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For me,makes it a bit chummier,you know the mate thing 
DYdamo wrote:Dorje wrote:
since we live in a moving to the right capitalist ecconomy ourselves and hart has marketed himself quite well here, one have to suggest DY, that it is also very/typically australian to promote ones product
I have no problem with self promotion! What pisses me off is
the arrogance of "mine's bigger/better/faster/cheaper/best". Show me
where Bruce has posted a message flogging his boards. He gladly answers anyone's questions without ramming his product down their throats or using the opportunity to take out a full page Ad!.
'' so where was the origin of the acronym POHM or POHMie developed? heh! heh! and does it apply to all british commonwelth contries or just aussieland and kiwiland?Word History: The origin of Yankee has been the subject of much debate, but the most likely source is the Dutch name Janke, meaning "little Jan" or "little John," a nickname that dates back to the 1680s. Perhaps because it was used as the name of pirates, the name Yankee came to be used as a term of contempt. It was used this way in the 1750s by General James Wolfe, the British general who secured British domination of North America by defeating the French at Quebec. The name may have been applied to New Englanders as an extension of an original use referring to Dutch settlers living along the Hudson River. Whatever the reason, Yankee is first recorded in 1765 as a name for an inhabitant of New England. The first recorded use of the term by the British to refer to Americans in general appears in the 1780s, in a letter by Lord Horatio Nelson, no less. Around the same time it began to be abbreviated to Yank. During the American Revolution, American soldiers adopted this term of derision as a term of national pride. The derisive use nonetheless remained alive and even intensified in the South during the Civil War, when it referred not to all Americans but to those loyal to the Union. Now the term carries less emotionexcept of course for baseball fans.
some obviously didnt 
