Re: Victorian boink?

msb@xxxxxxx (Mark Brader) writes:

Mark Brader:
And I assumed Sara was going to Melbourne. "Victoria boink" would be
for BC. "Victorian" looks the way a British English speaker would get
it wrong. Sara has lived in four countries, it says; what were they?

Sara Lorimer:
The USA, Finland, Denmark, and Jamaica.

A-*ha*! :-)

But she didn't ask "Where's the spoon?"

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