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Date Posted: 18:30:22 05/25/03 Sun
Author: Miss Cam
Subject: Cricket and Euronsong
In reply to: Tilly 's message, "Re: Here's an expression I haven't used in a long time: Get a GRIP!" on 17:56:31 05/25/03 Sun

>
>>*blinks*
>>I think that was a compliment...
>
>'Twas. ^_^

Awww.
And just yesterday your Archnemesis called me 'gracious' and an aboriginal journalist told me he wished I'd stick around in Australia as people like me would be good for the country (I was very touched). Must be 'compliment Cam week'.

>>I'm swell, Tilly. Just interviewed the Lord Mayor of
>>Brisbane and watched Turkey win the Eurosong with
>>Norway finishing 4th (you poor, Eurosong-deprived
>>Americans *pats*).
>
>Eurosong? Eh? You lost me.

Heh. Eurosong is the annual Eurovisin song contest, wherein 26 European countries all contribute one unique song (usually picked in a national contest) and then have televoting to decide which is the best. Each country gives points to the ten most voted for songs by their callers (can't vote for themselves, obviously) and the song with most points wins (duh). It's hours of cheesy fun, as... well, the standard is not always that great on all songs. And the fashions are hidious. This year one artist had a blue smurf gymnast with him on stage. I kid you not. And you Americans are missing out.

>>How're yourself?
>
>Psyched, excited, happy, terrified. Something happened
>today that's going to drastically change my life in
>some way that I've been dreaming about for a long
>time--but only if I play my cards right and have a
>stroke of luck. ^___^

Life changing, eh? Moments when you realise your life is about to go in another direction are always very conflicting because of equal amounts of terror and terrificness. Hopefully, luck shall be on your side. Fingers crossed. About to change my life myself, as I'm about to graduate, so I have a sense of what you must be feeling. Eek and yay, both.

>
>>You know, for a moment there I read 'howzit' as
>>'howzat' and started wondering when you started
>>watching cricket...
>
>Howzat=cricket? You lost me again. ^_^ "Howzit" =
>pidgin English. I'm all about Hawai'i today. ^______^

'Howzat' is what the crowd cry whenever there's a good run in cricket (I think). It's a cricket term, I'd never heard of it before I came to Australia.

Ah, pidgin English. I thought it might be slang that I didn't know. All my slang's been Aussie-fied of late (fair dinkum, mate)

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