Hans-Joerg Mueller said:Perhaps if you lived nearer the French-speaking provinces and their rather odd rules it would not amuse you so much.
...I'm also quite amused by how ruffled some feathers get when the subjects of "French" comes up.
tac
Ottawa Valley GRS
Terry A de C Foley said:Hans-Joerg Mueller said:Perhaps if you lived nearer the French-speaking provinces and their rather odd rules it would not amuse you so much.
...I'm also quite amused by how ruffled some feathers get when the subjects of "French" comes up.tac
Ottawa Valley GRS
As an ex-Ontarian (30 years) who had the pleasure of plenty of business trips to Québec and Nouveau Brunswick I was amused then and I’m still amused.
Best laugh in that regard was at GE in Quebec City, while setting up a Swiss machine. The service engineer from the factory was from Neuchatel, the salesman was from Lausanne and I was the odd man out (from Zürich). The laugh was when a Québecois commented on the “funny French” they speak in Switzerland. It was snicker-snicker time in a very major way.
For the uninitiated: The French spoken in Neuchatel is the way French is written and Lausanne is not for off the mark, give or take a few extra expressions. 
TAC
I find it amusing that some take a genuine American Term “Red Neck”, the term originally used to describe a Mississippi River barge poler, and think it applies in the country where they reside currently.
The Lone Railroader said:
TACI find it amusing that some take a genuine American Term “Red Neck”, the term originally used to describe a Mississippi River barge poler, and think it applies in the country where they reside currently.
The Boers called the British soldiery by the nickname ‘rooie-nek’ - ‘red-neck’ on account of their habit of getting severe sunburn in that location.
tac
Ottawa Valley GRS
Terry A de C Foley said:The Lone Railroader said:
TACI find it amusing that some take a genuine American Term “Red Neck”, the term originally used to describe a Mississippi River barge poler, and think it applies in the country where they reside currently.
Ah. An example of nomenclative transference. Here in UK we do not use the term red-neck for anything at all, as it was the translation of a term of derision used by the Boers during the recent Anglo-Boer War - 1898-1902.The Boers called the British soldiery by the nickname ‘rooie-nek’ - ‘red-neck’ on account of their habit of getting severe sunburn in that location.
tac
Ottawa Valley GRS
And farmers bore the same nic for the same reason…working in the sun out in the fields resulted in a red neck. Today in the US it tends to mean any conservative, ignorant country boy…or member of the NRA. 
Here we go starting another stupid argument or fight. Has anybody else noticed that this kind of runs in a 28 day cycle? It must be the phases of the moon or somebody’s monthly cycle. Get drunk, laugh and enjoy life or piss and moan, its up to you.
Warren Mumpower said:This label is only used by Socialist Coward Liberals to describe Conservatives.
And farmers bore the same nic for the same reason....working in the sun out in the fields resulted in a red neck. Today in the US it tends to mean any conservative, ignorant country boy...or member of the NRA. :(
Ric,
No reason to get excited.
Up here in the “Great White North” the largest number of RedNecks are supposedly in Alberta.
http://www.albertaredneck.com/
http://www.wtc.ab.ca/tedyck/RN.1.edit.htm
But the attitude that goes with the term is quite prevalent in the North Okanagan, hence the bumper sticker I mentioned earlier. Of course we also have real cowboys here. 
With apparel to match, adds a bit of variety to the picture. :lol:
PS Hmmmmm … looks like someone’s getting excited! 
The most irritating phrase of all ?
OF COURSE !!! Of course ? If it was of course , and so bloody obvious , why say it ?
Think how often some illiterate uses that phrase . Of course , he does it to impress YOU with his SUPerior knowledge . MISuse of CAPital letters is also of course totally indicative of any knowledge of how to EMPHASISE things .
I rest MY case .
MIKe
Well, you know if in doubt consult the urban dictionary http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Red+Neck
ud said:
[b]6. red neckPeople who live in Prattsville, Arkansas.[/b]
Since I’m a red neck I only ride two things a day, my John Deer tractor and my sister.
HJ said:I guess they all have cute sisters.....:D
There are certainly definitions 1 through 5, plus a few more after 6, but definition 6 made me ask: "what is it with Arkansas?"
I was gonna, but decided not to…
…leading up to the 28th day, and counting…my contribution is the thought that all of the recent World troubles started when women and native people were given the vote…!!! Never has been the same since…but then, the slow progress of any warm weather towards some places around here, leads others and even me, to some rather odd views on the crazy World, as we know it.
BRING ON THE SPRING......and if there is, a woman with her hand on the warm weather valve.......TURN IT COUNTER CLOCKWISE......that usually causes the valve to open.“No reason to get excited,” the thief, he kindly spoke,
“There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.
But you and I, we’ve been through that, and this is not our fate,
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.”
Rod,
That levels the playing field! :lol:
Rod Hayward said:All along the watchtower Princes kept the view While horsemen came and went Barefoot servants too
"No reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke, "There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate, So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late."
All I got is a red guitar
Three chords
And the truth
All I got is a red guitar
The rest is up to you
The Lone Railroader said:Rod Hayward said:All along the watchtower Princes kept the view While horsemen came and went Barefoot servants too
"No reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke, "There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate, So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late."All I got is a red guitar
Three chords
And the truth
All I got is a red guitar
The rest is up to you
Never burned any of my guitars and don’t plan on doing it either.
<< “There must be some way out of here,” said the joker to the thief,
“There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief.
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth,
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.” >>
Rod Hayward said:
Well, the strat is sorta red....
Hmmmmmmm now that is interesting!
Of course as a “low rate” musician I could never afford a Strat, so it was Italian stuff that got fine-tuned and “mangled” (there’s that word again). Do some work, save a Franc. But I had a really nice Fender amp with reverb and all that good stuff.
And then there was the Höfner Jazz guitar, which I converted to a nine string job à la Big Joe Williams. Who said kitbashing/mangling was restricted to model railroading?