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I'd just like to express my appreciation to all the UK members for providing the tops in entertainment value for the RRF. Not to slight anyone else (especially our Aussie and Canuck cousins), but this place would be a lot less warm and funny without your inspired collective wit and enthusiasm. Well, done, chaps and ladies! Keep the good times rolling along!

Yeah, us Yanks are a boring lot!

jps wrote:Yeah, us Yanks are a boring lot!

(yawns) I'm sorry, Jeff, would you repeat that?

Now, you know that wasn't what I was trying to say. We're generous, diverse, funny too, and Infuriating sometimes. but not boring! This is just my week for Anglophilia. You're in next week's salute.

Uh, oh!

That's odd because us Brits feel that we are normal and that it is the US members who say/do bizarre things which we find funny.

Yeah, you guys would!

leftyguitars wrote:That's odd because us Brits feel that we are normal and that it is the US members who say/do bizarre things which we find funny.

Except Scotty....

Those guys are as weird as a three dollar bill!!

Except Sarah, of course.....

ozover50 wrote:B*ll*cks!! Those guys are as weird as a three dollar bill!! ...

I'll go with that, we used to have a thruppence you know.

I have one of those in a small collection of international coins. Always wondered what it was. An uncle of mine who was a visiting scholar overseas brought it back with him and gave it to me.
JimK

jimk wrote:An uncle of mine who was a visiting scholar overseas brought it back with him and gave it to me.
JimK

Is that him in your avatar?

They were known as thrupenny bits, (the name is now Cockney rhyming slang for, err, well, you know!).

leftyguitars wrote:They were known as thrupenny bits, (the name is now Cockney rhyming slang for, err, well, you know!).

...Bristol City's?

godber wrote:

leftyguitars wrote:They were known as thrupenny bits, (the name is now Cockney rhyming slang for, err, well, you know!).

...Bristol City's?

Exactly.

jps wrote:

jimk wrote:An uncle of mine who was a visiting scholar overseas brought it back with him and gave it to me.
JimK

Is that him in your avatar?

Nope. Happens to be a Dutch dude name of Menno Simons, a subject of professional, and intellectual interest to my uncle.
JimK