tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post6821619338621761882..comments2024-03-29T11:14:06.299+13:00Comments on AmeriNZ Blog: AmeriNZ 83 - Normal DayArthur Schenckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10568299067544221996noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post-30761267174807329122008-04-15T16:08:00.000+12:002008-04-15T16:08:00.000+12:00Archerr: I loves me some normal days...There won't...<B>Archerr: </B>I loves me some normal days...<BR/><BR/>There won't be a tax on butter, but saying "margarine" that way taxes me. It's just a symptom of how I've had to adapt to Kiwi English.<BR/><BR/><B>Roger: </B>Thanks for the links. It's probably more accurate to say it's more than I <I>should</I> know--my head is stuffed too full of often useless information as it is. Plenty of people will agree to that, I'm sure.<BR/><BR/><B>Kalvin: </B>We don't have Crisco here, though there are similar things. The only time we see anti-China tirades is when MPs from one of the parties in Parliament start speaking...Arthur Schenckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10568299067544221996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post-80790474471658695382008-04-11T12:50:00.000+12:002008-04-11T12:50:00.000+12:00I wonder if there would be a tax on Crisco. ;) T...I wonder if there would be a tax on Crisco. ;) The China thing seems weird as well. And to think I was just yesterday watching people running through the streets with and blocking traffic yelling anti-china slogans. Sigh...Kalv1nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12105726258904259151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post-43146757697810901382008-04-11T07:02:00.000+12:002008-04-11T07:02:00.000+12:00More on this topic than you probably want. Definit...More on this topic than you probably want. Definition: http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?oleomargarine and http://dictionary.die.net/oleomargarine; Court case - The manufacture of artificially colored oleomargarine may be prohibited by a free government without a violation of fundamental rights...<BR/>http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0195_0027_ZS.htmlRoger Owen Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05298172138307632062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post-23071046707745737482008-04-11T06:34:00.000+12:002008-04-11T06:34:00.000+12:00I thought oleo and margarine were the same thing. ...I thought oleo and margarine were the same thing. In fact, as I recalled, it used to be called oleomargarine. I see that there are some nuanced differences: http://eh.net/Clio/Conferences/ASSA/Jan_92/Dupre%20AbstractRoger Owen Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05298172138307632062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post-9815584059421698432008-04-10T08:47:00.000+12:002008-04-10T08:47:00.000+12:00It's nice to have a normal day from time to time.T...It's nice to have a normal day from time to time.<BR/><BR/>That's such an odd story about the butter. I can't imagine having a weird tax on butter. And that story about the margarine when you were younger was weird too. I hadn't heard that before. Oh, and I haven't heard margarine said like that before....margarINEAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com