"Outlandings" discussion
jcarlyle wrote:
It's Shaw's "two countries divided by a common language" again,
Martin. In aviation parlance over here, CAP means Civil Air Patrol,
the guys who go out searching for overdue pilots.
Gottit - I thought forgot the US aviation meaning of the TLA, couldn't
work it out, and thought this must be some new-fangled equivalent of WAG
and that Mr. Cherokee wanted to combine retrieval with a camping trip.
Hence the rather lame attempt at a joke.
It's easy to get confused. A few weeks ago, you started a post with
"snap".
I thought snap was a game that was played throughout the card-playing
world. Rather like Monopoly and the board-game world.
What is the US English equivalent of "Snap!"? I can't think of one
apart from "Right!".
Another confusing point was a reference to Noddy in
another posting - Wikipedia explained that over here we'd use Mickey
Mouse. Finally, there's that Rube Goldberg/Heath Robinson thing...
Funny how the same ideas can have two completely different names. Still,
at least Murphy is known everywhere. Or does he have different names in
other languages?
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