Re: What's the best IDE card for the Apple II?

[alawther@spammenot.mac.com (Anthony Lawther)]

Polymorph <polymorph@a2central.com.remove-mkq-this> wrote:

>   To: Mark McDougall
> Mark McDougall wrote:
> >>> Crikey
> >> You should have used "strewth". ;-)
> > 
> > BTW we Aussies don't actually use these words when speaking to 
> > one-another, only tourists! ;)
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> 
> Too right cobber! Stone the crows, but you're right! Lets throw another
> shrimp on the barbie!  ;-)
> 
> This is added proof of Mark's statement - we have prawns in Oz not 
> shrimp, yet the rest of the world think we throw shrimp on the barbie on
> a regular basis... we can thank Mr Hogan for that one. :-)

Well, we have the producers of that commercial to thank anyway.

What we in Australia call prawns are mostly called shrimp by North
Americans, and as the ad in question was aimed at North America they
chose the term that was familiar to the intended audience.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrimp

The difference is only really of interest to biologists... I'm sure they
taste the same.

> 
> Cheers,
> Mike

Regards,
Anthony.