<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by thadocta:
... yet those in Australia (mostly) found nothing wrong with it. A few Septic Tanks did though, along with Randy himself (once it was explained that it was an idiosyncratic thing unique to our culture it was all cool.
One would hope though that moderators of a particular forum would be aware of these quirks in a culture.
Dave</font>
He, he. I'll take a bet that 99% of those reading this have no clue what
"Septic Tanks" refers to above, and I am sure not going to be the one to spill the beans!
Even Google is not much use at all.
http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...q=septic+tanks
I recall once causing a FT
RIOT by (quite innocently) referring to someone as being in Mufti. Dave will (hopefully!) know what I mean, and the fact many very large Corporations here have regular 'Mufti Days' was greeted with almost total disbelief.
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[This message has been edited by ozstamps (edited 02-16-2003).]