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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 29, 2004 10:21 PM
Rosharon, Texas USA, very small suberb on the south side of Houston.
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Posted by vsmith on Thursday, September 30, 2004 12:18 PM
Ian, Ronnie, Phil, Gscale THANKS, I wanted to get my facts right and i can see what I was told was not accurate, now I know the more accurate accounts. Thanks again.

BTW... English/Swedish on Dads side, Scotch/Irish on Mom's go to the Yearly Highland festival here and were my Clan Davidson tartan kilt.

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 30, 2004 1:59 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by iandor

Vic

There are many theories where and how this word originated but it generally refers to anyone from Britain but mainly English people. Britain is our mother and Ireland is also our illegitimate mother as well; and Wales and Scotland are our aunties. USA and Canada are our big brothers and New Zealand is little brother and South Africa is our illegitimate cousin. The Welsh and to a lesser extant the Scots are regarded as Poms with their brains kicked in. This is the view of a Sydneysider, as I think about 40 % of all people from Sydney can trace their lineage back to Ireland. I have been married twice and both wives were half English and half Irish and I am half English and half Scottish.

So the closer you are to us the more likely we are to put sht on you, particularly so on ourselves, so in this back to front country; if we insult you it is only because we like you. Another funny thing the term Mr is just about never used; as to many it is verging on being an insult, in truth it means "we don't relate to you" and to call yourself Mr is thejust about the worst thing you can do, irrespective of who you are. For instance we would call George W Bush, George and only Mr if we didn't like him. I think this is to do with our convict past, anyone who professes to be better than any one else is not to be trusted. Our Prime Minister had George over for a Barbie one day and he wanted to meet Steve Erwin; and i can tell you Steve called him George or even Bushie.

The minute a cricket or rugby tour is announced, the British press get right into our players about anything they can, even people who are no longer playing; even some that are dead. They only do this in self defence because anything they do we are are lot tougher on them.

To give you an idea, their was a bloke called Harold Larwood; a fast bowler (cricket) a very fast English bowler who was directed by his captain to bowl at the man and not the wicket, this was termed the "bodyline series" in 1932. After WW2 he migrated to a place called Gosford just north of Sydney and as recently as the ninetees he was still getting death threats in the mail.


So to fini***he idea; Ronnies idea of pomegranat is the most common accepted here but so is the term refering to our convict past about POHM Prisoner Of His Majesty. Also a British Naval term Port Out Marker is to do with convict ships leaving Albion for Australia.


Hope you get something from all this and may explain some of the things i have had to say but also be aware Sydneysiders are as different from other Aussies, as New Yorkers are from your average yank. And the similarity to New Yorkers does not end there.


Regards


Ian


Ian,

May I copy and post your response on a political forum I frequent? I will of course give you credit in a cited source.

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Posted by grandpopswalt on Friday, October 1, 2004 2:41 AM
I live in Deep River, Conncticut, USA, population 4500. Actually we live in the Winthrop section of Deep River. Our town was settled in the late 1600's by religious puritans fleeing persecution from the folks in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The town was officially incorporated in 1947. DR is more a village than a town. We have very little industry and only modest commercial enterprises. Thus our tax base is almost entirely supported by individual homeowners. We're situated about 5 miles north of the mouth of the Connecticut River and roughly equidistant from New Haven and New London, about 25 miles. We're also equidistant from New York and Boston, about 120 miles.

We have four clearly defined seasons. Summers are mild, seldom reaching 90 deg. F and winter lows are seldom below 15 deg. F. The entire area is sparsly populated and most homesites are 1 to 2 acres and most are situated in the forest. However, we can find upscale shopping, bookstores, fine restaurants and nightclubs, etc within a half hour's drive.

We've lived here over 30 years and still love it.

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, October 1, 2004 5:19 AM
I live in Stanhope, NJ. For all of you who dont know where that is its in Northern NJ.
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, October 3, 2004 7:52 PM
I have just seen the "number of members" counter click over to 164,000. That is of course for the entire forum. I don't know how many of those are Garden Railways regulars but even if it is only 1 percent, that's 1640 readers. And poor Rene had only 34 responses to her poll before it went quiet, of which about 6 of them were wasted by me and the Aussies having a private conversation so effectively only about 28 people out of potentially thousands have responded. Shame, I think she deserves better and I feel guilty for wrecking her thread so I'm bumping this one back up to the top of the page. C'mon, guys [}:)][}:)]
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Posted by grandpopswalt on Sunday, October 3, 2004 8:48 PM
Phil,

I'm confused. Adelaide, the capitol of South Austrailia? As opposed to Sydney, capitol of North Austrailia?

Walt
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, October 3, 2004 10:32 PM
Good Evening Rene
I live in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. The population of our City is about 50,000 people. It's a great city. Come and visit us sometime when you can.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, October 5, 2004 2:19 AM
Hi guys,
As previously stated many times, I live in Blackpool on Englands NW coast - about a mile in from the sea. The town still connects to the West Coast main line (London to Glasgow) and joins it at Preston, about 14 miles inland. The town is a holiday destination with a huge Victorian tower, theme park, a stretch of promenade called the 'golden Mile' and we still have a great tram system that runs some trams around the 100 year old mark. We have illuminations through September/October/early November with the light display coming right down the promenade for about four miles. All in all, not a bad little place - and we have a G scale shop! Go to http//:www.blackpool.gov.uk
Cheers,
Kim
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Posted by Gary Crawley on Tuesday, October 5, 2004 5:42 AM
Hi Rene
I live in Canberra, ACT (Australian Capital Terrritory) Australia. population app 350,000.
This is our National Capital and also the highest city in the country, thats O/K if you like snow.
I have no idea how many Garden Railway people are in the Territory, but if there are more reply to the Forum.
Walt, Sydney is the capital of New South Wales
It's fantastic to see how many diverse people and places there are in the World.
Best Regards
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, October 5, 2004 11:15 PM
I LIVE IN ARNOLD MO. JUST OUTSIDE OF ST.LOUIS MO. KNIGHTWHISTLE
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Posted by Tom The Brat on Wednesday, October 6, 2004 8:05 AM
I live in the Asylum in Macomb Illinois!

(watch out for this guy)
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Posted by chuckger on Wednesday, October 6, 2004 3:43 PM
Hi Rene,
I'm in Hamburg Pa, USA

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 6, 2004 3:53 PM
chuckger
do you live near ROAD SIDE AMERICA ON RT.78??? I live in Lebanon PA. ben




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