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TheMercenary 11-02-2007 07:41 PM
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Originally Posted by binky (Post 403036)
No the real terror for me was when my kids realized that in our new neighborhood(new town), only about 1% of people give out candy. WTF?
Why?

DanaC 11-03-2007 07:55 PM
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My ex told me that years ago he and his roommate at the time ran out of candy. They started dropping potatos into the kids' bags. Can't you imagine kids going home to check their booty and wondering who in the heck gave them a raw potato?
Kids here examine what you are giving them at the time.

Cloud 11-04-2007 09:16 AM
Did y'all (in the States) remember to Fall Back last night?

I didn't.

ZenGum 11-04-2007 09:22 AM
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Originally Posted by smurfalicious (Post 402847)
a friend of mine always had 2 bowls - one with candy for the little kids, and one with rubbers in assorted colors for the "big" kids
In Australia, "rubber" means eraser, as many a US exchange student has learned only after hearing a rather startling request to borrow in the middle of a lecture.

DanaC 11-04-2007 11:27 AM
Means that in the UK too.

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Did y'all (in the States) remember to Fall Back last night?
Care to translate for the non americans? :)

bluecuracao 11-04-2007 11:39 AM
"Fall Back"--we set our clocks an hour back in the fall (as opposed to "Spring Ahead," when we set our clocks an hour ahead in...you guessed it...the spring).

The evening newspeople always say to do it before going to bed on Saturday night.

Clodfobble 11-04-2007 01:08 PM
We remembered. The kids' biological clocks, not so much. It'll take several days for us to shift mealtimes back up to where they "should" be.

DanaC 11-04-2007 01:39 PM
Ahhh. I see. We don't have a catchy phrase for ours. Ours is referrd to as "clocks go back".

Cloud 11-04-2007 02:45 PM
Spring ahead? I say Spring forward.

Fall back/Spring forward. Get it? You have our permission to adopt said catchy phrases, kay?

Clodfobble 11-04-2007 03:24 PM
I'm partial to syllabic parallelism, myself.

Spring up.
Fall back.

It's a nice one-two, one-two rhythm. You elitist intellectuals can just keep your "ahead" and "forward."

Cloud 11-04-2007 03:27 PM
that doesn't scan, Clod. If you want to spring up, it would be fall down.

. . .

Ow!

I've fallen down and can't spring up!

monster 11-04-2007 03:30 PM
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Originally Posted by DanaC (Post 403325)
Ahhh. I see. We don't have a catchy phrase for ours. Ours is referrd to as "clocks go back".
I was brought up with Spring Forward, Fall Back.

DanaC 11-04-2007 03:56 PM
Really? I haven't heard it before.

monster 11-04-2007 04:04 PM
That was how I learned that Americans said Fall to mean Autumn.

DanaC 11-04-2007 04:06 PM
Ahhh. I thought you were saying it was an English expression :P


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