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Subject:Re: DNA
Date:Tue, 07 Jun 2005 16:07:55 +1000
From:John Wilkins <j.wilkins1@uq.edu.au>
Newsgroups:sci.skeptic,talk.origins,alt.paranet.skeptic,alt.atheism
johac wrote:
> In article <m6Qoe.323$z33.1177@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au>,
>  shane <remarcsdNOSPAM@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> 
> 
>>johac wrote:
>>
>>
>>>In article <ZfudnS2Kw7ZD3D7fRVn-tg@comcast.com>,
>>> "JTEM" <gymraven@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>"Val Mirov" <val.mirov@sbcglobal.net> wrote
>>>>          [---snip---]
>>>>
>>>>I give it a three.
>>>
>>>
>>>You're generous, but at least he didn't misspell 'DNA'.
>>
>>Probably doesn't even know what DN is 'ey.
>>
>>For Aussies, a Queensland joke, (where thay are more prone to add 'ey' 
>>at the end of sentences). Other nationalities will undoubtedly supply 
>>their own victims.
> 
> 
> 'ey what?

No, Queenslanders add "eh" to their sentences, not "ey", eh? You need the 
interrogative inflection rising at the end.

[I am not a Queenslander. I am not a Queenslander. I am not a Queenslander.]

...

[pauses and thinks]

[I am not a Canadian. I am not a Canadian. I am not a Canadian.]

-- 
John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biohumanities Project
University of Queensland - Blog: evolvethought.blogspot.com
"Darwin's theory has no more to do with philosophy than any other
hypothesis in natural science." Tractatus 4.1122