les clark / edgewater, nj / usa wrote
> In <5.1.0.14.2.20030927174436.00a16300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, on 09/27/03
> at 05:48 PM, Gregg Iverson <golftooter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> >Other
> >than the fact they speak a little strangely, everyone I have known from
> >there over the past 35 years or so have been extremely nice - so nice
> >that I still remember them all distinctly.
>
> I once had an NZ colleague, new to the university and new to the USA, who
> felt it necessary to be very sober and accurate all the time. He never
> answered a question with "Yes" or "No," always with "Negative" or
> "Positive." He always changed into his tennis shorts near five o'clock,
> just prior to jumping into his "Jag" before going to practice. He never
> forgave me for remarking that he had borrowed his wife's "Ply"* when his
> auto was in the repair shop.
Some mothers do have 'em =|;-)>
Brian
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