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  • J Joe Simes

    And replace it with the taste of dirty socks and mold. Went to Embra a few years ago and everyone says ohh you must try the Irn Bru blah blah blah. Well I mostly drank beer and whisky the whole weekend. So I'm in the airport waiting for my flight back to Boston and I look in one of the shops and I see Irn-Bru 32! X|

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    Joe Simes wrote:

    Irn-Bru 32

    Well there is your mistake. the 32 makes a difference. What you had was an Energy Drink. Not real sweet nectar of Irn-Bru (without a number on the end), oh and don't take the diet Irn-Bru either X|

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      Joe Simes wrote:

      the taste of dirty socks and mold

      How do you know what that tastes like?! No, seriously...

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      I think he's talking about the haggis!

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        Joe Simes wrote:

        Irn-Bru 32

        Well there is your mistake. the 32 makes a difference. What you had was an Energy Drink. Not real sweet nectar of Irn-Bru (without a number on the end), oh and don't take the diet Irn-Bru either X|

        Dave Find Me On: Web|Facebook|Twitter|LinkedIn


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        modified on Tuesday, February 1, 2011 2:52 PM

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        DaveAuld wrote:

        sweat nectar of Irn-Bru

        Yeah dirty socks ... sweat ... it's all X| :-D

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          Joe Simes wrote:

          the taste of dirty socks and mold

          How do you know what that tastes like?! No, seriously...

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          Reminds me of this:

          Happy Gilmore asked:

          You eat pieces of s**t for breakfast!?

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            I think he's talking about the haggis!

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            DaveAuld wrote:

            I think he's talking about the haggis!

            :laugh: But I wasn't ;P

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            • J Joe Simes

              DaveAuld wrote:

              sweat nectar of Irn-Bru

              Yeah dirty socks ... sweat ... it's all X| :-D

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              :doh: That was your fault!

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                Wash your mouth out..........with IRN-BRU to get rid of the taste of haggis X|

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                DaveAuld wrote:

                the taste of haggis

                One of my favourite dishes. Unfortunately I missed Robbie's birthday this year so will probably have it this weekend, with neeps and tatties, and a large measure of The Macallan.

                I must get a clever new signature for 2011.

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                • J Joe Simes

                  And replace it with the taste of dirty socks and mold. Went to Embra a few years ago and everyone says ohh you must try the Irn Bru blah blah blah. Well I mostly drank beer and whisky the whole weekend. So I'm in the airport waiting for my flight back to Boston and I look in one of the shops and I see Irn-Bru 32! X|

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                  Graham Shanks
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                  For best results Irn Bru needs to be tasted in the right frame of mind. The morning after lots of beer and whisky normally suffices

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                  • A AspDotNetDev

                    A friend said he and I should visit England and I wanted to see if that includes Ireland (it does not)... surprising how confusing the British Isles are. Thanks to this page, I think I'm finally starting to understand it:

                    • Great Britain includes Scotland, Wales, and England.
                    • The UK includes Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
                    • The British Isles includes the UK, the Republic of Ireland, and a few smaller islands.

                    Now, some questions for you, er, British Isles folk. When somebody says "Britain", do they mean Great Britain or the British Isles? And when somebody says "Ireland", do they mean both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, or do they mean just one of those two? As a bonus question, what are each of these things categorized as (e.g., country, state)? :doh: And before you ask, no, geography was not my strongest subject in school.

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                    Gary R Wheeler
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                    "There's Scotland, there's Ireland, and there's the bloody ocean! Now get out!"

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                    • R R Giskard Reventlov

                      Most of the people that live in London believe that London is the UK and everything outside of the M25 is a strange, inhospitable land inhabited by Morlocks, dwarves, poor people and criminals. :)

                      "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me

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                      digital man wrote:

                      everything outside of the M25 is a strange, inhospitable land inhabited by Morlocks, dwarves, poor people and criminals

                      Ah, North Wales! :)

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                        Ian Shlasko wrote:

                        United States

                        UK.

