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Nice video, thanks for posting.

Thanks, Roger, this is most unexpected. In fact, it would've seemed more likely if you posted it three days earlier, and then said "April Fool!" I'll be sure to enjoy the rest of my month.

The Swiss harvest is late this year, so I'm having to eat Italian spaghetti at the moment. Happy Sadie Hogg Day, and see the video on the first page of this thread to see what Roger and I are talking about.

I'll have to look that one up in Webster's Dictionary, Roger .

For no good reason, the word "anthropomorphism" popped in to my head while I was out shopping. I hope it's fancy enough for you, Roger.

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I've been continuing your calculations, Roger, and I think you'll have to reach speeds upward of eight and a half miles an hour to make that jump. Well, no one said emulating Evel Knievel came easy .

rocket (although I was tempted to go for astronuncle after seeing Roger's spelling )

I think Daisy is the middle cousin. Their ages have been debated a few times on HNet - see here as an example.

You forgot to mention the F1 season starting this weekend with the Australian Grand Prix .

Welcome to HNet, Tania. We look forward to your posts.

Going back to the original acronym in this thread, I was just on YouTube watching a stand-up routine from several years ago. The comedian said that she's amazed that she can now text her bank and they'll text back with her balance, although she thought the "LOL" was a bit harsh .

That's another splendiferous word, Hobie.

I've just found the video below on YouTube. While some of the content may be new to visitors, is it really a "shock" to Americans that the Irish are friendly and drive on the left? The video includes a few shots of the place where I live.

I didn't deliberately post a fancy word, Roger, it just seemed to be the right one to use. I don't know if this fits your criterion, but it's a word I like: mellifluous adjective: (of a sound) pleasingly smooth and musical to hear.

apocryphal adjective: (of a story or statement) of doubtful authenticity, although widely circulated as being true.

I thought that quote might be apocryphal, but apparently Henry Ford did say "Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black" during a meeting in 1909. However, according to Wikipedia, the Model T wasn't available in black until 1914. Black was the quickest drying color, and another source says that black was the only color available from 1914 to 1925 so they could keep up with demand.

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That's pretty cool, Roger. My boss is the mother of one of the star hurling players, but she hasn't introduced me yet. Speaking of hurling, I found this video of Americans watching it for the first time. In the movie "Blitz", Jason Statham's character calls hurling "a cross between hockey and murder". Just to explain the scores: you get a point for getting the ball (sliotar) over the crossbar, and a goal for getting it in the net. Each goal equals three points, but they appear separately on the scoreboard, e.g. in the clip, 0-03 is no goals and three points. The hurleys (wooden sticks) do break, and helmets only became compulsory fairly recently! The potato chips (which are known here as crisps) on the table are Tayto. It was Tayto who invented the first flavoured crisps.

This afternoon I went to a hurling match for the first time this year. Considering it's one of the national sports, and the local side are one of the most successful, I really should go more often, but I only seem to get to about one game a year. It's not even that expensive, with tickets at this level under $20. Today's match got worryingly close towards the end, but luckily the home side won by three points.

With all those numbers, I thought you'd starting using l33t sp34k, Roger, and that's a different language!

I'll admit that I found AFZ on a list of textspeak, but I liked it because it's Acronym Free Zone. TLA is one I learned around 1990, but it still seems appropriate as it's Three Letter Abbreviations (or Acronyms). TTFN is reasonably common, meaning Ta Ta For Now (= goodbye). Never mind just gets shortened to NVM in English, and ILY is I Love You. I looks like Why? is just Y? "Waarom" is very similar to the German "Warum", which I remember from school. It's interesting how W8 works in English and Dutch. W + acht = Wacht and W + eight = Weight (which is pronounced "wait"). I once sent my goddaughter a text and simply got the reply "K", which I later (or should I say L8R) learned was short for "OK" (I suppose it takes twice as long to type). I got my own back confusing her by replying to a later text with "Potassium", which has the chemical symbol "K". If anyone has any more good ones, LMK.

IKR, and YOLO. FWIW, my texts/emails are usually an AFZ, and some TLAs leave me SMH. I'll be ROFL at Roger trying to read this. TTFN.

Pharaoh I don't really know "Little Red Riding Hood", but I am familiar with "Wooly Bully". You've gotta love a song that starts "Uno, dos, one, two, tres, quatro."

I've just posted about Bo's Extravaganza in the NASCAR thread, but Roger asked me to start a new topic here. I can't take the credit for discovering this event - that was down to Garrett. John Schneider is hosting Bo’s Extravaganza on April 7th & 8th 2018, his birthday weekend, down in Holden, Louisiana. The current prices on the ticketing site are: Bo's Extravaganza Single Day General Admission Tickets $49.56 Bo's Extravaganza 2 Day General Admission Ticket $44.28 – $81.24 Bo's Extravaganza VIP $423.30 – $740.02 I'll let John tell you what you can expect: Sadly, I won't be able to make it, but I'm sure we'd all love to hear from anyone who's going.