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Subject:Re: DNA
Date:Wed, 08 Jun 2005 15:50:20 +1000
From:shane <remarcsdNOSPAM@ozemail.com.au>
Newsgroups:sci.skeptic,talk.origins,alt.paranet.skeptic,alt.atheism
johac wrote:

> In article <d83djp$17c3$1@bunyip2.cc.uq.edu.au>,
>  John Wilkins <j.wilkins1@uq.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> 
>>johac wrote:
>>
>>>In article <m6Qoe.323$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.]
> 
> 
> I was raised in Queens, a borough of New York City, but that's the 
> closest that I'll probably ever get to being a Queenslander.
> 

Well all is not lost, just start adding "ey" (with interrogative 
inflection rising at the end) to your sentences, ey.

> 
>>...
>>
>>[pauses and thinks]
>>
>>[I am not a Canadian. I am not a Canadian. I am not a Canadian.]


-- 
shane