Thursday, March 30, 2006
england, meet new england
Ilona and Steve are here from london, and they keep giggling about the English names of the towns. it's especially amusing to them that the city of new london has a river called the thames. they also find it riotous that shopping carts (trolleys, to them) are called "carriages" here. speaking of stupid things to say, Hugsband has a student who refers to facial tissues as "puffs." that's infinitely dumber than calling them "kleenex." he's from the south, though, so there you go.
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Goofballs! Well I hope you're all having fun. It's definately a damn sight better than being here right now as our house has been laid up with a bad flu all week...oh well. Have fun, monchichis!
xoxo
T
xoxo
T
# posted by 
: 10:21 AM
: 10:21 AM
if it helps you feel any better, I am getting more and more jealous as I hear about all of the filene's basement and vintage plans in store for chicago.
I think I've heard the word "puffs" used before in that context.
I don't know why those two are laughing so much about the English origins of the town names. All the colonists named stuff after various places and persons in the motherland. I didn't know about the Thames in America, which is kind of unusual.
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I don't know why those two are laughing so much about the English origins of the town names. All the colonists named stuff after various places and persons in the motherland. I didn't know about the Thames in America, which is kind of unusual.
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