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nonsuch
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Babbler # 1402
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posted 28 February 2003 05:55 PM
Sammies.On second thought, that's no good, is it? Sam is their uncle's name. Nieces and Nephews might work, if sexual characteristics in evidence, but this might not always be the case. According to LeCarre novels, the British secret service used to call its American counterpart 'the cousins'... Cousins it is. (In various parts of the world, people would probably want to qualify this as 'second', 'third' or 'distant') [ 28 February 2003: Message edited by: nonesuch ]
From: coming and going | Registered: Sep 2001
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Michelle
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Babbler # 560
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posted 28 February 2003 06:25 PM
So what do you call mature Americans then?A lot of people I know call them "Yankees" or "Yanks". I guess that's not really appropriate since all Americans aren't Yankees, but that's what the vernacular now seems to mean to some of the people I know. I remember working with this one woman who collected "Yankee coin" (we were cashiers) so that she could take it over the border and spend it. She would buy it from the till since people don't get exchange for US coins, just bills. [ 28 February 2003: Message edited by: Michelle ]
From: I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell. | Registered: May 2001
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Zatamon
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Babbler # 1394
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posted 01 March 2003 01:29 AM
quote: SHH: That said, the idea that Americans are somehow more easily manipulated than our more informed betters is hilarious.
SHH, you contradict yourself when you compare yourself with your "more informed betters". By simple logic it is easy to prove that "more informed betters" are less easy to manipulate! I have been speaking from decades of personal experience when assessing the 'typical and average' American character. I stand by my assessment. PS. Thanks for the praise, Doc [ 01 March 2003: Message edited by: Zatamon ]
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