No steer horns on the hood, preferably of a convertible Cadillac or an American pickup? Now you’ve gone and shattered another of my illusions. Next you’ll be telling me that there are actually some Democrats in Texas or that they’ve heard of vegetarian food.
Do you sing Duetshland uber alles in Synagogues too?
“Members of the United Nations, I present the Rwandan delegates speaking for the Hutsi and Tutu peoples…”
My brother thinks Australians speak German.
Missed opportunity again: “…but we’ve got ALPS!”
…assuming said Austrian girl was well endowed, anyway…
I dunno, I think saying “konichiwa” to the Chinese consul general would be easier than saying “zdravstvuite” to anybody.
If it makes you feel better, Dewey Finn, my father told the tale of hitchhiking home from college and getting picked up by a good ol’ boy in his Caddie convertible with steer horns on the hood, a fifth between his knees, and the honeymoon couple going at it in the back seat. :eek: But this happened in 1940 or so, so times may have changed a bit since then.
And when I turned 18, back before Texas turned Republican, I got a letter from my Grandpappy advising me to “Vote for anybody you like – as long as you vote straight Democratic!”
The Texas stereotypes, at least, did have some basis in fact…
On the same note don’t make a big deal of complimenting the Chinese consul on his country’s delicious Chirazushi. If you do insist on going off like this, don’t wait until he points out that Chirazushi is actually a Japanese dish and then say “Chinese, Japanese, what’s the difference?” Or at least don’t give him a glass of plum wine as a peace offering.
Also don’t play the Australian or British Guessing Game ™ with strangers who have a UK accent. They don’t like it when you guess wrong. :smack:
Iceberg, Goldberg, what’s the difference?
How can someone be so otostannous as not to be able to tell UK English from Australian English? 
What the heck does ‘otostannous’ mean? I’ve looked at 2 online dictionaries…nada.
And that UK/Aussie/S. African thing might seem simple to you, but I can say from experience that it is very tough (after almost 9 years of mixing in those crowds and 6 working with S. Africans). Y’alls English is hard to pin-down. Especially a Cape Town-er emigre to Sydney that studied in Cambridge…
-Tcat
My rule of thumb is if the person sounds like an American trying to speak in a UK accent, that it’s an Aussie.
I haven’t been wrong yet.
Brewaking it down:
Oto = ear
Stannous = relating to tin
Tin ear?
Yup. Completely made-up word on my part, but I was confident someone would puzzle out the roots pretty quickly. 
Bless y’all. Must be something going around.
Oh, yeah, and never suggest to a Guamanian that Guam is an American colony.
I got it, anyway.
Obviously there’s plenty of uniquely Australian slang, but on a purely phonetic basis, a lot Australians have accents that sound pretty indistinguishable from British to me. I dunno - maybe Australian accents sound very distinct to Brits, but you sound fairly similar to one another. I doubt I could tell an English-speaking South African apart from a Brit either.
Especially when it’s a cute girl from South Africa. Boy did I ever start THAT conversation off on the wrong foot. :smack:
Oh, and you DO see lots of folks in pickups and cowboy hats in Texas, you just have to hang out in the right towns. Of course, I live in a town where there is more than one bar with a wooden porch and western style swinging doors.
What’s fun is trying to perpetuate these stereotypes though. I remember living in rural Oklahoma and trying to convince people there (with varying degrees of sucess) that in Western Texas, we have these large rabbits with antlers that we call Jackalopes. They usually start to key into the fact that I’m pulling their leg when I get to the part about saddling them and herding cattle.
It’s like ferrognathus. Y’know, “steely-jawed.”
Yes, I know it’s actually iron
HAH!
I am giggling over this answer for some inexplicable reason.
This is right up there with the doper who had the faux pas in german as a kid and said, " I shit the naked lady!"
Nah, that’s just the kangaroos.