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If you have 1000 mockingbirds and you buy another 1000, do you have a Harper Lee novel?
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Well done, sir. This one took me a couple seconds. I got the book title, but then struggled to figure out the word play. 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Sir Griff,
I am rather worried that you may be making a bird of a feather here...
Life is too shor
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You should tweet that one.
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Having never read that book, I can safely say what you'd have is 2,000 mockingbirds and a lot of bird poop.
Jeremy Falcon
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With a predator bird nearby there will be a lot of blood as well...
Life is too shor
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Or a Hitchcock film.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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I'm missing the Translation/guidline for "non UK Humor experts"  
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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That's only available to people who can spell the word "humour" properly.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: That's only available to people who can spell the word "humour" properly.
So - I guess you didn't get it.
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Just because your country doesn't know how to spell, that doesn't mean you get to force other countries to use your embuggered spellings. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I am delighted to hear you feel "embuggered" !
(pass the K-Y)
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Not me - it's the spelling you 'merkins have embuggered.
And the pronunciation.
And some of the words.
But other than that, you're not too bad at the language we invented.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Well, actually, a revolution was the cause of the split.
We had to gain our independence in order to get rid of that French-style spelling you hug so dearly.
Invented . . . perhaps . . . in a manner of speaking. Then we took hold to finally get it right.
We relegate the frog-language-references to things like a description of greasy deep-fried potatoes.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: We relegate the frog-language-references to things like a description of greasy deep-fried potatoes.
That's only because you took their proper name (chips) and applied it to a completely different potato product (crisps).
And don't even get me started on your versions of "biscuits" and "gravy"!
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Potatoes are a new-world vegetable.
Why should one call cookies something silly like biscuits? Ridiculous.
And try this link: [clickity]
Another sticky wicket, eh guv?
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Potatoes are a new-world vegetable.
Which the new-world natives didn't know how to use, until some clever old-world bloke came up with the idea of cooking them.
W∴ Balboos wrote: Why should one call cookies something silly like biscuits?
Cookies are a type of biscuit. What you lot call "biscuits" are actually scones.
W∴ Balboos wrote: And try this link: [clickity]
Apart from the fact that your link's broken, "gravy" is a specific type of sauce, not a blanket term for every type of sauce.
W∴ Balboos wrote: Another sticky wicket, eh guv?
Have you been taking elocution lessons from Dick Van Dyke?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Potato already domesticated in what is now Southern Peru a lot of thousand years ago. Oddly enough, these folks had discovered fire and cooking. They even learned to eat tubers that were otherwise toxic unless adequately cooked.
Scones, so far as I'm concerned, are English slang for a venereal disease.
We do not call all sauces gravy - far from it. Gravy's are a specific class of sauces, typically made from meat, poultry, mushrooms, or some other base. They are typically used on meat and/or potatoes. Unlike for example, "tomato sauce", or dressings.
Dick Van Dyke,* for all his flaws, clearly was the most intelligible British Isles speaker of English to date. Even if he was just acting the part. You'd be well advised to emulate him as you progress towards properly spoken English as is spoken upon this side of the Atlantic.
* Actually - from the variety of BBC shows I've seen - English hasn't been spoken on the British Isles for decades, although I'd wager it's been even a longer absence.
Gotta' Go - so you're welcome to the last word!
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Dick Van Dyke,* for all his flaws, clearly was the most intelligible British Isles speaker of English to date.
In much the same way that James Doohan had the most realistic Scottish accent ever.
W∴ Balboos wrote: Gotta' Go - so you're welcome to the last word!
No, no, old bean - I insist you have it. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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The stuff Americans believe!
The -or spelling was the common English spelling when the legendary Pilgrim Fathers arrived (don't get me started on the mythical elements of that story!). America just never grew out of it so it's nowt to do with revolution ... quite the opposite in fact! The -our spelling came from those responsible for the publication of dictionaries in the second half of the 18th Century most of whom were actually citizens of Edinburgh with an elevated respect for France (The Auld Alliance) and little or none for the English whom they considered barbarian simpletons for the most part!
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You've proven my point - that the '-our' spelling is nothing short of the devil's influence.
As for 'barbarian simpletons' - by that time the English had the Magna Carta long established whilst the Frog-croakers still had absolute monarchs. They, the real simpletons, didn't have the wit to throw off the chains of their in-bred rulers until, finally, the '-or' speakers of English showed how it can be done.
Member 9082365 wrote: merica just never grew out of it
Grow out of it? Grow part is correct - but the analogy would be far more accurate if one likened it to growing a wart on their lip. Sorry - we'll pass on that one.
The things 'mericans' believe.
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One more again me... and the trouble with humor,humour, homer...the latest one is the most easy for me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZygK3yvUee4[^]
.... and that is not my only Problem with english language
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Such a fowl notion! At this point, it's robin me the wrong way.
Although I must say you have a talon for this type of stuff.
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What a load of crop!
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Looney Lunes
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Ooh la la papa is a potato and el papa is the pope mobile, alabama at a place they call Big Jack the Rip Tornado a dear John letters from Iwo Nellie Bligh M. Pieholey cow jumped over the moon unitarian nation of Islamabadfingerhut hut says the QB. Traven wrote Treasure of the Sierra Club sandwiches and warlocks and bagulliver's Travels with Charley the Lonesome Cougar Mellencampo seco honey for Winnie the Pooh
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It'd be good if you posted the links for these at some point, I can generally only figure 30% of them.
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