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Where you from?

England
39 (11.2%)
Australia
11 (3.2%)
Europe
23 (6.6%)
America
241 (69.1%)
Other
35 (10%)

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Offline Terry in Australia

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Re: Where are you from?
« Reply #100 on: August 31, 2005, 09:52:56 PM »
Ah Bowie, life's eternal balance. Just as you're planning to mothball your scoot for another winter, I'm breathing life back into my collection of old bangers, as the sun comes back out after a short absence here in the cooler parts of Oz.

I just paid the annual registration fee for my Suzuki GS1000S (my "daily rider" in the warmer months) so I can "share" the one license plate among the other 4 bikes, ha ha! Not strictly legal, but I can only ride one bike at once, so the RTA (DMV) can eat my shorts! (now that'd be a mouthfull!) Cheers, Terry. ;D
I was feeling sorry for myself because I couldn't afford new bike boots, until I met a man with no legs.

So I said, "Hey mate, you haven't got any bike boots you don't need, do you?"

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« Reply #101 on: August 31, 2005, 10:06:43 PM »
Do you know how Canada got its name?

When it was time to name the country they put all the letters of the alpabet in a hat. Then they started drawing...........

I've got a "C" eh I've got an N eh D eh.



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Re: Where are you from?
« Reply #102 on: August 31, 2005, 10:18:39 PM »
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I tell you what, we'll give you back your queen and her whole disfunctional family, if you promise not to send any more of that warm piss that you call beer out here, all our drains are clear again now, and even the Kiwi's won't drink it, ha ha! Cheers, Terry. ;D

what is a Kiwi, Terry?  I've appropriately named my zx7r "Kiwi" due to her kiwi/ (Kawasaki) green (green- meaning: new/novice)  nature... but, now, i'd like to know an australian translation...
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« Reply #103 on: August 31, 2005, 10:46:43 PM »
G'Day Heff, (I love your avatar by the way!) a Kiwi is a New Zealander, named after one of their native birds, an ugly little flightless thing, with a very long beak. Now don't get me wrong mate, we've got ugly flightless birds here called "Emu's", but they're big bastards, about the size of an African Ostrich, but not as attractive.

Luckily for Aussies the Kiwi's (apart from being communists who's Prime Minister, Helen Clarke, was born a man) are fairly slow witted, or else they'd probably call us "Emu's" in retaliation. Then again, they might just prefer it to their other nickname, "Sheep F*cker", ha ha!

In New Zealand there are the caucasians of course, but also the Maori's. They are mostly huge fearsome warriors and quite beautiful women. The men are either Rugby players or bouncers (crowd controllers) who, embarrassed by the caucasians' perverted attraction to livestock, have mostly moved to Australia to live. Here's a classic tale about a "Kiwi":

"A  New Zealander was washed up on a beach after a terrible  shipwreck. Only a sheep and a sheepdog were washed up with him. After looking around, he realised that they were stranded on a deserted island. After being there a while, he got into the habit of taking his two animal companions to the beach every evening to watch the sunset.
      
One particular evening, the sky was a fiery red with beautiful cirrus clouds the breeze was warm and gentle - a perfect night for romance. As they sat there, the sheep started looking better and better to the lonely Kiwi. Soon, he leaned over to the sheep and put his arm around it.
      
 But the sheepdog, ever protective of the sheep, growled fiercely until the man took his arm from around the sheep. After that, the three of them continued to  enjoy the sunsets together, but there was no more cuddling.
      
A few weeks passed by and, lo and behold, there was another shipwreck.  The only survivor was a beautiful young  Australian woman, the most beautiful woman the man had ever seen. She was in a pretty bad way when he rescued her and he slowly nursed her back  to health.
      
When the young maiden was well enough, he introduced her to their evening beach ritual. It was another  beautiful evening red sky, cirrus clouds, a warm and gentle breeze - perfect for a night of romance. Pretty soon, the Kiwi started to get "those feelings" again.
      
