am PST #1728 of 9843
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Ancestors are an exciting bunch, even when you don't have self-aggrandizing elderly relatives. None of mine, alas, have gone antipodean, except the branch of the family that spent time in Brazil as "missionaries" (read: Maryland slaveowners who wrenched a few more years out of their status quo before Brazil outlawed slavery) in the 1870s. They came home, chagrined and, I presume, fluent in Portuguese, some time around 1890.
bloody Poms
Pomeranians? Pom-tiddly-poms? Do tell how this word is cheerily derogatory towards Britain. Or towards stupid people? Aspiring slangists want to know.
evil jimi - Feb 04, 2003 8:39:25 am PST #1729 of 9843
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Also the Jacobites -fighters for Bonny Prince Charlie. The ones who weren't slaughtered were put on boats and shipped away.
I thought the Battle of Culloden predated the "discovery" of Australia by 40 years?
Wasn't Culloden fought in 1742?
Off by 4 years. 1746.
England didn't invade Australia until 1788, by which time most of the Jacobites and Wankie Ponce Chuckie, were totally dead.
Zoe Finch - Feb 04, 2003 8:47:04 am PST #1730 of 9843
Gradh tu fhein
Wasn't Culloden fought in 1742?
1746 {sniffle}. Most were slaughtered, the lucky ones were taken as prisoners and transported, perhaps it was west they were sent but I always thought it was to Australia. The folks who were forced from their lands (the few remainders of the pre-Culloden population) in the Clearances, later scattered throughout Canada, the US and Australia - those that survived the trip.
My family are part of what remains of the few that survived the famine in Ireland and the clearances here, survived the industrial revolution in Glasgow and somehow managed to keep going.