coffee and beer: language and culture/drinking activity

From: Diane Hodges (dhodges@ceo.cudenver.edu)
Date: Tue May 15 2001 - 22:36:59 PDT


xmca@weber.ucsd.edu writes:
>I repeat DNA'a statement "time is an illusion, lunch time doubly so". So
>we have time for lunch in New Zeland! ho hum! I am in the wrong universe.

well as bill points out, your toilet water swirls differently. :)

>
>As some of you will recently have noticed, we are all hobbits down here.
>And
>one thing hobbits always try not to do is to miss lunch.

Marge: I'll have a coffee
Ozzie Bartender: Bee-ah eet iz.
Marge" No, a coffee.
Ozzie Bartender: Bee-ah.
Marge: CAW-FEE
Ozzie Bartender: BEE-AAH
Marge: No! C - O - F -F ...
Ozzie Bartender: Bah-EE -EE - EE ...

cheers
di

"If you'll excuse me now, I'd like to be alone with my sandwich."
Homer



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