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26 minutes ago, Sedalia Dave said:

 

I give up.  What kind of sandwich is it???

 

 

Buttered white bread and plain salted potato chips (or crisps or whatever you guys call 'em).

 

Please guys.....tell me this is a thing in the States.....or you don't know what ya' all missin' out on!!!!!

 

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'Tis a wonderful thing ...... :)

   ..... but a little bit better with 'Salt and Vinegar' chips .....  :D

       ..................................................................... and REAL butter ..... :wub:

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10 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said:

 

 

Buttered white bread and plain salted potato chips (or crisps or whatever you guys call 'em).

 

Please guys.....tell me this is a thing in the States.....or you don't know what ya' all missin' out on!!!!!

 

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Sorry, not a thing!

Regards

:FlagAm:  :FlagAm:  :FlagAm:

Gateway Kid

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After you get through eating your potato chip sandwich, do you wipe your mouth with a napkin or a serviette?

 

When the baby smells bad do you change him using a nappy or a diaper?

 

Just part of my endeavor to try to learn Australian. I'm sure I'll never be fluent in it, but possibly I will be able to understand it one day.

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5 hours ago, Gateway Kid SASS# 70038 Life said:

Sorry, not a thing!

Regards

:FlagAm:  :FlagAm:  :FlagAm:

Gateway Kid

           ............ perhaps it should  become such a thing ..... -_-

 

 

5 hours ago, Alpo said:

After you get through eating your potato chip sandwich, do you wipe your mouth with a napkin or a serviette?

          .......... shirt sleeve ....

5 hours ago, Alpo said:

 

When the baby smells bad do you change him using a nappy or a diaper?

                ............. change him for one that doesn't smell bad .......

5 hours ago, Alpo said:

 

Just part of my endeavor to try to learn Australian. I'm sure I'll never be fluent in it, but possibly I will be able to understand it one day.

                                 ............ we'll get you there yet ..........  :ph34r:

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20 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said:

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Where's the bacon???

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6 hours ago, Alpo said:

After you get through eating your potato chip sandwich, do you wipe your mouth with a napkin or a serviette?

 

When the baby smells bad do you change him using a nappy or a diaper?

 

Just part of my endeavor to try to learn Australian. I'm sure I'll never be fluent in it, but possibly I will be able to understand it one day.

 

serviette
nappy

and a car has a boot.....not a trunk!

 

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Sergeant Spencer Gwynne of the 10th Light Horse Regiment sitting on his horse as it lies on the ground in Palestine during WW1.
Many soldiers from the light horse regiments taught their horses to lie down, which was a very useful form of protection if caught in the open under fire from an enemy.
I was taken aback at first when I saw the soldier sitting on the horse as it lies on the ground... until I read they taught the horse to do this. At first I thought the horse had died. This is a very memorable photograph.
On the Western Front during WW1, I have read that the life of a horse was more valuable than a soldier's life.
Lest We Forget.
 
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1 hour ago, Buckshot Bear said:

 

serviette
nappy

and a car has a boot.....not a trunk!

 

Before automobiles were provided with storage capacity in the rear, people would often strap a steamer trunk behind the passenger area. Hence the ‘Trunk’ designation for the storage area built into more modern autos in the USA. Did the British strap a pair of Boots to the back of their early automobiles to carry items? :D

 

CJ

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17 minutes ago, Cactus Jack Calder said:

Before automobiles were provided with storage capacity in the rear, people would often strap a steamer trunk behind the passenger area. Hence the ‘Trunk’ designation for the storage area built into more modern autos in the USA. Did the British strap a pair of Boots to the back of their early automobiles to carry items? :D

 

CJ

If you care to search you will find many classic autos equipped with a trunk that fit a rack on the back If you look deeper, there is a lot of info about different trunks for travel, car, rail or ocean liner.  You can even get a glimpse in one of the Colonel's books.

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19 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said:

 

 

Buttered white bread and plain salted potato chips (or crisps or whatever you guys call 'em).

 

Please guys.....tell me this is a thing in the States.....or you don't know what ya' all missin' out on!!!!!

 

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It is more common here to use  Pringles or Lay's potato chips as a condiment on the sandwich.  Maybe a ham sandwich with lettuce, tomato, and potato chips or a cheeseburger with lettuce, tomato, and BBQ potato chip.

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51 minutes ago, Cactus Jack Calder said:

Before automobiles were provided with storage capacity in the rear, people would often strap a steamer trunk behind the passenger area. Hence the ‘Trunk’ designation for the storage area built into more modern autos in the USA. Did the British strap a pair of Boots to the back of their early automobiles to carry items? :D

 

CJ

The luggage area on the back of a stagecoach was generally made of leather. Therefore - the boot. They were using coaches to get around in England hundreds of years before they started using them in America. So for centuries they stored the luggage in the boot. Moving the term to automobiles makes perfect sense.

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Now for hood and bonnet.

 

We call the piece that covers the engine the hood. I believe that is because you could push it back out of the way to get to the engine, just like you could push the hood back on your winter coat.

 

The Brits refer to that same piece as the bonnet, and once again I believe is because it could be removed easily, so you can get to the engine.

 

Now we call the top of the passenger compartment the roof. For years I believed that the Brits called the top of the passenger compartment the hood, but I was corrected on that a couple of years back. I was told that "the hood" only applies if it's a convertible. And once again that makes sense. Because with a convertible you can push the roof back out of the way, just like you could a hood.

 

But if it's only a hood if it's on a convertible, I have no idea what they call the hardtop on a sedan.

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11 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said:

MAIL COACH CROSSING THE BLUE MOUNTAINS -1850’s

 

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I found this a little hard to believe.

 

There are ripples in the water. The water is moving. The exposure time for a photograph in the 1850s would be close to a minute. You would not be able to see the ripples. They would be a blur. Possibly the people could hold their pose for that time, but a horse that didn't shake his head or flick an ear?

 

1870s maybe, but I doubt the 1850s.

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44 minutes ago, Alpo said:

I found this a little hard to believe.

 

There are ripples in the water. The water is moving. The exposure time for a photograph in the 1850s would be close to a minute. You would not be able to see the ripples. They would be a blur. Possibly the people could hold their pose for that time, but a horse that didn't shake his head or flick an ear?

 

1870s maybe, but I doubt the 1850s.

 

Don't know about the photo specifics, but I did have some doubts on the coach being that old. 

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