View Full Version : Merry Christmas to you limeys. ;)
NorCalCoug
12-25-2002, 12:30 AM
Just dropping by to wish you all a Merry Christmas. I've still 4 and a half hours to go for mine. :)
:wave:
May you and yours have a wonderful holiday. :)
Cliverea
12-25-2002, 06:14 AM
Hey thanks Mike, and here's a Merry Christmas to all our Yankee friends;)
Blackadder
12-25-2002, 07:25 AM
Merry Christmas Mike, have a good one :)
:biggrin:A prize if you can tell why the Yanks call us Limey's!!!! Merry x-mas.
BlackV6UK
12-25-2002, 05:24 PM
Originally posted by: NARD
:biggrin:A prize if you can tell why the Yanks call us Limey's!!!! Merry x-mas.
The Australians started it. Apparently in the days when convicts were sent there, English were called Limeys as they ate limes to ward off scurvy on the voyage.
Pommys has a similar origin (due to eating pommegranetes).