sarcasm
irony or something that the yanks just don't get.

It was a month or more ago

I'm baiting a hook, just can't remember the bait's name


smack

Are you talking about this one;
Reposted from uk.rec.motorcycles;
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"PeterT" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:bb7aqv$d2s$(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>
>
> From the New York Times, 28th of May
>
>
> American man 'gets' irony
>
> Jay Fullmer, 38, yesterday became the first American to get to grips with
> the concept of irony.
> "It was weird" Fullmer said. "I was in London and like, talking to this guy
> and it was raining and he pulled a face and said, "Great weather eh?" and I
> thought - "Wait a minute, no way is it great weather". Fullmer then
> realised that the other man's 'mistake' was in fact deliberate.
> Fullmer, who is 39 next month and married with two children, aged 8 and 3,
> plans to use irony himself in future. "I'm, like, using it all the time" he
> said. "Last weekend I was grilling steaks and I burned them and I said
> "Hey, great weather."
>
>
>
> --
> ts350 xl600v
> petert
>
>

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"smack" <smack@kn'right.com> wrote in message news:HG%3b.924$(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> sarcasm
> irony or something that the yanks just don't get.
>
> It was a month or more ago
>
> I'm baiting a hook, just can't remember the bait's name
>
>
> smack
>
>

smack wrote:
> sarcasm
> irony or something that the yanks just don't get.
>
> It was a month or more ago
>
> I'm baiting a hook, just can't remember the bait's name

Hey, great wether.

--
Pete
Fat Black Harley (Road Toad)

On 30/8/2003 22:03, in article so04b.927$(E-Mail Removed),
"smack" <smack@kn'right.com> wrote:

> I knew you'de come through
> That's the one
>
> ta Clem I owe you a farex in Jan


He's going ot pay you back for your help on this one by giving you a
repulsive, rice based, infants cereal? Wouldn't a beer be more appropriate??
K

"Kathy Vickers" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote;
> .....Wouldn't a beer be more appropriate??
> K
~
No wonder we all look up to you Kathy!
Clem

Sayeth Kathy Vickers <(E-Mail Removed)>:
>
> He's going ot pay you back for your help on this one by giving you a
> repulsive, rice based, infants cereal? Wouldn't a beer be more appropriate??

You ferment Farex to get Fourex, I think :-)

(sorry I didn't pop in to visit you and VB ... the weather was
being impolite, and I wanted to get home before dark ... hope
Hammo enjoyed his DRIVE!)

-----sharks
--
Du verschwendest Übertragungskapazitäten.

Knobdoodle wrote:
> "Kathy Vickers" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote;
>
>>.....Wouldn't a beer be more appropriate??
>>K
>
> ~
> No wonder we all look up to you Kathy!

I certainly do!!

--
Pete ¨...shoulda heard what Hammo said about you on IRC Sharkz!¨
Fat Black Harley (Road Toad)

On 31/8/03 10:07 PM, in article Szl4b.911$(E-Mail Removed),
"****head Pete" <(E-Mail Removed)> decided to come out from
under the bed and slurred:

> Knobdoodle wrote:
>> "Kathy Vickers" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote;
>>
>>> .....Wouldn't a beer be more appropriate??
>>> K
>>
>> ~
>> No wonder we all look up to you Kathy!
>
> I certainly do!!

You old honey dripper, you.

>
> --
> Pete ¨...shoulda heard what Hammo said about you on IRC Sharkz!¨
> Fat Black Harley (Road Toad)

It was all true as well. Especially the bits that were particularly harsh.

Hammo

(Yeah, you'll never get scones cooked for you, stand my wife up willya!!)
>

On 31/8/2003 17:02, in article (E-Mail Removed),
"sharkey" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> (sorry I didn't pop in to visit you and VB ... the weather was
> being impolite, and I wanted to get home before dark ... hope
> Hammo enjoyed his DRIVE!)
>
> -----sharks
> --
> Du verschwendest Übertragungskapazitäten.


That's ok. That's what I figured had happened.

I needed a day at home anyway.

Kathy