He fought the urges as long as he could, but  he finally gave in and  leaned over to the young woman, cautiously, and whispered in her ear, "Would you mind taking the dog for a walk, love?" Cheers Terry. ;D

« Last Edit: August 31, 2005, 10:48:22 PM by Terry in Australia »
I was feeling sorry for myself because I couldn't afford new bike boots, until I met a man with no legs.

So I said, "Hey mate, you haven't got any bike boots you don't need, do you?"

"Crazy is a very misunderstood term, it's a fine line that some of us can lean over and still keep our balance" (thanks RB550Four)

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Re: Where are you from?
« Reply #104 on: August 31, 2005, 11:33:03 PM »
Geez, Terry, you made that one up!  ;)

Hey, you ever seen the size of an African Ostrich? They are pretty damn big, your average Oz emu would be able to walk right under one without ducking its head! Of course, Australians always have had a problem with sizes...."uhm, yes, dear, it IS 9 inches!" ;D
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Re: Where are you from?
« Reply #105 on: September 01, 2005, 06:18:52 PM »
9 hell mines 11.5  :o I know because I had the ruler tattoed on the side,  (the numbers are kinda bunched up but I can see the 11.5 mark quite well!)  I'm glad it's not 12 because i would hate to buy another shoe. :D

harry's right an emu is small. 

Compared to a Pennsylvania Wild Turkey ... Well.. let's not go there. 

Oz does have some big rodent, it's the size of a small Pennsylvania wild BOAR.

Now Oz does have us beat on sheep, the Pennsylvania sheep died off some years ago in the rural areas, now all we have are town sheep brought in by pimps from New Jersey.
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« Reply #106 on: September 01, 2005, 06:55:54 PM »
Well,ya know...I got a small one(But I got a tatoo of a real big one on the side of it!!)
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Re: Where are you from?
« Reply #107 on: September 03, 2005, 01:42:02 PM »
Good ole US of A here. But don't call me a Yank. I'm from Texas, and if you live here you would know that the Yanks are the ones that live in New York or other places up North. :P
Call me a yank all you want, I'm from the North and love it.

Yank and Yankee are interesting terms.  I always thought Yank is what Brits, Kiwis and Aussies called all Americans, and Yankee is what some Americans call some others.

I spent the first 20 years of my life in northwest Ohio and never thought of people there as Yankees.  Yankees were the ones who lived in New England and talked funny, when they talked at all.

I've lived on the high side of the Mississippi for 30 years and now consider myself a Westerner.  Now I find the people in Ohio talk funny.  "Go warsh up in the crick behind those booshes." for example.

Not that there's anything wrong with talking funny, of course.  ;-)

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Re: Where are you from?
« Reply #108 on: September 03, 2005, 03:41:17 PM »
terry, thanks for the define.  i think harry's right... probably an autobiography would be my guess   :P ;D

by the way, you think my avatar is kewl... check out jotor's... where'd you find that?
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« Reply #109 on: September 03, 2005, 03:44:38 PM »
check out jotor's... where'd you find that?

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Re: Where are you from?
« Reply #110 on: September 03, 2005, 04:02:17 PM »
Good ole US of A here. But don't call me a Yank. I'm from Texas, and if you live here you would know that the Yanks are the ones that live in New York or other places up North. :P
Call me a yank all you want, I'm from the North and love it.
Yank and Yankee are interesting terms.  I always thought Yank is what Brits, Kiwis and Aussies called all Americans, and Yankee is what some Americans call some others.
I spent the first 20 years of my life in northwest Ohio and never thought of people there as Yankees.  Yankees were the ones who lived in New England and talked funny, when they talked at all.
I've lived on the high side of the Mississippi for 30 years and now consider myself a Westerner.  Now I find the people in Ohio talk funny.  "Go warsh up in the crick behind those booshes." for example.
Not that there's anything wrong with talking funny, of course.  ;-)

That's it Joty, Aussies, Poms, (English) Kanuks, (Canadians) and Sheep Shaggers (Kiwi's, er, Communists, er, Cross Dressers, er New Zealanders) have always referred to Americans as "Yanks", which of course is technically incorrect, and I'm sure an insult to the Southerners and Texans. (American Aussies, I'm told) As an old Aussie soldier, I've been taught over the years to try to insult everyone equally, so I'll tell you what Americans are referred to in the circles in which I travel. (now don't shoot me, I'm only the messenger)

"Seppo". That's right, you see, one of the things that we've not quite shaken from our British forbears, is our use of rhyming slang. For instance, my father, an old WW2 vet, still refers to Jew's as "Four by Two's". (a standard timber size here) A suit is a "Bag of Fruit", and so on and so forth. So "Seppo" is the shortened, modernized version of "Septic Tank", which of course rhymes with "Yank".

