Hey Hawkeye and PoSSum............The wires that run past Bragg-Smith Driving School are called POWER LINES
Posted by JohnS (Member # 1073) on :
I'm glad I own an SS, eh! I don't have to keep explaining that Zed 28 is the real name for a Zee 28. Then there's the talk aboot the colours of the cars.
Hey, I just got used to saying Oregun, instead of Oregone.
Posted by poSSum (Member # 119) on :
quote:Originally posted by HTWLSS: Hey Hawkeye and PoSSum............The wires that run past Bragg-Smith Driving School are called POWER LINES
Nope .... just entered my electricity bill ... cheque (check) is payable to Manitoba Hydro ... and all the lines belong to them.
Posted by HTWLSS (Member # 117) on :
Hydro Lines?
Hydro = water
They don't carry WATER......they carry POWER.
Power Lines.
Posted by JohnS (Member # 1073) on :
You're right Teri. Hydro does mean water. Up here in the Great White North, we run water through the lines, it freezes solid (cold up here, eh!), and then conducts electricity.
PS: If you believe this, I've got a purple 35th Anniversary LS-6 SS in my garage I'd like to sell you.
Posted by HTWLSS (Member # 117) on :
quote:Originally posted by JohnS: ............................ I've got a purple 35th Anniversary LS-6 SS in my garage I'd like to sell you.
Only if it's the one with Yellow stripes will I even consider it....
Posted by JohnS (Member # 1073) on :
That's the one - two yellow stripes front to back - first $40,000 Canadian or $2.50 American takes it. Posted by HTWLSS (Member # 117) on :
A check/cheque is in the mail....... Posted by XLR8NSS (Member # 1065) on :
Those people have WAY TOO much time on their hands!
Posted by Jim Mac (Member # 113) on :
One thing that drives me nuts: Cars have a trunk or a hatch, not a "boot". A "boot" is something you wear on your foot. Or does "foot" mean something different in British English?
It was interesting to see the discussion on "y'all": I didn't realize that people weren't aware of how it was spelled. It's funny: I'm 22 years removed from Texas, yet an ocasional "y'all" will slip into my speech. And, if I start talking with anyone from the south, I'll very easily slip into a drawl.
Posted by poSSum (Member # 119) on :
I like "y'all" regardless of where it's from .. as in "Y'all have a good day, Eh!!" Posted by HTWLSS (Member # 117) on :
I'll throw in an American "HUH?"
(I've been informed by some of our Canadian friends in B.C. that "HUH?" sounds harsh)
Oh, we also use the "bathroom" in America for going potty.......Canadians use the "washroom".
Canadians just sound more polite, huh?
Posted by MaryandRalph (Member # 244) on :
Here is a few,
youens = PA way of saying all of you, or could be a notheren way for yawl
Soda = not sure were this came from but most want a coke. go figure.
Ralph
Posted by DaddySS (Member # 848) on :
Mine are "rooter" instead of router. I keep wanting to tell them that's what roto uses, not a device to direct data - data not dahta.
Also, when the brits send a memo in Word, and you update it, it does the spell check in the queens english, so realize etc. come up as mispelled!
Posted by Hawkeye (Member # 88) on :
Guess I got in this a little late.
You mean the "Hydro Lines?"
Posted by poSSum (Member # 119) on :
quote:Originally posted by HTWLSS: I'll throw in an American "HUH?"
The one that gets me in service in U.S. restaurants, we say "thank you" .... the waiter/waitress responds "Uh Huh".
quote:Oh, we also use the "bathroom" in America for going potty.......Canadians use the "washroom".
Not always ... on the way to Bowling Green the message on the Walkie Talkie was "Curtis needs to stop for a s##t"
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Posted by NATESS (Member # 982) on :
now teri, i thought that electricity ran through those lines. if you want to get technical (or is it spelled tequenical in canada ), then they are called electrical lines .
Posted by JohnS (Member # 1073) on :
It's not spelled "tequenical", it's spelled toque-nical.
