G'day Peter: Love that Aussie humor! Here is Israel they contribute much, like "Australian Rules" football (Peter, explain this to the list...) In Israel all us native English speakers are known as "Anglo-Saxons." Go figure... Thanks, sport. :) Josh P.S. Seriously (I know that's hard for Aussies), is Peter right that they are synonyms? At 12:45 01/06/00 , Peter Treby wrote: >Joshua asks "...the difference between bungee cord and shock cord?" >Bungee cord is tied to the ankles of daring tourists on bridges near >Queenstown, >New Zealand. The tourist is then flung off the bridge and hurtles downwards >towards the river below, eventually bouncing like a yo-yo. They pay for this >experience! >Shock cord is tied to the genitalia of certain daring tourists in.... >Wait, I think bungee cord and shock cord are actually synonyms. >Sorry, PT. ============================================================================== Dr. Joshua Teitelbaum, Research Fellow Tel: [972] 3-640-6448 Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and Fax: [972] 3-641-5802 African Studies Tel Aviv University Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978 Israel E-mail:teitelba_at_ccsg.tau.ac.il www.dayan.org ============================================================================== *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Jun 01 2000 - 04:58:46 PDT
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