I discovered in 1989 that some Americans don't share our sense of humour, when on exercise in Katherine, in the Northern territory, one of my brash young soldiers addressed some dark skinned American Marine behemoths with the opening enquiry "Hey, you Seppo Wankers, what are youse dickheads doing here in the Donga?" which to another Aussie soldier translates as "Good morning to my esteemed American brothers-in-arms, how are you today, and how are you enjoying your stay here in the Aussie bush?"

Sadly the Marines took this enquiry as an insult, and fell upon him, proceeding to beat him unconcious! It was only for my fast thinking that he was again able to see the light of day, when I ran in and ordered them to "Stand down", in my best parade-ground voice, reserved just for these occasions. (and the odd parade) I explained to them that although they'd done a wonderful job reshaping the contours of his face, it wasn't really that necessary, as his intent was only to engage in some witty banter with chaps from a foreign service. They looked at each other rather sheepishly, and tittered, then their great big faces broke into the friendliest of smiles, and I knew the balance had been restored!

When my young soldier fully recovered from that terrible fall down, remarkably, the only fight of stairs in the Aussie bush (as I was required to explain to my Commanding Officer when he enquired as to why one of his soldiers looked like he'd been run over by an Abrams tank) I suggested to him that he wander over to the Marine's camp to show them that there were no hard feelings and to do a bit of military "Networking". (Talking trash and getting wasted) Not surprisingly, he respectfully declined. It seems he was concerned that he'd once again open his mouth at the wrong moment and be set upon by another group of well meaning, but otherwise extremely violent fellows who might well misinterpret his innocent greetings? Ha ha, Cheers, Terry. ;D  
I was feeling sorry for myself because I couldn't afford new bike boots, until I met a man with no legs.

So I said, "Hey mate, you haven't got any bike boots you don't need, do you?"

"Crazy is a very misunderstood term, it's a fine line that some of us can lean over and still keep our balance" (thanks RB550Four)

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Re: Where are you from?
« Reply #111 on: September 04, 2005, 04:21:52 AM »
Good story Terry about the 'Apples and Pairs' in the aussie bush.  ;)

Watched a film last week about a true story of Scottish soldiers in a Japanese POW camp in WWII. The camp consisted mainly of Brits and one American who the Brits affectionatley called 'Yanker' cos he was American and a bit of 'wanker'.  ;D

Us Scots get a whole load of names Jock, Scotch (which is infact a drink rather than a nationality), Haggis munchers to name but a few. Don't mind any of them. Just don't call us English!  >:(

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« Reply #112 on: September 04, 2005, 05:20:05 AM »

Us Scots get a whole load of names Jock, Scotch (which is in fact a drink rather than a nationality), Haggis munchers to name but a few. Don't mind any of them. Just don't call us English!  >:(

No worries Geoff, I'm hip to that cultural thing, my Grandfather was Welsh, and my Grandmother was Scottish, and not surprisingly, neither were too keen on being referred to as English! Cheers, Terry. ;D
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So I said, "Hey mate, you haven't got any bike boots you don't need, do you?"

"Crazy is a very misunderstood term, it's a fine line that some of us can lean over and still keep our balance" (thanks RB550Four)

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« Reply #113 on: September 05, 2005, 10:24:24 AM »
My contry is  a part Scandinavia in the north  Europe

 I live near Kristiansand in the South part of  Norway.
 In a conty name Songdalen on a place  whit the name FINSLAND

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« Reply #114 on: September 19, 2005, 12:17:42 AM »
I'm from California, which is another planet altogether.

