>>>PPS Nice to have someone to chat to before they wake up over there :-)
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>>Hey! What am I? Chopped liver?!
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>>It's because I'm a brash, loud, ill-mannered American, isn't it? Very sad...
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>Jay, Sorry. I looked in at your room and the curtains were still closed, so I assumed you were still asleep. Besides, you don't usually open your mouth until you've had your twelfth doughnut then put your foot in it :-)

LOL!

Hey, I resemble that remark!

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>PS Liverpool, where I come from, we're all assumed, by the rest of the country, to be "... brash, loud, ill-mannered ...". ("Mersey Mouth", "Scouse Git" are common expressions). Perhaps I'd make a good American?

But didn't those four nice young men come from Liverpool? They were nice. Maybe it's just you... <g>