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Re: FRIDAY FUN: Snow day!

Subject: Re: FRIDAY FUN: Snow day!
From: John Garison <john -at- garisons -dot- com>
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 16:57:41 -0500

A number of years ago I was working in New Zealand and interviewing one of the managing partners of my company for some reason or other. We was telling me about a previous company and one of the products they had developed. He said at one point "We released it, and it went like a bomb.' Thinking it had 'bombed' I expressed my sympathy and allowed as I had had some experience with products like that too.

He said - "Naaow (Kiwi-speak for No), it bloody exploded on the market!"

As Winston Churchill opined about the US and its [proper] English-speaking cousins - "Two countries separated by a common language."


My 2¢,

John Garison





Bryan Sherman wrote:

I won't even get started at some of the bizarre slang
stories that bridge the UK-US and US-Australia gap... :-)

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