Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: I never thought it would happen

...but I've killed the What's a guinea worth-thread.
I've already got a handful with the Euro :-)
-- 
Isa
Work like you don't need money,
Love like you've never been hurt,
And dance like no one's watching
http://web.tiscali.it/alfabeto_auschwitz/index.htm

 I've already got a handful with the Euro :-)
Not allergic to nickel, I hope?
Haven't got a hole in your purse big enough to lose your 1 and 2 cent
coins, apparently disliked in Italy because of their small size?
Not breaking your back carrying all these coins, after a life of
having had feather-light banknotes for units as small as 1000 lire
(ca. 50 cents)?
Nevertheless, you have my sympathy, but young at heart as you are you
will soon get used to the new money. Pity, instead, the octogenarians
and older people.
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Xakero

but young at heart as you are...
Waddyamean "at heart"?
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 :-)
I know it is wrong, in newsgroups, to start imagining things, but I
imagine your chronological age to be somewhere between 20 and 60,
closer to 60 than to 20, but that at heart you are much closer to 20
than to 60, most of the time.
I could be wrong, of course, as I often am.
Those who had the good fortune of meeting you at the Grande Raduno
would be in a better postion to judge, but why should they tell? Where
would otherwise be the incentive for others to join in the next
Raduno?
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Xakero

Raduno?
You be the judge of your incentive, *now* :-)))
(But if you are under 40, I will be very disappointed...)
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 (But if you are under 40, I will be very disappointed...)
No, there would be no cause for disappointment, by that standard. 
Are you free for tea at the Savoy in London on 05.02.2002, probably
the nearest I shall get to Italy within the next six months, or for a
drink in the Long Bar of the Raffles in Singapore the day after
Chinese New Year?
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Xakero

Chinese New Year?
When is Chinese New Year?
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 When is Chinese New Year?
Shucks, now you blew it, killed the romance :-)
But to answer your question: This year, on the 12th of February,
starting the year of the horse (I'm a monkey, myself, the same as you,
unless you were born before 30 January)
http://www.chinapage.com/newyear.html
http://found.cs.nyu.edu/liaos/noshock/zodiac/monkey.html
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Xakero

unless you were born before 30 January)
I was born on 14th, same month, Isa. I'm a Tiger, though ;p
Ciao,
Fab
PS. I guess I'm not even near to being "in topic"... oops, sorry  :)
Fab

PS. I guess I'm not even near to being "in topic"... oops, sorry  :)
Over here, if it's in English, it's in topic :-)
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unless you were born before 30 January)
Oh, no. 6 June. A monkey, and a Gemini.
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 LOL why ask me out on a public forum in the first place?
Aye, but while the "day after Chinese New Year" was and remains a
valid option my question was at the same time intended to cause you to
reveal the degree of your possible romantic inclination towards me:
Mirror, mirror on the wall, does she love me enough to go to the
trouble of looking up the date for Chinese New Year?
...Hence my "Shucks".
Your heart-broken
Xakero

 trouble of looking up the date for Chinese New Year?
Aria, bello...
C'ero prima io.
: )
saluti,
Peltio
Still wondering about that prince sentence... : /
P.S.
Er...Vince... just kidding, ok?
Ok, uhu?
Ok?

 Ok?
Vince? And who might he be? Shall I have due duel him for Isa, too :-)
And in the end there probably will come Frank with his rusty sword.
Better get my tetanus shot quickly.
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Xakero

 ... and a Gemini.
A Gemini... so am I. Things are getting scarier and scarier.
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Xakero

 A monkey...
Having outed you as a calendrically Chinese (or Chinese calendrical?)
monkey it is but fair that I tell you that there are monkeys... and
monkeys.
There is the shy, timid type, like me, and then there are, among the
10 different types (10 celestial stems), the rough-metal monkeys of
1968 who go straight for the jugular... uhm, no, that was not a good
simile, I think. For the proffered tea cup, mayhap?
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Xakero

Your heart-broken
Oh dear. Now he's trying to get me to foot his cardiologist's bill.
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Better get my tetanus shot quickly.
Nice to be popular :-)
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A Gemini... so am I. Things are getting scarier and scarier.
Spooky, possum, spooky...
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Better get my tetanus shot quickly.
1. The only rusty thing I have is my hair. That's why my mates back in
Australia pronounced my last name "Rust-colour"
2. Rather than getting your tetanus shot, you should watch all the
movies with Fred Astaire. You know Queen Isa loves to dance (like no
one's watching, though), and I bet I can give you a hard time on this
kind of duel.
:o)))
--
Ciao
Frank

Nice to be popular :-)
That's an understatement, my Queen, and you know it.
:o)
-- 
Ciao
Frank-LIE(nchanted)A

For the proffered tea cup, mayhap?
Mmm... afraid I will have to stand you up. Proffer peanuts, get
monkeys. (Roooaaar!)
(Thanks a lot, anyway. Travel safely and have a good time on the
road.)
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 me instead of playing guessing games...? 
Touché!
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Xakero

Touché!
Oh, no. You'll notice, when *that* happens ;-)
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