11-21-2007, 11:01 PM
..I've come to this a little late, but can endorse Peroni's remark...sheds, usually of the 'tin' (i.e. steel) variety are something of a male obsession here too! They serve the practical purpose of housing the lawn- mower and garden tools - but have grown to be so much more...as Deb says, they are the part of the house where the man is King (except in her case of course! ), his private space, where he can leave all sorts of projects part done, like the Harley you're restoring "one day".... ( I believe American males may have a place called 'the Den' that serves a similar function of male sanctum....)
...and for Paul M. (what the?...isn't that me? ), there are many, many cultural differences between us and the 'Poms'...we're good at Sport, for example! :lol:
And for David, just because someone takes a satirical poke at you, doesn't mean it's anti-American...here in Oz we make almost as many jokes about 'septics' ( rhyming slang, not insult : septic tank=yank= American) as we do about 'Poms'....but we love ya to death really ! The world loves to poke fun at an American standing on his dignity.....now if Henrjik was throwing cultural cliches in my direction, I'd be tossing a few back...you know, satirical remarks about windmills, clogs and tulips and dykes (lots of room for double entendres there! )...or dutchmen all being dopeheads on all the freely available drugs wandering around staring at all those girls in the windows.....the equivalent of the cliches about Americans and guns! See? Fight satire with satire!
And before I get a volley of pila from all my Dutch friends, I didn't meanit! :oops: :oops:
...and for Paul M. (what the?...isn't that me? ), there are many, many cultural differences between us and the 'Poms'...we're good at Sport, for example! :lol:
And for David, just because someone takes a satirical poke at you, doesn't mean it's anti-American...here in Oz we make almost as many jokes about 'septics' ( rhyming slang, not insult : septic tank=yank= American) as we do about 'Poms'....but we love ya to death really ! The world loves to poke fun at an American standing on his dignity.....now if Henrjik was throwing cultural cliches in my direction, I'd be tossing a few back...you know, satirical remarks about windmills, clogs and tulips and dykes (lots of room for double entendres there! )...or dutchmen all being dopeheads on all the freely available drugs wandering around staring at all those girls in the windows.....the equivalent of the cliches about Americans and guns! See? Fight satire with satire!
And before I get a volley of pila from all my Dutch friends, I didn't meanit! :oops: :oops:
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
