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Re: Another Top Aussie Icon.
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lugnet.loc.au
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Date:
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Mon, 30 Jan 2006 03:42:17 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, John Neal wrote:
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In lugnet.loc.au, Ross Crawford wrote:
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In lugnet.loc.au, John Neal wrote:
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In lugnet.loc.au, Richie Dulin wrote:
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My sincere apologies to Teunis for mispelling his surname, and my thanks
to Ross (who is also a top Aussie) for spotting my error and pointing it
out.
It’s doubly embarassing for me, because I managed to get it right once
in my post.
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Misspellings can indeed be embarrassing!
As for “doubly”, that is how I prefer all of my music.
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I thought, being a seppo, you’d spell it “dobly” ;)
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<looks up “seppo”> Ahh, well, then now, I don’t quite get your winky.
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I was referring to the well known seppo preference to leave out the “u” on words
which most commonwealth countries spell with “ou”, and...
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was making reference to an infamous gaffe from the movie “This is Spinal Tap”
where Jeanine pronounces “Dolby®” as “doubly”.
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...it fitted nicely with that reference as well. So I winked. Sorry for being so
obscure.
ROSCO
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| (...) <looks up "seppo"> Ahh, well, then now, I don't quite get your winky. I was making reference to an infamous gaffe from the movie "This is Spinal Tap" where Jeanine pronounces "Dolby®" as "doubly". Sorry to be so obscure with my references.... (...) (19 years ago, 30-Jan-06, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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