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what's with the asterixes ?
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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by Jetrock</i> <br /><br />If you are seeing French comic-book Gallic barbarians jumping around this board, maybe you should try opening a window the next time you glue a model--it appears some ventilation is in order! <br />[img]http://home.freeuk.net/markk/Consoles/asterix-f.jpg[/img] <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />ROFL <br /> <br />I was a big Asterix fan as a kid - still have a few books somewhere. The fun part must have been trying to translate the characters names into English (they're all strangely relevant)... <br /> <br />I recall reading somewhere that the reason there's two spellings for a-s-s is due to the more prudish people of centuries ago - we have a word that sounds the same but is spelt with an r and an e, so the change of spelling was an attempt to "clean up" language - some things never change? [:)]. To me, that's another name for a donkey rather than anything else!
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