posted on November 23, 2004 05:54:29 PM new
Yep, one of the travel writers says his first experience with this was when he registered at the Brit B&B, the lady at the desk said "what time do you want me to knock you up?" Whoa.
posted on November 23, 2004 06:19:36 PM new
Well, after some thought here are a few more:
The subway is the underground or "the tube".
In the tube stations instead of "Watch Your Step" between the cars and the platform, it is "Mind the Gap". I have one of these signs.
Television is "the telly".
The long street leading up to Buckingham Palace is "The Mall" pronounced Mal with a long A.
Bars are "pubs" for public places. They usually have snacks or meals(not really good for American tastes) and in the country, people take their kids to the pubs.
What we call the first floor in a building is the ground floor then on to the first, second, etc. The elevators say G instead of 1 or lobby.
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posted on November 23, 2004 07:23:33 PM new
When I was 19, a long time ago, my cousin and I spent 4 months bumming around europe. We started in England. I still remember a guy we struck up a conversation with in a pub, the same one wherein I discovered Guinness. Two dumb latino cowboy kids from the American southwest. English guy asks us where we're staying. We tell him the name of the little boarding house. He asks us if there's a Lou in our room. I say, "No, it's just me and my cousin here." He says "no,no, does your room come with a Lou?" I say "you mean some rooms come with people already in them? What kind of country is this??"
Shortly thereafter we discovered that a "loo" is a bathroom
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posted on November 23, 2004 09:52:17 PM new
::He says "no,no, does your room come with a Lou?" I say "you mean some rooms come with people already in them? What kind of country is this??" ::
ROFL!!!! That reminds me of a friend of mine that was on US tour for the first time. When he was in town we were going out to dinner and passed an exit for the "frontage road" that ran along the highway. He went on to explain how wierd it was that there were so many roads across the country named "Frontage" and wierd it was that they all seemed to run along highways.
I helped him clear up that mystery but I'm still curious about why it is that it's always the bass players that are always...um... a little less than brilliant.
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
posted on November 24, 2004 06:53:58 AM new
You're kinder than me fenix. I would have explained that it was the longest road in America, named after the French explorer Gaspard Frontage.
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