Posted on 06/21/2005 4:45:09 PM PDT by ohioWfan
Today, President Bush met with Vietnamese Prime Minister, Phan Van Khai in the Oval Office. Khai is visiting Washington to talk with the President about helping Vietnam join the World Trade Organization. It is the first such visit of a Vietnamese leader since the end of the war. He then addressed the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting via satellite (the text of which is given here ).
The President also met with Republican leaders in the White House at a luncheon, accepting a compromise on Social Security, and refusing to back down on the nomination of John Bolton, urging Bill Frist to continue pushing for an up or down vote for Bolton.
This afternoon, the President attended the swearing in ceremony of Dr. Ben S. Bernanke as new Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Building in the White House complex.
Enjoy your trip to Sanity Island and the Daily Dose!!
Hmmm... my dad is from Virginia and HE says kiver. My grandmother had an accent just like Pat Robertson's.
The gal in the back with the big purse
That threw me then I realised what you call a purse we call a bag, handbag or shoulder bag. Two nations divided by a common language LOL
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In Baltimore we still say "pocketbook" for purse/bag/etc.
Have you ever heard that word? I don't know why we say it.
Oh good grief, you guys have made me go and do it!! I've reached for the last Klondike bar. Now I'm doomed... DOOMED!
doomed
Hmmm... my dad is from Virginia and HE says kiver
What County?
My feelings exactly about VN .. I'm real real real ambivalent about that ..doesn't leave a good taste .. and on another subject, odd they would schedule this without Condi being there.
Indeed so! Mr.FF had the most confused look on his face when he first heard my dad pronounce "cow"
King George County, just east of Fredericksburg
But my grandmother was born in Louisa County
VN as long as I can remember, has always been an enemy....knew far too many guys who fought there, it's hard for me to think otherwise...
If Mr FF sounds like my NJ relatives and remember they
are from the same countys. he can't laugh :-)
Third is touyid.
Yes I have had that at Macdonald's. When I was little a milk shake was just milk and a flavour normally strawberry, raspberry or bananna whisked so that it was frothy but no ice cream in it.
We also had what we call ice cream soda which is a fizzy drink such as coke, lemonade, cream soda etc with a scoop of ice cream in it.
Slush puppies I always thought was American this is a drink which is made of crushed ice and then a syrup flavouring poured over it. The ice is crushed is sort crushed and mixed in a machine which normally has the word slush puppy on it.
No a pocket book to me a little note book that you make notes in while you are out and about and fits into top pocket of your jacket.
What is a Klondike bar?
Hi Ohio, checking in.
I'll be right back. I need to take a short walk to the 7-Eleven store that is 100 meters away.
Mr.FF isn't that bad! lol
His sister and, to a lesser extent, his brother have awful metro-NY/NJ accents. I never thought his accent was too bad. But I'm reminded of when we were in Cape May, NJ (extreme southeastern tip) a few years ago, we were in a restaurant and one of the waiters asked if he was from New York. Mr.FF got very insulted and said NO! The waiter said he had an accent and it really ruined Mr.FF's evening. Occasionally he does say a word that tells where he grew up, but really he's not that bad.
Mr.FF is funny when he tries to pronounce "cow" like my dad does, he just can't do it! It comes out "coo"
Wonder if that's an east coast thing?
I need to take a short walk to the 7-Eleven store that is 100 meters away.
Pick me up one too while you are there.
My 7-11 is 2 1/2 blocks away.
My brother-in-law lives in southern California, and when his kids were little they always wanted slush puppies! Just like you describe them snugs. They sold them at the local gas station.
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