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 Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 8:49 am
Haha. How weird.
What do you call chips, then?
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Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 9:42 am
Whatever we want; they can't hear us.
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Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 3:44 pm
And power-hungry Slytherin loved those of great ambition...|> ---|You mean chips as in the sort you get with fish and chips? We call those chips or hot chips.
And now I feel like chips, but I can't because I'm fasting and can't eat until after sunset today.|--- <|Slytherin Pride!
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Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 7:47 pm
So this is one area where Australia hasn't tried to impersonate America?
Everyone knows they're called ze fwench fries.
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Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 7:55 pm
Take Me Out Haha. How weird.
What do you call chips, then? You say Crisps, we say chips You say Chips, we say fries (or French fries/French fried potatoes)
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Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 8:19 pm
And power-hungry Slytherin loved those of great ambition...|> ---|They're called fries at fast food places like McDonalds, but chips everywhere else.|--- <|Slytherin Pride!
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Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 5:06 am
Well obviously you're all copying England anyway. So they're crisps and chips.
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Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 12:32 pm
American invented the potato chip. So we get to name it.
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Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 3:28 pm
And power-hungry Slytherin loved those of great ambition...|> ---|Ah, but England is where all the good things come from, right, Jacky? I mean, there was Shakespeare, Wilde, J.K. Rowling, Doctor Who...
(Actually, I have a huge list of Awesome Things that have Come Out of England, or at Least the United Kingdom. I recited it to one of my sisters a few nights ago.)|--- <|Slytherin Pride!
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Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 11:40 pm
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Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 6:41 am
How could you not mention MONTY PYTHON?
America gave us Futurama.
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Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 3:29 pm
And power-hungry Slytherin loved those of great ambition...|> ---|Monty Python is also on that list! I just didn't say the whole thing.
Let's see...there's also Enid Blyton (who I loved as a kid), Alice in Wonderland, Diana Wynne Jones, Discworld, the original The Office...hmmm...C.S. Lewis (?), Mr Darcy...
(I'll think of more later.)|--- <|Slytherin Pride!
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Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 4:03 pm
Yes, but Scranton boasts the US version. One of the episodes even used a University class room (or one made up to look just like Brennan 22 cool .
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Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 4:12 pm
I gotta go with England here. xD
England gave me practically all of my favorite bands (and the frontman of one of my favorites)
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Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 5:07 pm
And power-hungry Slytherin loved those of great ambition...|> ---|Mooby: I love the American version of The Office, but it's still based on an English original (which I have not seen but which has Ricky Gervais in it so it can't be bad, can it?)
(Plus, how could you not love those UK accents?)|--- <|Slytherin Pride!
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