                        Ian Shlasko wrote:

                        Continental United States

                        Great Britain.

                        Ian Shlasko wrote:

                        Alaska and Hawaii

                        Scotland and Wales.

                        Ian Shlasko wrote:

                        North America

                        British Isles.

                        Ian Shlasko wrote:

                        America

                        Britain. Guess we're not so different after all. :-D

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                        AspDotNetDev wrote:

                        Guess we're not so different after all. :-D

                        Actually youthem guys all talk funny. But we Mare-Kinz are usually too polite to mention it. :laugh: ;P :-D :cool:

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                        • I Ian Shlasko

                          See, we do a better job here... United States = Everything Continental United States = Everything except Alaska and Hawaii, cause they're out in the middle of nowhere (And Sarah Palin can see Russia from her house, dontchaknow!) North America = US, Canada, Mexico, and Greenland America = Just the US again, cause we kinda stole that term... The Canadians and Mexicans may never forgive us :)

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                          Soulus83
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                          Ian Shlasko wrote:

                          America = Just the US again

                          It's just your ego that can't fit in your piece of land :-D Although, thinking about it, I don't know how's the situation with Canada but you'll soon have more mexicans than Mexico, so we will be one country.... X|

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                            Most of the people that live in London believe that London is the UK and everything outside of the M25 is a strange, inhospitable land inhabited by Morlocks, dwarves, poor people and criminals. :)

                            "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me

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                            Pete OHanlon
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                            Or Dalek Dave as we prefer to call him.

                            I'm not a stalker, I just know things. Oh by the way, you're out of milk.

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                            • D Dr Walt Fair PE

                              AspDotNetDev wrote:

                              Guess we're not so different after all. :-D

                              Actually youthem guys all talk funny. But we Mare-Kinz are usually too polite to mention it. :laugh: ;P :-D :cool:

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                              Walt Fair, Jr. wrote:

                              Actually you guys all talk funny.

                              I assume by "you guys" you mean "them guys". I'm Mare-Kin too, dontcha know!

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                                Ian Shlasko wrote:

                                America = Just the US again

                                It's just your ego that can't fit in your piece of land :-D Although, thinking about it, I don't know how's the situation with Canada but you'll soon have more mexicans than Mexico, so we will be one country.... X|

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                                Soulus83 wrote:

                                It's just your ego that can't fit in your piece of land

                                I've been told that some maps show the US larger than it actually is to make the US seem more important. Kinda like how large condoms were air dropped to soldiers so that when enemy solders saw them they would be intimidated (or was that in a movie?).

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                                  Walt Fair, Jr. wrote:

                                  Actually you guys all talk funny.

                                  I assume by "you guys" you mean "them guys". I'm Mare-Kin too, dontcha know!

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                                  Dr Walt Fair PE
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                                  Sorry ... I fixed it.

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                                    DaveAuld wrote:

                                    the taste of haggis

                                    One of my favourite dishes. Unfortunately I missed Robbie's birthday this year so will probably have it this weekend, with neeps and tatties, and a large measure of The Macallan.

                                    I must get a clever new signature for 2011.

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                                    Tom Delany
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                                    Richard MacCutchan wrote:

                                    and a large measure of The Macallan

                                    Is that to deaden the taste of the haggis? :laugh:

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                                      Sorry ... I fixed it.

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                                      AspDotNetDev
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                                      That wasn't necessary, but while you're at it you may want to change that underline to a strikethrough. :)

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                                        That wasn't necessary, but while you're at it you may want to change that underline to a strikethrough. :)

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                                        Dr Walt Fair PE
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                                        Done. I've been eating and sleeping statistics and numerical solutions of PDE's so anything that doesn't involve derivatives and backwards 6's look all the same to me right now. ;P :-D :omg: :-O

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                                          Sorry ... I fixed it.

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                                          Stuart Jeffery
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                                          So how are the Fair Colonials these days?

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