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Jon
Tell him to come back on Pancake Day. 6 pancakes for breakfast tends to be
more acceptable then.
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/pancakeday/index.htm
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Jon
"Adam Albright" <AA@ABC.net> wrote in message
news:b5vn93hkbcknr64rbu30v759nlo1gm7647@4ax.com...
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:57:20 +1000, "Andrew McLaren"
> <andrew@fakeaddress.com> wrote:
>
>>"Christopher R. Lee" <nobody@wanadoo.fr> wrote...
>>>
>>> * There are plenty stupid things to niggle about at this sort of level.
>>> For example, Program Files is renamed 'Programmes' (in French) in the
>>> explorer. It's worse than aliased filenames in UNIX. How am I supposed
>>> to
>>> find my way
>>
>>Heh, don't get me started on Internationalisation Issues in Vista!
>
> Funny story...
>
> Jay Leno of the Tonight Show recently related an experience he had. He
> was in Europe, somewhere in the UK I think, saying he went into a
> fancy restaurant for breakfast. Jay tells the waiter he wants six
> pancakes, a fairly typical American breakfast.
>
> The waiter looks at him kind of odd and confirms you said you want SIX
> pancakes sir?
>
> Jay say yes, six pancakes please. Shortly after the chef sticks his
> head out of the kitchen and yells out sir, you want SIX pancakes for
> breakfast?
>
> Jay now getting a little annoyed yells back, yes, six pancakes
> wondering what the waiter and now chef finds so odd about his order.
>
> He waits, and waits and almost a hour goes by and still no breakfast
> so Jay is getting a little upset everybody but him has already been
> served breakfast.
>
> Finally the waiter comes and gives Jay his breakfast, six pan cakes.
>
> Jay, confused asks why did you bring me six pound cakes?
>
> Pound cakes sir? We call them pan cakes, that's what you ordered.
> That's why I asked you if you're sure you wanted six of them and after
> all it takes awhile to bake a pan cake.
>
> What Jay wanted of course was pancakes, known as flapjacks or griddle
> cakes in the UK.
>
> Don't get me started on how the British maul the language. -)
>
>
more acceptable then.
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/pancakeday/index.htm
--
Jon
"Adam Albright" <AA@ABC.net> wrote in message
news:b5vn93hkbcknr64rbu30v759nlo1gm7647@4ax.com...
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:57:20 +1000, "Andrew McLaren"
> <andrew@fakeaddress.com> wrote:
>
>>"Christopher R. Lee" <nobody@wanadoo.fr> wrote...
>>>
>>> * There are plenty stupid things to niggle about at this sort of level.
>>> For example, Program Files is renamed 'Programmes' (in French) in the
>>> explorer. It's worse than aliased filenames in UNIX. How am I supposed
>>> to
>>> find my way
>>
>>Heh, don't get me started on Internationalisation Issues in Vista!
>
> Funny story...
>
> Jay Leno of the Tonight Show recently related an experience he had. He
> was in Europe, somewhere in the UK I think, saying he went into a
> fancy restaurant for breakfast. Jay tells the waiter he wants six
> pancakes, a fairly typical American breakfast.
>
> The waiter looks at him kind of odd and confirms you said you want SIX
> pancakes sir?
>
> Jay say yes, six pancakes please. Shortly after the chef sticks his
> head out of the kitchen and yells out sir, you want SIX pancakes for
> breakfast?
>
> Jay now getting a little annoyed yells back, yes, six pancakes
> wondering what the waiter and now chef finds so odd about his order.
>
> He waits, and waits and almost a hour goes by and still no breakfast
> so Jay is getting a little upset everybody but him has already been
> served breakfast.
>
> Finally the waiter comes and gives Jay his breakfast, six pan cakes.
>
> Jay, confused asks why did you bring me six pound cakes?
>
> Pound cakes sir? We call them pan cakes, that's what you ordered.
> That's why I asked you if you're sure you wanted six of them and after
> all it takes awhile to bake a pan cake.
>
> What Jay wanted of course was pancakes, known as flapjacks or griddle
> cakes in the UK.
>
> Don't get me started on how the British maul the language. -)
>
>