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**CyclChyk** · 11-25-2006, 11:28 PM

At least you are giving the neighbors something to talk about. There's nothing worse than boring neighbors and I am surrounded by them

And nothing soothes the soul like a good song.....

**crazycanuck** · 11-25-2006, 11:50 PM

Cchk-Boston's a nice city & would like to go back one day.

KG-Whinge means whine & is pronunced like hinge.

It's an Australian & Kiwi word...If you really want to hear it, you could always watch a couple of the following Australian & NZ films & see if they say it:
Muriel's Wedding
Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Dirty Deeds
Once were warriors
Scarfies
The Castle
Romper Stomper-(back when russel crowe was young!!)
Goodbye Pork Pie
An Angel At my Table
Heavenly Creatures

I don't know if the humour of The Castle, Goodbye Pork Pie & Scarfies would be totally understood in Canada/US..

c

**Offthegrid** · 11-26-2006, 04:25 AM

Stop talking about snow!

I HATE the stuff. (But then why the heck do I live in the Northeast? Good question.)

**mimitabby** · 11-26-2006, 05:39 AM

Originally Posted by snapdragen

I really like the word whinge.

me too. how do you pronounce it? do you pronounce the G?

well, there's snow mixed in the rain this morning. It's bitter cold okay, for HERE it's bitter cold, about 36 degrees. DH wants to ride today. He's gone off the deep end and I am NOT following him.
Yesterday was bad enough at 38 with sunshine. This is 36 with snow mixed with rain falling down.
crazy crazy crazy. i'm not going there!

Instead i will do fun INDOOR activities, thank you very much.

It was nice to have ridden yesterday, but the pain in my hands was very disturbing.
I only went 16 miles. did my arms shorten up since October? what the heck is going on?

CrazyC, (we have two CC's i noticed) you are right that we would miss the humor. When watching british or australian films I do a lot of huh? what did he say?
and that's with words I already know.

**Trek420** · 11-26-2006, 06:31 AM

crazycanuck "If you really want to, you can check out the weather in west aust."

oh yeah....

Early drizzle, then fine.
Fine.
Possible late storm, then fine
Fine. Early cloud.
Fine. Mostly sunny.
Fine.
Fine and sunny.
Fine, mostly sunny......

and earlier "...Remember not to eat any yellow snow..." ewwww, but do write your name in it.

CC, that's better than here

Kitsune06 · 11-26-2006, 06:49 AM

the weather here? Wet. From October to April. Wet. Blinding flashes of some unknown orb rising in the sky in the east, thankfully obscured by the soft, mother-like clouds, then setting in the west, where it can no longer harm us...
yay for pnw.

**kelownagirl** · 11-26-2006, 07:46 AM

OTG - plug your ears. Well, the snow is still falling, but it's cold and not big flakes any more so it takes awhile to pile up. It's -6 right now (21F). Then some really cold air from the north is supposed to descend upon us tomorrow with lows of -22 (-8F) and highs is -13 (8F) most of next week.

Nevertheless, I am going to dig out my cross country skis which I have not used in about 10 years and ski out my door today. When I bought this house two years ago, I was excited to be out of the valley bottom again and looked forward to getting much more snow. Unfortunately we had almost no snow last winter so I am looking forward to it even more now.

**kelownagirl** · 11-26-2006, 07:48 AM

Crazy - I have never heard of any of those films. Well, I think maybe Muriel's Wedding sounds familiar.

Trek - don't I quite have the talent required to write my name in the snow. Maybe my little guy could do it but I'm hesitant to suggest it.

**mimitabby** · 11-26-2006, 07:56 AM

Originally Posted by kelownagirl

Crazy - I have never heard of any of those films. Well, I think maybe Muriel's Wedding sounds familiar.

Trek - don't I quite have the talent required to write my name in the snow. Maybe my little guy could do it but I'm hesitant to suggest it.

Yeah, I can hear him in the school ground, talking to his teacher; "yes, but my mom taught me how to do it!"

**kelownagirl** · 11-26-2006, 08:02 AM

Originally Posted by mimitabby

Yeah, I can hear him in the school ground, talking to his teacher; "yes, but my mom taught me how to do it!"

And at our school, no teacher would be surprised.

**snapdragen** · 11-26-2006, 08:03 AM

Originally Posted by crazycanuck

Muriel's Wedding
Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Romper Stomper-(back when russel crowe was young!!)
Heavenly Creatures

I've actually seen these three!! I think. I'm actually not sure about Romper Stomper, but it sounds very familiar.

I love Aussie humor, along with British humor. Our local PBS station used to show all kinds of "imports" - lots and lots of comedy. Now it seems to show nothing but "How to improve your life and live to be a million years old, even if you don't want to...here have a hug" shows.

I'm becoming addicted to the two games on my new Palm. One is plain old solitare, the other is Bejeweled. This is bad.

**Trek420** · 11-26-2006, 08:10 AM

kelownagirl "Trek - don't I quite have the talent required to write my name in the snow. Maybe my little guy could do it but I'm hesitant to suggest it.

"

oh look, he's writing his name, and he's doing his homework in snow....awww, how cute.

**kelownagirl** · 11-26-2006, 09:00 AM

I was just checking Denise223's last post and she was concerned about a questionable mammogram test. Sure hope everything's ok....

**Bikingmomof3** · 11-26-2006, 10:13 AM

KG-I just emailed Denise. I will let you know what I hear.

**kelownagirl** · 11-26-2006, 10:15 AM

Did you use her cycling4life email address? I emailed her yesterday too but haven't heard back yet.

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