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« Reply #115 on: November 08, 2005, 07:18:48 AM »
Buffalo, NY.  Nov. 8th and still riding...
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« Reply #116 on: November 08, 2005, 07:42:50 AM »
Surrey, England( near London  ;) ), went for a ride today, weather was crisp and dry, it was wonderful..

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« Reply #117 on: December 25, 2005, 08:17:26 PM »
quail,originally from hopewell now petersburg

Ah a real Virginian.  Glad to meet you!  I have spent a good deal on time in your battlefields, if you have never gone it is a great day, (even if you don't like civil war stuff)  I spent a summer in Colonial Heights.

I was "killed" at Gettysberg this year. Born in Virginia and dragged up in Massachusetts. I am becoming so fed up with the restrictions on my life and my property that I may be looking to move South again. Massachusetts was one of 3 states to lose population this year, I wonder why. Maybe it was the "leash law" that did it. I want to live where I can "let out the dog".

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« Reply #118 on: December 26, 2005, 03:54:32 PM »
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Maybe it was the "leash law" that did it. I want to live where I can "let out the dog".

If this is true, dont move here in SC.  the law here is "leash yer critter"
it actually pisses me off when i want to play in my own yard with my children, and i step in dog mess.

I actually wonder if they make a compound that i could spray on the property line and keep em off.

my neghbors love me :)

 
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« Reply #119 on: December 26, 2005, 04:39:58 PM »
Hey Jim, when I was a kid at school, we all had lockers, so were required to carry locker keys on chains, on a litlle leather button fob thingy. Anyway, I was walking home from school swinging my key chain, when it got tangled in my neiighbours electric fence!

Yep, the old bastard was that incensed with having dogs piss or crap on his garden, that he'd strung a low wire (about 6-8 inches off the ground) and hooked it up to a transformer, and it booted the #$%* out of me!

I couldn't get the bloody chain off me without touching it and getting zapped again, luckily his wife came out and switched the power off, apologising profusely. After that I just carried my locker key in my wallet, ha ha! Cheers, Terry. ;D
I was feeling sorry for myself because I couldn't afford new bike boots, until I met a man with no legs.

So I said, "Hey mate, you haven't got any bike boots you don't need, do you?"

"Crazy is a very misunderstood term, it's a fine line that some of us can lean over and still keep our balance" (thanks RB550Four)

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« Reply #120 on: December 27, 2005, 06:03:45 AM »
hummmm.....

that gives me an idea.....
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« Reply #121 on: December 27, 2005, 02:58:56 PM »
You forgot the evil laugh mate? ;D
I was feeling sorry for myself because I couldn't afford new bike boots, until I met a man with no legs.

So I said, "Hey mate, you haven't got any bike boots you don't need, do you?"

"Crazy is a very misunderstood term, it's a fine line that some of us can lean over and still keep our balance" (thanks RB550Four)

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« Reply #122 on: December 27, 2005, 03:03:04 PM »
You forgot the evil laugh mate? ;D

I think he was humming instead :)

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« Reply #123 on: December 27, 2005, 04:15:32 PM »
 ;D
I was feeling sorry for myself because I couldn't afford new bike boots, until I met a man with no legs.

So I said, "Hey mate, you haven't got any bike boots you don't need, do you?"

"Crazy is a very misunderstood term, it's a fine line that some of us can lean over and still keep our balance" (thanks RB550Four)

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« Reply #124 on: December 28, 2005, 01:42:35 PM »
quail,originally from hopewell now petersburg

Ah a real Virginian.  Glad to meet you!  I have spent a good deal on time in your battlefields, if you have never gone it is a great day, (even if you don't like civil war stuff)  I spent a summer in Colonial Heights.

I was "killed" at Gettysberg this year. Born in Virginia and dragged up in Massachusetts. I am becoming so fed up with the restrictions on my life and my property that I may be looking to move South again. Massachusetts was one of 3 states to lose population this year, I wonder why. Maybe it was the "leash law" that did it. I want to live where I can "let out the dog".
faust,if thats the case,dont move back to virginia
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