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Originally Posted by gost
Oooops! Too much raspberry wine, plus I think I'm geographically dyslexic. Upper LEFT. On the upper LEFT coast of the US. Come to think of it, wouldn't it be on Michael's RIGHT, since he lives south of the equator, and therefore standing on HIS head?
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Far too much raspberry wine
My wife would
kill for Raspberry wine.
Many years ago travelling in Italy, with children aged 2 and 7, she saw raspberries everywhere. (We were staying in a little hotel near Venice)
She tried to order some. Could not find the word.
Her schoolgirl Latin
desserted her (pardon the pun)
Caesar apparently never crossed swords with a raspberry.
The closest we got was "Cassis"
She (wife) was not impressed but the kids loved it.
It was some time before we worked out why we had such silly,merry, hyperactive kids after dinner every night.
A friend, a Qantas engineer of long standing, was sent to Seattle, for a year, to watch Boeing build Qantas a plane.
His wife and he said that of all the places in the world they had visited, ( a lot working for Qantas), they would happily live in Seattle. Seattle sounds great (They were picked as Aussies immediately as they tried to put their washing out in the sun to dry.)
Now, for an Australian, that is
shockingly high praise. Contrary to the belief of US customs, not everyone is trying to sneak over to the States to live. (Which is the way they made us feel when we visited). Apart from minor aberrations like "Crocodile Dundee" we have been trying to keep Australia a secret.
Which when I travelled was easy.
Americans get very confused by concepts like Geography.( eg your last post-the prosecution rests)
"You speak lovely English for an Austrian"
"What do you do in Australia"
"O, we run a nursery"
"What made you start a nursery in Australia?
"Um . . well . . um. . we were born there!".
"O, I didn't know people were actually born there.!!??
"ummmmm . . . . . . . . .. . . ."
Give me a stack of bibles I swear both encounters were true.
The first one several times. The last is etched in memory.
I LOL at your encounter with your neighbour.
The question is how do you convince him you are not a nut case?
Pehaps you need to grow bigger raspberries or whatever.
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Michael
