On Wed, 13 May 2015 21:56:15 +0100, Stephen wrote:

> On 13/05/2015 21:11, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Wed, 13 May 2015 20:05:56 +0100, Stephen wrote:
>>
>>>>> Sorry I forgot Americans don't do irony.
>>>>
>>>> We do Steel. ;)
>>>>
>>>>
>>> You also mangle pronunciation as well as spelling.
>>
>> Well, the origins of Heavy Metal are 'mucan in nature, as I understand
>> it (Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath, etc.)
>>
>>
> I thought you meant steal as in steal words from other languages. My
> mistake.
> 
> Sorry, you lost me with the switch to music.

I was borrowing a little bit from Cockney Rhyming Slang, but without the 
slang bit.

Irony -> Iron, Iron -> Steel (as in metal, steel production was pretty 
big in states like Pennsylvania), Steel -> Metal (to clarify), and then 
Metal -> Heavy Metal music.

The joke isn't funny once explained, sadly.  I suppose I could have also 
gone Steel -> Law & Order: UK (but then you'd have to know that one of 
the CPS prosecutors' names was James Steel, and given that it's a 
programme with US roots anyways, it wouldn't have been as clever).

>>>>> Exactement!
>>>>
>>>> But I thought we'd established that I'm not the typical 'murcan. ;)
>>>>
>>>>
>>> You must carry the sins of your nation.
>>
>> Pah.  If I must carry the sins of mine, you must carry the sins of
>> yours - and you have a longer history. ;)
>>
>>
> And I do, also for the sins of recent history.
> I hereby apologise to the world for the British involvement in the
> colonisation of the New World and the Scottish settlers who became
> rednecks.

You could go for something even more current than that - maybe even 
something that happened late last week. ;)

>>> Have you heard/seen Reg D. Hunter?
>>
>> Can't say I have.
>>
>>
> He is very funny with old world southern manners and charm.

I'll have to check him out.

>>> He is so ironic when he says that Americans don't do irony. :-)
>>
>> Fe. ;)
>>
>>
> Are we talking about metals again?
> 
> 1 Corinthians 13

You like to plumbum with your chin, don't you? ;)

Jim

-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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