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11 Apr 2008, 7:08 am

Kalister kats!

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11 Apr 2008, 12:10 pm

damn Kalister, is he banned already? :lol:

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11 Apr 2008, 12:13 pm

Well he does have a red x in his avatar and he left his kats behind.

There may be a strong possibility.

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11 Apr 2008, 12:44 pm

:?:

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11 Apr 2008, 3:32 pm

MR_BOGAN wrote:

chrr! means agreement.

I'd never heard that before.

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11 Apr 2008, 3:34 pm

Me neither and I even tried looking it up.

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12 Apr 2008, 2:26 am

Greyhound wrote:

MR_BOGAN wrote:

chrr! means agreement.

I'd never heard that before.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfQfYdVIkPU[/youtube]

Frankly I am shocked that Sir Howard Morrison claims he invented chur.

Chur is the correctly spelling

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12 Apr 2008, 7:50 am

Okay...

I have never heard anyone use that word before.

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12 Apr 2008, 8:02 am

It's a word that is used in New Zealand.

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12 Apr 2008, 3:34 pm

Well that explains everything.

Another Q about New Zealand.

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12 Apr 2008, 3:54 pm

There needs to be a "Factoids R Us" thread somewhere.

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12 Apr 2008, 3:59 pm

computerlove wrote:

spudnik wrote:

It makes more sense to switch over, but it will be very difficult, remember NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter, and their use of English units instead of metric units, metric even confuses Rocket Scientist

NASA and gringo scientists have been using the metric system for a long time, I didn't know about the Mars climate Orbiter, damn! 128 million dollars!

This was a few days back, but just thought I'd clarify- COLORADO used the wrong system. Here in California, JPL used the metric system as usual for NASA. The inconsistency messed up the project, but us California Gringos knew what was up.

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12 Apr 2008, 6:05 pm

I work in the Freight business,which is really
mixed up.If you send something by road it
goes in a 13.5 metre trailer.If you send it by
sea it goes in a 40 foot container.In fact the
seafreight community worldwide uses the
Imperial lengths of 40 and 20 feet as standard,
even though they use metres for other purposes.

BTW I heard somewhere that the term
'Gringo' came about when Mexican soldiers
used to hear their American counterparts
around the campfire singing
'Green Grow the rushes oh ! '

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12 Apr 2008, 6:17 pm

Wow, iamnotaparakeet's right, we really do need a Factoids R Us thread!

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12 Apr 2008, 9:12 pm

'cause this is AMURIKA!

If we adopt the metric system, the terrorists have won.

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