Martin Gregorie wrote:
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?

They make beds, right? ;-)



Shawn